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Westmount, QC · Private foundation

Clarus Foundation / Fondation Clarus

Its ongoing program is making grants to qualified donees to support its mission.

C$413k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$256k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$150k
C$25,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROCK UNIVERSITYC$100,000
TRINITY COLLEGEC$50,000
UNIVERSITE DE MONTREALC$30,000
WCPD FOUNDATIONC$25,000
LORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONC$25,000
DOUGLAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
PEARSON COLLEGE OF THE PACIFICC$25,000
CENTRAIDE DU GRAND MONTREALC$25,000
TERESA DELLAR PALLIATIVE CARE RESIDENCE FOUNDATIONC$20,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$20,000
CARE CANADAC$20,000
STRATFORD FESTIVALC$16,000
INDSPIREC$15,000
MYRIAD CANADAC$10,000
BATSHAW YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTRES FOUNDATIONC$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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.8M · 24 repeat orgsC$319k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
18

Total granted

C$2.8M
C$294k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+32%

Still filing today

96%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • TC
    TRINITY COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$370k · revenue +36%
  • BU
    BROCK UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$325k · revenue +9%
  • UD
    UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$240k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • OS
    ONTARIO SHORES FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +17%
  • UC
    UPPER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k
  • RC
    RIDLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue -290%

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
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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2
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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3
Fondation du Centre des Sciences de Montréal / Montreal Science Centre Foundation

La fondaiton a pour but de promouvoir une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de la science des technologies et de leur histoire.

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4
Fondation Université du Québec

Octroi de bourses et financement de projets de recherche ou de développement pour les institutions universitaires.

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5
La Fondation de l'Université Laval
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6
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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7
Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation

To receive and invest funds and apply them to health care activities research and the teaching mandate for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre it's related institutions and other qualified donees with a similar mission.

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8
Fondation du Cégep de Trois-Rivières
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9
Canadian Association of University Teachers Foundation Fond ation de l'association Canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université
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10
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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11
La fondation de l'institut thoracique de Montréal / the Montréal Chest Institute Foundation

Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre

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12
Ocad University Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/the Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Head & Hands / À Deux Mains. 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

40 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. 40 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
33/40
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 budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — C$370,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBROCK UNIVERSITY — C$325,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL — C$240,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$210,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAIDE DU GRAND MONTREAL — C$200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEARSON COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC — C$185,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetINSPIRE — C$145,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATFORD FESTIVAL — C$101,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO SHORES FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH — C$100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUPPER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$87,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEST ISLAND PALLIATIVE CARE CENTER — C$70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEAD AND HANDS — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOADY INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE — C$54,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWCPD FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEAD AND HANDS — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMONTREAL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — C$28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBATSHAW YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTRES FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetKING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDOUGLAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASIA PACIFIC FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$22,800 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetOTTAWA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPATHY IS BORING — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPIERRE ELLIOT TRUDEAU FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTION CANADA FOR SEXUAL HEALTH AND RIGHTS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PORTRAIT GALLERY OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetATWATER LIBRARY AND COMPUTER CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMAISON PAPILLON/BUTTERFLY HOUSE — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DEPOT COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WEREDALE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION (CHAGALL) — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

R. Howard Webster Fou…The J W McConnell Fam…La Fondation du Grand…Aqueduct FoundationThe Peacock family fo…Raymond James Canada …Ottawa Community Foun…The Azrieli Foundatio…The George Hogg Famil…Wcpd FoundationToronto FoundationThe Molson Foundation…
R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard WebsterQC13.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · Aqueduct Foundation · The Peacock family foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · The George Hogg Family Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Molson Foundation/Fondation Molson

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 43 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 843384215:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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