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Nepean, ON · Private foundation

Fonds pour la démocratie Matthew R. Scanlan Democracy Fund

Our charity gifts grants to five general types of qualified donee causes: Humanitarian; Democracy and Human Rights; Environmental; Clinical Research and Education.

C$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$300
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$543k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
World Food ProgrammeC$1,500
Médecins sans frontièresC$1,500
Homes For Heroes FoundationC$1,000
Human Rights WatchC$500
Parliamentary CentreC$500
Amnesty InternationalC$500
UNICEF CanadaC$500
Western University AdvancementC$300
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à ChicoutimiC$300
Help LesothoC$300
Inuit Tapiriit KanatamiC$300
Ottawa Hospital FoundationC$300
Cystic Fibrosis CanadaC$300
MS CanadaC$300
Environmental DefenceC$300
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 90% of grant dollars (C$14k). The 10% that went abroad (C$2k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 10% of all-years giving (C$2k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

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International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$11k · 14 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

C$11k
C$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-4%

Still filing today

93%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • HR
    Human Rights Watch
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$750 · revenue +179%
  • AI
    Amnesty International
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$750 · revenue +2%
  • UC
    UNICEF Canada
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$750 · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • MS
    Médecins sans Frontières
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue -4%

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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Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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2
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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3
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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4
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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5
World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada

World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…

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6
Prostate Cancer Canada

Prostate Cancer Canada has continued to responsibly invest the generous donations of Canadians to develop the most promising studies and minds Canada has to offer in the field of prostate cancer research. We have continued to ensure the…

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7
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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8
Cooperation Canada - Coopération Canada

Cooperation Canada is Canada's national association of international development and humanitarian organizations. Cooperation Canada brings together and advocates for effective Canadian international development assistance by convening…

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9
United Nations Association in Canada

United Nations Association in Canada engages citizens and decision makers at every level of Canadian society. It invests across generations bringing empathy-based educational resources and opportunities on health citizen education…

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10
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. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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11
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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12
The David Suzuki Foundation

The David Suzuki Foundation works through science and education to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life now and for the future.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Canada and the most unlike its peers is Homes for Heroes 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

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. 16 of the 18 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
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 budgetHelp Lesotho — C$1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMédecins sans Frontières — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomes For Heroes Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International — C$750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNICEF Canada — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInuit Tapiriit Kanatami — C$550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoberta Bondar Foundation — C$550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBruce Trail Conservancy — C$550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Canada — C$550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMS Canada — C$550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOttawa Hospital Foundation — C$550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defence — C$550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetParliamentary Centre — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern University Advancement — C$425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFondation de l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi — C$425 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.

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.

Nicola Wealth Private…BenefAction FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Strategic Charitable …Charitable Gift Funds…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.

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 18 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 733754402:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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