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Saskatoon, SK · Private foundation

Heather Ryan & L. David Dube Foundation Inc.

The foundation raises funds generates income from investments and makes donations to qualified donees.

C$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$209k
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$3.4M
C$84,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNICC$1,750,000
ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,005,000
GOLF CANADA FOUNDATIONC$360,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY CANADAC$250,000
NORTH SASKATCHEWAN REGIMENT FUND INCC$84,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$75,000
SANCTUM CARE GROUP INCC$50,000
SASKATOON FRIENDSHIP INNC$30,000
SHAKESPEARE ON THE SASKATCHEWANC$25,000
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.7M · 8 repeat orgsC$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

C$3.7M
C$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+27%

Still filing today

88%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.2M 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

  • NC
    Nature Conservancy Canada
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +101%
  • RU
    ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +107%
  • WH
    WANUSKEWIN HERITAGE PARK AUTHORITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$500k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CW
    CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k
  • SZ
    Saskatoon Zoo Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$42k · revenue +90%
  • SP
    SASKATOON POLICE SERVICE FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$33k · revenue ×52

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
The Saskatoon Gallery and Conservatory Corporation
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2
Saskatchewan Health Authority

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is responsible for the delivery of high quality and timely health care for all the people across the province. The SHA has approximately 40 000 employees and 2 770 physicians who provide services to…

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3
Saskatoon Regional Health Authority

We operate a health delivery system providing a full range of health care services to residents of the Saskatoon Health Region and other residents of Saskatchewan. Services are provided in hospitals, long-term care facilities, primary…

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4
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation

We run funding competitions that provide: 1. Grants to new university faculty members to start their health research programs; 2. Grants for advanced research training in health areas;; 3. Support for Researchers to exchange ideas and work…

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5
Saskatchewan Indigenous Community Foundation
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6
The Art Gallery of Saskatchewan Inc.

This charity operates a public art museum for the collection preservation exhibition and interpretation of work of art and the development of public understanding and appreication of art.

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7
Saskatchewan Polytechnic Foundation Inc.

The foundation's purpose is to raise funds to support students and programs at saskatchewan polytechnic. the foundation will have limited activity unless there are changes to federal or provincial regulations that result in it being…

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8
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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9
Saskatchewan Stock Growers Foundation Inc.

To protect and preserve the environment enhance and restore natural ecosystem and wildlife habitat and to preserve indigeneous species of flora and fauna in Saskatchewan by acquiring conservations easements.

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10
Hospitals of Regina Foundation Inc.

Hospitals of Regina Foundation Inc. provides funding through donations to the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) and other agencies to improve healthcare for the residents of Southern Saskatchewan. The donations assist these agencies in…

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11
Saskatoon Museum of Military Artifacts Incorporated

To provide a public amenity by collecting and preserving military artifacts documents and memorabilia and to maintain the museum for the public benefit

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12
Saskatchewan Cancer Agency

The saskatchewan cancer agency provided leadership in cancer control for the people of saskatchewan through prevention early detection treatment and research

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saskatoon Zoo Foundation Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Toronto Catholic District School Board. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNIC — C$1,750,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNature Conservancy Canada — C$1,525,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,010,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetWANUSKEWIN HERITAGE PARK AUTHORITY — C$500,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetUniversity of Saskatchewan — C$151,251 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUM CARE GROUP INC — C$150,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNORTH SASKATCHEWAN REGIMENT FUND INC — C$134,000 over 3y, 99% of budgetShakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival Inc. — C$130,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$75,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSaskatoon Zoo Foundation — C$42,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetSASKATOON FRIENDSHIP INN — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTORONTO CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcMaster University — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS CANADA — C$1,000 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.

Saskatoon Community F…United Way of Saskato…Raymond James Canada …Our Lady of the Prair…Private Giving Founda…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…BenefAction FoundationThe Calgary FoundationAqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…Charities Aid Foundat…
Saskatoon Community FoundationSK9.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saskatoon Community Foundation · United Way of Saskatoon and Area · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · BenefAction Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 19 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 815762471:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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