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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Charles Frederick Fell Charitable Fund

To support charities engaged in the advancement of medical research or teaching the preservation or the promotion of wildlife and national resources.

C$86k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$6,325
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKE SIMCOE REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$6,398
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$6,398
NORTHERN ON SCHOOL OF MEDICINEC$6,398
RIDEAU VALLEY CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$6,325
ST JOSEPHS HEALTH CENTREC$6,325
ONTARIO SHORES CNTR FOR MENTAL HEALTHC$6,325
ONTARIO NATUREC$6,325
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCEC$6,325
U OF NORTHERN BC. NORTHERN MEDICAL PROGRAMC$6,325
MS CANADAC$6,049
MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCHC$6,049
NORTHUMBERLAND LAND TRUSTC$6,049
CANADIAN CANOE FOUNDATIONC$6,049
MIND YOUR PLASTICC$5,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$86k · 5 repeat orgsC$205k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
18

Total granted

C$86k
C$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$86k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$32k · revenue +59%
  • GF
    GREENBELT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$14k · revenue +11%
  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA
    2× · 2017–2021 · C$13k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • EB
    ESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2021 · C$7k · revenue +11%
  • DL
    DALLA LANA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC
    one grant, 2021 · C$7k · revenue +8%
  • GM
    G MAGNOTTA FOUNDATION FOR VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES
    one grant, 2021 · C$7k · revenue -61%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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2
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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3
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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4
Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario

1. Research to advance the conservation of songbird species at risk in agricultural landscapes; and 2. Research to improve our understanding of the distribution abundance and productivity of songbird species at risk.

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5
The David Suzuki Foundation

The David Suzuki Foundation works through science and education to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life now and for the future.

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6
The Halton Region Conservation Authority

Conservation Halton is a community based environmental agency that protects restores and manages the watershed's conservation areas forests creeks Niagara Escarpment lands source water protection sites and biodiversity through science…

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7
Freshwater Conservation Canada

Freshwater conservation canada is committed to conserving protecting and restoring canada's freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations. programs and projects are delivered by our professional…

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8
Sci Canada Foundation

Conservation efforts through conducting surveys anti-poaching programs predation studies wildlife restoration and harvest initiatives programs education through scholarship programs for college students apprentice hunter programs support…

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9
World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada

World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…

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10
Biological Survey of Canada

1) To identify and address gaps in knowledge of Canada's biological diversity. 2) To promote the importance of fundamental taxonomic research on Canada's species. 3) To promote awareness of the values and vulnerabilities of Canada's…

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11
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…

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12
Natureserve Canada

The preservation of the natural environment by undertaking supporting and supervising research made available to the public.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rideau Valley Conservation Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hanover and District Hospital Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH — C$32,479 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENBELT FOUNDATION — C$13,609 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$13,335 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$13,202 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LUNG ASSOCIATION-ONTARIO OTTAWA — C$13,171 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCY — C$7,039 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLA LANA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC — C$7,039 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetG MAGNOTTA FOUNDATION FOR VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES — C$7,039 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHANOVER & DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$7,039 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOTTAWA RIVERKEEPER — C$6,601 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY - YORK REGION — C$6,601 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HALTON REGION CONSERVATION — C$6,601 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCDN PARKS AND WILDERNESS — C$6,570 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHAMES TALBOT LAND TRUST — C$6,570 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER CANADA FOUNDATION — C$6,570 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADA FATAL LIGHT AWARENESS PROGRAM (FLAP) — C$6,492 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCROHN'S AND COLITIS CANADA — C$6,492 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$6,492 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$6,492 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$6,398 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — C$6,398 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE SIMCOE REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$6,398 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE — C$6,325 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO NATURE — C$6,325 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JOSEPHS HEALTH CENTRE — C$6,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetU OF NORTHERN BC. NORTHERN MEDICAL PROGRAM — C$6,325 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetRIDEAU VALLEY CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$6,325 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO SHORES CNTR FOR MENTAL HEALTH — C$6,325 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$6,296 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$6,296 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDEAU VALLEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$6,296 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSURFRIDER FOUNDATION VANCOUVER — C$6,296 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH — C$6,049 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHUMBERLAND LAND TRUST — C$6,049 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCANADIAN CANOE FOUNDATION — C$6,049 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMS CANADA — C$6,049 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIND YOUR PLASTIC — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Takla FoundationTd Friends of the Env…Fondation Écho /Echo …The McLean FoundationWeston Family Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…The Nature Conservanc…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct FoundationStrategic Charitable …Jackman FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…
Takla FoundationON10.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Takla Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Nature · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Jackman Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 867983769:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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