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Victoria, BC · Private foundation

Irma J. Brydson Foundation

The foundation carries out the program of making gifts to qualified recipients who carry out charitable activities furthering the relief of poverty the advancement of education and the advancement of the public's appreciation of the arts.

C$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$150,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA TorontoC$150,000
Glenlyon Norfolk School FoundationC$50,000
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$878k · 5 repeat orgsC$204k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

C$878k
C$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • YT
    YWCA Toronto
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$713k · revenue +55%
  • YT
    YWCA Toronto
    4× · 2018–2022 · C$108k · revenue +42%
  • GN
    Glenlyon Norfolk School Foundation
    2× · 2018–2024 · C$51k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • YT
    YWCA Toronto
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k
  • CO
    Craft Ontario
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k
  • TU
    The University of British Columbiagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$40k · revenue +55%

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
The Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology

Georgian College is an educational institution that provides full-time post secondary programs including partnerships with various universities providing upgrading trades and apprenticeship programs career interest courses and provides…

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3
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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4
York University

York University provided the following programs/activities: - Undergraduate degree programs - Graduate degree programs - Non-credit courses - Sponsored research - Ancillary operations (for the benefit of students)

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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
Vancouver Urbanarium Society

Continued to provide the Metro Vancouver community with a platform for making dialogue around urban issues accessible - how our urban systems and the forces acting on them work what urban futures might happen and what we can do to affect…

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9
Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance Society

Public education and audience development of theatre as an art form; Online Theatre Guide; Professional development workshops gatherings and education for theatre workers; Weekly newsletter publication on theatre activities across Metro…

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10
Simon Fraser University

Sfu offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the faculties of applied science arts and social services beedie school of business education environment health sciences sciences and communication arts and technology. the university…

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11
University of Toronto Schools

University of toronto schools (uts) is a university preparatory school grade 7-12 affiliated with the university of toronto (u of t). uts offers high achieving students a specialized curriculum and a unique co-educational learning…

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12
University of Guelph

The University carries out teaching research extension education activities and opportunities through student scholarships and bursaries travel grants and learning initiatives. In addition the University's operating and ancillary services…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Glenlyon Norfolk School Foundation. 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYWCA Toronto — C$712,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA Toronto — C$107,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGlenlyon Norfolk School Foundation — C$51,476 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe University of British Columbia — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BELFRY THEATRE SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgian Triangle Humane Society — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOntario Crafts Council — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe War Amps — C$100 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 13 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 846569879:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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