Montreal, QC · Public foundation
Fondation Habilitas Habilitas Foundation
The mission of the habilitas foundation / fondation habilitas (formerly madb-mackay foundation) is to raise manage and disburse funds in support of physical rehabilitation services for the following four impairment areas: - deaf and hard of hearing - visual impairment - motor impairment - communication disorders
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$32k
- C$250k+3 grants · C$4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIUSSS DU CENTRE OUEST DE L'ILE DE MONTRÉAL | C$2,240,332 |
| CAMP MASSAWIPPI | C$1,295,177 |
| ACTION CENTRE | C$587,679 |
| QUÉBEC FEDERATION OF THE BLIND | C$21,782 |
| ENGLISH MONTRAL SCHOOL BOARD | C$10,000 |
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 +134% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- CDCIUSSS DU CENTRE OUEST DE L'ILE DE MONTRÉAL4× · 2020–2024 · C$10M
- CMCAMP MASSAWIPPI7× · 2018–2024 · C$6.7M · revenue +134% · 75% of their budget
- MRMAB-MACKAY REHABILITATION CENTRE3× · 2017–2019 · C$5.2M
Funded once
- CDCIUSSSS DU CENTRE OUEST DE L'ILE DE MONTRÉALone grant, 2021 · C$2.0M
- CLCONSTANCE LETHBRIDGEone grant, 2018 · C$73k
- PEPOLE EN READAPTION UNIVERSITAIREone grant, 2019 · C$66k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
3 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. 3 of the 13 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.
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: PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.