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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Gulu Thadani Foundation

Donations to educational and medical organizations.

C$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$125k
C$20,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Project Maji (ForAfrika)C$25,000
Operation Eyesight CanadaC$25,000
Doctors Without Borders CanadaC$25,000
Effect Canada (The Leprosy Mission Canada)C$20,000
South Asian Women's CentreC$15,000
University of Windsor (Guiseppe and Immacolata Desando FirstC$15,000
Bangladesh Hindu Community Centre in Canada Inc.C$5,000
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$184k · 5 repeat orgsC$75k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

C$184k
C$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+163%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$30k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SA
    SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTRE
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$84k · revenue +5%
  • EC
    Effect Canada (The Leprosy Mission Canada)
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$25k · revenue +43%
  • UO
    University of Windsor (Guiseppe and Immacolata Desando First
    2× · 2021–2024 · C$25k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF CANADA (A.R.S.) FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +163%
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue -22%

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.

1
Canadian Surgical Eye Expeditions

Restore sight to people in developing countries

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2
Oxfam Canada

Oxfam canada this year spanned 21 countries focusing on various humanitarian and development initiatives. in jamaica we address gender-based violence (gbv) through social norm changes and advocacy. in nicaragua we empower civil society for…

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3
World Vision Canada-Vision Mondiale Canada

World Vision Canada carries out programs in 55 countries which are funded through ongoing private and public funding and focuses on: • Livelihoods: including food environment & climate change and economic empowerment; • Health: including…

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4
Seva Canada Society

1. sight restoration and blindness prevention programs in india nepal eastern africa cambodia egypt francophone west africa and tibetan areas of china 2. collaborate and assist in the development of partner clinics hospitals and…

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5
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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6
Canadian Association of Physicians With an Interest in South Asia

Continue to operate education activities for doctors and support canada and india initiatives

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7
Muslim Hands

Delivery of projects outside of Canada is through an affiliated Muslim Hands Organization. Together with local partners and country offices Muslim Hands is working in the world's poorest countries to tackle the root causes of poverty and…

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8
Academics without Borders / Universitaires sans frontières

Academics without border mission is to help people in the developing world realize their dreams through higher education because education is the key to a flourishing society and a sustainable world. academics without borders' projects are…

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9
Amref Health Africa in Canada

Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. with their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health…

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10
Canadian Vision Care

Performing eye exams and cataract surgery free of charge to the needy in developing countries providing eyeglasses free of charge to the needy in developing countries

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11
Sopar-Bala Vikasa

Education populalre en développement international engagement du public par l'entremise du projet - Les jeunes changent le monde-; implication Canada-lnde dans la marche pour l'eau. Stages de développement communautaire en lnde pour les…

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12
Islamic Relief - Ir Canada

Islamic Relief Canada carries out humanitarian and development programs in over 30 countries. Programs include: • Livelihoods focused on climate-adaptive support and/or economic empowerment; • Health including water sanitation and hygiene…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Eyesight Canada and the most unlike its peers is University of Windsor. 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

9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
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 budgetSOUTH ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$84,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetEffect Canada (The Leprosy Mission Canada) — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Eyesight Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY OF CANADA (A.R.S.) FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetProject Maji (ForAfrika) — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Windsor (Guiseppe and Immacolata Desando First — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDoctors Without Borders Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$20,000 over 1y, 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.

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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 9 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 793320870:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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