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Pierrefonds, QC · Public foundation

Colin J. Adair Charitable Foundation

The foundation makes contribution to other canadian charitable organizations registered with the canada revenue agency.

C$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$175k
  • C$50k–250k12 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$300k
C$50,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$300,000
THE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$200,000
THE MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$200,000
OLD BREWERY MISSIONC$100,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITY (THE DEMENTIA EDUCATION PROGRAM)C$100,000
LAKESHORE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAIONC$100,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITY (MCGILL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTREC$100,000
ATWATER LIBRARY AND COMPUTING CENTRE (3RD CENTURYC$100,000
SUN YOUTH FOUNDATIONC$50,000
LAKESHORE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAIONC$50,000
CANADA'S HISTORY SOCIETYC$50,000
L'ARBI EN VILLEC$50,000
HABILITAS FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENC$25,000
JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITALC$25,000
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.5M · 9 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

C$5.5M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$150k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • AL
    ATWATER LIABRARY AND COMPUTER CENTRE
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +29%
  • MU
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY (DEMENTIA EDUCATION PROGRAM-CLAIR WEBSTER)
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$650k · revenue +20%
  • TM
    THE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (NEONATAL PRO
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$425k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • MS
    MAISON SAULT-SAINT-LOUIS
    one grant, 2021 · C$1.0M · revenue -7% · 94% of their budget
  • CH
    CANADA'S HISTORY
    one grant, 2022 · C$250k · revenue +11%

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 du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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2
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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3
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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4
Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal

Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal

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5
Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De Montreal/Montreal Heart Institute Foundation

La fondation de l'institut de cardiologie de ontréal recueille et administre des fonds pour soutenir la recherche la prévention et l'enseignement prodigués par l'institut de cardiologie de montréal. elle encourage ainsi l'excellence d'une…

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6
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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7
L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

The charity carries out all forms of medical research. the programs provide physical space as well as financial and personnel services to facilitate the work of researchers.

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8
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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9
Fondation de l'hôpital Jean-Talon

Contribuer à l'amélioration de la qualité des soins et des services offerts à la clientèle et à la promotion de la santé dans la communauté en soutenant financièrement le développement de l'hôpital jean-talon et du ciusss du…

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10
Fondation De L'hopital Royal Victoria/Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation

The royal victoria hospital foundation is devoted to raising funds for research. teaching and patient care, for the royal victoria hospital of the mcgill university health center (muhc) and its affiliated institutions

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11
Fondation de l'hôpital Lasalle

Recueillir et administrer des fonds pour effectuer des dons en équipements à l'hôpital de lasalle afin de renouveler 'équipement médical spécialisé.

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12
Chu de Québec - Université Laval

Affilié à l'université laval le chu de québec - université laval dispense des soins et des services de santé généraux spécialisés et surspécialisés en y intégrant l'enseignement la recherche clinique et fondamentale et l'évaluation des…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Fondation De L'hÔPital GÉNÉRal De MontrÉAl the MontrÉAl General Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Allegra Foundation-Fondation Allegra. 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

16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
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 budgetTHE MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,725,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetATWATER LIABRARY AND COMPUTER CENTRE — C$1,200,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMAISON SAULT-SAINT-LOUIS — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetHABILTAS FOUNDATION — C$750,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY (DEMENTIA EDUCATION PROGRAM-CLAIR WEBSTER) — C$650,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (NEONATAL PRO — C$425,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAKESHORE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$393,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCANADA'S HISTORY — C$250,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetOLD BREWERY MISSION — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetL'ABRI EN VILLE — C$150,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSUN YOUTH FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ALLEGRA FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCEDARS CANCER FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Fondation de la famil…Jewish Community Foun…Charitable Gift Funds…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Fondation de la famille ZellerQC8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation de la famille Zeller · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 16 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 712017532:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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