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Montreal, QC · Public foundation

Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada.

C$29M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
Regions reached
C$3.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$28k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$327k
  • C$50k–250k16 grants · C$1.5M
  • C$250k+22 grants · C$27M
C$95,000
Median grant
9
Regions reached
C$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$3,630,553
MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTREC$3,165,888
UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORKC$2,974,970
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$2,148,380
DOUGLAS HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTREC$2,114,647
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIOC$1,922,565
UNIVERSITÉ LAVALC$1,800,393
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTHC$1,234,681
WOMEN'S BRAIN HEALTH INITIATIVEC$1,110,000
UNIVERISTY OF TORONTOC$859,979
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDRENSC$753,322
SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTEC$726,558
UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉALC$719,511
CHU SAINTE JUSTINE HOSPITALC$606,550
ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCAREC$573,061
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$99M
Quebec
C$65M
Alberta
C$25M
British Columbia
C$16M
Manitoba
C$884k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$631k
Nova Scotia
C$554k
Saskatchewan
C$343k
New Brunswick
C$188k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$204M · 49 repeat orgsC$5.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
9

Total granted

C$204M
C$795k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4.2M 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

  • MU
    McGill University Health Centre
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$29M · revenue +53%
  • CF
    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$19M · revenue +59%
  • UO
    University of British Columbia
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$15M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • HC
    HSF CANADIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR STROKE RECOVERY
    one grant, 2019 · C$463k · revenue -53%
  • CF
    Capitalize for Kids Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$150k · revenue +90%
  • UD
    UNIVERSITÉ DE QUÉBECgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$57k · revenue +45%

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

04Your 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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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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2
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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3
UniversitÉ Du QuÉBec À MontrÉAl

La mission de l'université consiste à former des étudiants et à contributer à l'avancement des connaissances par des activités de recherche. toutes les ressources de l'université ont été dépensées dans le cadre le cardre de sa mission par…

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4
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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5
UniversitÉ Du QuÉBec En Abitibi-TÉMiscamingue

Enseignement universitaire développement d'activité de recherche

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6
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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7
Universite Concordia

The main mission of the University is to provide post-secondary and graduate education. It engages in research public services and assists students faculties and researchers. Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science Gina Cody…

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8
U.C.M.U. Montérégie
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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
The Ottawa Hospital/L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital is a three-campus hospital model with two full service campuses (civic and general). the objective of the hospital is to provide quality patient care through education and research and is dedicated to improving the…

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11
Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux de l'Estrie - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke

Fourniture de soins et services médicaux permettant l'amélioration du bien-être et de la santé des patients (centre hospitalier centre d'hébergement longue durée centre local de services communautaires centre jeunesse centre de…

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12
Universite Du Quebec En Outaouais

L'université a pour mission de former des étudiants de contribuer à l'avancement des connaissances par activités de recherche et de rendre des services à la collectivité

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ Institut De Recherche De L'hopital D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Capitalize for Kids Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 77 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
49/64
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMcGill University Health Centre — C$28,989,824 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCentre for Addiction and Mental Health — C$18,937,748 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$14,630,764 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) — C$13,503,905 over 3y, 22% of budgetUniversité Laval — C$12,137,213 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hospital for Sick Children — C$12,100,260 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$11,773,395 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$10,035,022 over 8y, 92% of budgetDOUGLAS HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTRE — C$8,447,505 over 7y, 10% of budgetCENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL — C$7,254,282 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$7,232,128 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$6,922,470 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S BRAIN HEALTH INITIATIVE — C$6,207,604 over 8y, 68% of budgetBAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE — C$5,329,489 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK — C$4,857,032 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSt. Michael's Hospital — C$3,943,097 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe University of Lethbridge — C$3,461,100 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa — C$2,385,411 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMcMaster University — C$2,082,830 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$2,070,022 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$2,019,551 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHU SAINTE JUSTINE HOSPITAL — C$1,919,167 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario — C$1,605,756 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCENTRE INTÉGRÉ UNIVERSITAIRE DE SANTÉ ET DE SERVICES — C$1,584,888 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL — C$1,505,373 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMount Sinai Hospital — C$1,316,659 over 2y, 65% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$1,307,372 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHolland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital — C$1,280,436 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$1,180,881 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE RESEARCH CORPORATION — C$1,048,270 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSinai Health System — C$761,581 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInstitut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) — C$675,906 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND — C$631,493 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$629,441 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique — C$575,550 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE — C$573,061 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CE... — C$532,061 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYork University — C$525,796 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHSF CANADIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR STROKE RECOVERY — C$462,500 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetFondation CHU Sainte-Justine — C$431,172 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUniversité de Sherbrooke — C$421,301 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Saskatchewan — C$343,469 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIzzak Walton Health Centre — C$316,902 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDalhousie University — C$236,768 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAWSON RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$231,763 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$189,086 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversité de Moncton — C$187,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$183,500 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds McGill University Health Centre ↗
  • Who funds Centre for Addiction and Mental Health ↗
  • Who funds University of British Columbia ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) ↗
  • Who funds Université Laval ↗
  • Who funds The Hospital for Sick Children ↗
  • Who funds THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds DOUGLAS HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds University of Toronto ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S BRAIN HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds St. Michael's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds The University of Lethbridge ↗
  • Who funds University of Ottawa ↗
  • Who funds McMaster University ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA ↗
  • Who funds CHU SAINTE JUSTINE HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE INTÉGRÉ UNIVERSITAIRE DE SANTÉ ET DE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL ↗
  • Who funds Mount Sinai Hospital ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Simon Fraser University ↗
  • Who funds OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Sinai Health System ↗
  • Who funds Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND ↗
  • Who funds OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique ↗
  • Who funds ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CE... ↗
  • Who funds York University ↗
  • Who funds HSF CANADIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR STROKE RECOVERY ↗

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.

Société de Recherche …Canadian Cancer Socie…Breakthrough T1D Cana…Parkinson Canada Inc.The Hospital for Sick…Weston Family Foundat…Heart and Stroke Foun…The Kidney Foundation…Diabetes Canada Diabè…The Leukemia & Lympho…Foundation for Advanc…Praxis Spinal Cord In…
Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research SocietyQC24× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research Society · Canadian Cancer Society - Société Canadienne Du Cancer · Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada · Parkinson Canada Inc. · The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canada · The Kidney Foundation of Canada / la Fondation Canadienne Du Rein · Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada · The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/Societe de Leucemie & Lymphome Du Canada · Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine / Fondation Pour L'Avancement de la Médecine Familiale · Praxis Spinal Cord Institute

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 77 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 2024-03-31, 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 891052094:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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