Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Cj Foundation
To provide funding to other charities in support of issues in northern canada
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$25k
- C$10k–50k7 grants · C$75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKEWAY FOUNDATION | C$15,000 |
| ECOLOGY NORTH | C$10,000 |
| ANNAUMA | C$10,000 |
| LLISQSIVIK SOCIETY | C$10,000 |
| WHITEHORSE FOOD BANK | C$10,000 |
| FOOD FIRST FOUNDATION | C$10,000 |
| INUIT TAPIRIIT KANATAMI | C$10,000 |
| DECHINTA CENTRE FOR REASEARCH LEARNING | C$8,000 |
| CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$5,000 |
| ABORIGINAL MOTHER CENTRE SOCIETY | C$5,000 |
| NCC | C$2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 86% of grant dollars (C$562k). The 14% that went abroad (C$88k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 14% of all-years giving (C$88k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +144% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k went to new ones.
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
- MFMAKEWAY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$314k · revenue +70%
- ACABORIGINAL CENTRE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · C$46k · revenue +66%
- FFFOOD FIRST FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · C$33k · revenue +239%
Funded once
- QPQqs Project Societygraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +75%
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYone grant, 2022 · C$4k
- SCSIERRA CLUB BCone grant, 2021 · C$3k · revenue +24%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…
Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…
Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…
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…
The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…
Programs to educate and increase the public’s understanding of ecology and ecosystems sustainable resource use and the importance of conservation and restoring ecosystems. Educate the public about Indigenous climate and environmental…
Oceans north conservation society’s mandate is to promote the conservation of canada’s northern oceans and the resulting well-being of people and communities who rely upon its natural wealth
Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…
Supported rural remote and indigenous communities in creating community-led economic development solutions that are thriving sustainable and equitable. our work involved providing technical expertise project management business planning…
Forest conservation and environmental education projects with First Nation and other communities.
Global Indigenous Development Trust engages in community economic development training and empowerment partnership building education and advocacy. We work with First Peoples who drive our projects together with industry academic…
The centre for northern conservation: 1. work to support and encourage greater recognition of the work of indigenous governments and communities in protecting the environment through for example the creation of indigenous protected and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Food Bank Society of Whitehorse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAKEWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABORIGINAL CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WHITEHORSE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD FIRST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRE FOR ABORIGINAL MEDIA (ONTARIO) ↗
- Who funds INUIT TAPIRIIT KANATAMI ↗
- Who funds DECHINTA CENTRE FOR REASEARCH LEARNING ↗
- Who funds WCS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA ↗
- Who funds KAMATSIQTUT NUNAVIT HELPING ↗
- Who funds Salal Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Nature Conservancy ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN PARKS WIDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Qqs Project Society ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB BC ↗
- Who funds YUKON CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · The Annual Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Toronto Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)
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.