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Father Dowd Foundation - la Fondation Father Dowd

Provide support to charitable organizations in the greater montreal area by way of donations to these various organizations.

C$109k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$99k
C$12,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC ACTION MONTREALC$25,000
ENGLISH SPEAKING CATHOLIC COUNCIL INC.C$15,000
DR. CLOWN FOUNDATIONC$13,500
CSSS CAVENDISHC$12,000
LASALLE D+D 50+ CENTREC$12,000
THE CONTACTIVITY CENTREC$11,000
NEW HOPE SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTREC$10,468
WEST ISLAND VOLUNTEER BUREAUC$5,000
THE CARE CENTREC$3,000
CHEZ DORISC$2,500
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$969k · 16 repeat orgsC$12k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
3

Total granted

C$969k
C$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+466%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • TE
    THE ENGLISH SPEAKING CATHOLIC COUNCIL
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$135k · revenue +17%
  • NH
    NEW HOPE SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTRE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$101k · revenue +47%
  • LD
    LaSalle D+D 50+ Centre
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$93k · revenue +74% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k
  • QC
    QUEBEC COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k · revenue +466%
  • TA
    THE AUXILIARY OF THE FATHER DOWD MEMORIAL HOME
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +16%

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.

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Centre communautaire pour ainés Relais santé Matane

L'organisme a pour mission de favoriser le maintien à domicile des adultes vieillissants ou en perte d'autonomie en offrant des services adaptés dans une perspective de prévention pour le maintien et le développement d'habilités…

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2
Centre Intégré de Santé et de Services sociaux de Laval
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3
Centre communautaire des aînés Vaudreuil-Soulanges

Fournir des services d'aide-domestique aux personnes âgées handicapées malades ou défavorisées servir des repas communautaires préparer et livrer des repas surgelés faire le transport des personnes âgées pour les soins médicaux et autres…

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4
Centre de Santé des aînés du Sud-Ouest.Verdun
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5
Centre communautaire le rendez-vous des aînés(es) (Laval) inc.

L'organisme s'occupe du bien des aînés: repas communautaires ateliers de formation conférences sorities groupes de support cuisine collective et cours.

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6
Centre Communautaire Rendez-Vous 50+

Les services alimentaires le soutien à domicile la clinique d'impôts les souhaits d'anniversaire les appels quotidiens

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7
Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociauxde l'Est-de-L'Île-de-Montréal

Fournir des soins de santé aux bénéficaires hospitalisés hébergés et/ou en consultation externe

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8
Centre Hospitalier De L'universite De Montreal

Soins hospitaliers

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9
Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociauxde la Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec
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10
Centre de Soutien et de Services Aidants/Adultes

Atelier, rencontre d'échanges, soutien individuel/de groupe, conférences, appels pour prise de médicaments, accompagnements, transports

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11
Le centre du vieux moulin de lasalle

La mission de l'organisme est d'améliorer la qualité de vie de de prolonger l'autonomie des personnes de 50 ans et plus. les programmes qui nous permettent de répondre à la mission sont les suivants: cours et ateliers bénévolat service de…

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12
Centre D'action Benevole Marguerite Dubois

Offre des services d'aide alimentaire d'urgence d'accueil d'écoute et de référence.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint-Antoine 50+ Community Centre / Centre Communautaire Saint-Antoine 50+ and the most unlike its peers is Les Bénévoles du Centre d'Accueil Father Dowd. 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

18 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. 18 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATHOLIC ACTION MONTREAL — C$162,750 over 5y, 77% of budgetTHE ENGLISH SPEAKING CATHOLIC COUNCIL — C$135,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetNEW HOPE SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTRE — C$101,299 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetLaSalle D+D 50+ Centre — C$93,000 over 7y, 27% of budgetCENTRE CONTACTIVITE INC. — C$77,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetVOLUNTEER WEST ISLAND — C$75,000 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetDR CLOWN FOUNDATION — C$67,375 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT COLUMBIA HOUSE — C$46,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetLA FONDATION DU REFUGE POUR FEMMES CHEZ DORIS INC. — C$45,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT ANTOINE 50+ COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$40,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetN.D.G. SENIOR CITIZENS' COUNCIL INC. — C$30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCSSS CAVENDISH — C$27,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCOMMUNAUTE NAZARETH INC — C$25,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCIUSSS DU CENTRE-OUEST-DE-I'ÎLE-DE-MONTRÉAL (SAINT MARGARET — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBENEDICT LABRE HOUSE INC. — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CARE CENTRE — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetQUEBEC COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$3,600 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE AUXILIARY OF THE FATHER DOWD MEMORIAL HOME — C$3,200 over 1y, 15% 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 famille ZellerQC10.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation de la famille Zeller · Lindsay Memorial Foundation · Fondation Grace Dart/Grace Dart Foundation · The Macdonald Stewart Foundation - la Fondation Macdonald Stewart · Centraide Du Grand Montréal · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · Mission Saint Edward The Confessor · Fondation Saint-Patrick de Montréal/Montreal St-Patrick's F oundation · Pillars Trust Fund inc. · Hylcan Foundation / La Fondation Hylcan · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du 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.

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 19 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 organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 130189509:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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