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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

Institute for Liberal Studies Inc.

Educational events for students: freedom week: a five-day intellectual adventure.

C$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$15k
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

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$42k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$251k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCGILL UNIVERSITY ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OFC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA THEC$8,750
VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITYC$7,795
TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITYC$5,500
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITYC$5,000
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPHC$4,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYC$3,995
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$2,000
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$214k · 10 repeat orgsC$16k 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 +23% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

C$214k
C$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • MU
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$86k · revenue +24%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA THE
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$26k · revenue +24%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
    2× · 2017–2021 · C$17k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue -2%
  • RU
    RYERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +23%

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
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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2
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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3
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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4
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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5
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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6
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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7
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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8
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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9
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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10
University of Waterloo

The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.

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11
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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12
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Lethbridge 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

14 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
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%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF — C$86,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA THE — C$26,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR — C$16,545 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$13,840 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY — C$13,225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$11,930 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA THE GOVERNORS OF THE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERISTY OF CALGARY THE GOVERNORS OF THE — C$8,710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$3,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 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.

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 14 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under support of schools and education.

Source object 835068123:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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