Mississauga, ON · Charitable organization
Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine / Fondation Pour L'Avancement de la Médecine Familiale
The fafm operates the honours and awards program which confers awards of excellence and lifetime achievement awards in addition to providing scholarships for medical students and family medicine residents and grants supporting research and educational initiatives.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k8 grants · C$40k
- C$10k–50k9 grants · C$188k
- C$50k–250k18 grants · C$2.8M
- C$250k+11 grants · C$29M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS OF CANADA | C$12,882,942 |
| SOCIETY OF RURAL PHYSICIANS OF CANADA | C$7,133,454 |
| INDIGENOUS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL | C$2,605,957 |
| CANADIAN FAMILY PRACTICE NURSES ASSOCIATION | C$1,963,147 |
| CANADIAN ASOCIATION OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS | C$1,361,778 |
| ASSOCIATION OF FACULTIES OF PHARMACY OF CANADA | C$862,748 |
| CANADIAN HEALTH WORKFORCE PARTNERS INC. | C$804,478 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA | C$747,974 |
| VICTORIA YOUTH CLINIC SOCIETY | C$371,418 |
| THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | C$307,508 |
| QUEENS UNIVERSITY | C$299,841 |
| UNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE | C$220,235 |
| UNITY HEALTH TORONTO | C$209,931 |
| UMBRELLA MULTICULTURAL COOPERATIVE | C$199,885 |
| MIGHTY OAK MIDWIFERY CARE INC | C$198,235 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 15% of grant dollars (C$6.7M). The 85% that went abroad (C$38M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 85% of all-years giving (C$38M)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3.6M 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA2× · 2023–2024 · C$997k · revenue +9%
- TGTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO4× · 2021–2024 · C$554k · revenue +8%
- VYVICTORIA YOUTH CLINIC SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · C$531k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CACANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTSone grant, 2023 · C$356k
- OHOttawa Hospital Research Instituteone grant, 2022 · C$198k · revenue +13%
- CICentre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux2× · 2021–2022 · C$11k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ and the most unlike its peers is La maison bleue: milieu de vie préventif à l'enfance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
40 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. 40 of the 58 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.
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF FACULTIES OF PHARMACY OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA YOUTH CLINIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Universite de Sherbrooke ↗
- Who funds Unity Health Toronto ↗
- Who funds QUEENS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Calgary ↗
- Who funds Fraser Health Authority ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds UMBRELLA MULTICULTURAL COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds Ottawa Hospital Research Institute ↗
- Who funds McMaster University ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN MEMORIAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPEECH-LANGUAGE & AUDIOLOGY CANADA ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Memorial University of Newfoundland ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ↗
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: Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation · Canadian Cancer Society - Société Canadienne Du Cancer · Ontario Lung Association · The Kidney Foundation of Canada / la Fondation Canadienne Du Rein · Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada · Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research Society · The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation · Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada · Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada · The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/Societe de Leucemie & Lymphome Du Canada · Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canada · J.P. Bickell Foundation
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.