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Saskatoon, SK · Private foundation

Joe & Debbie Vidal Foundation Inc.

To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in the income tax act (canada).

C$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$52k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$52k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSEC$52,000
SASKATOON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION CORPC$10,000
CANADIAN TIRE JUMPSTART CHARITIESC$5,000
MAKE A WISHC$5,000
ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$3,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SASKATOONC$500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAKATOONC$500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SASKATOONC$250
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$250k · 5 repeat orgsC$64k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

C$250k
C$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$137k · revenue +26%
  • LC
    LAKEVIEW CHURCH
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$55k · revenue +61%
  • RU
    ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$37k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • RU
    ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$33k
  • SF
    SASKATOON FOOD BANK & LEARNING CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -4%
  • EW
    ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +8%

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
United Way of Saskatoon and Area

United Way mission is to improve lives and build community by engaging individuals and mobilizing collective action. United Way invests resources into programs services and community building activities that have an emphasis on addressing…

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2
Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation Inc.

The Foundation's purpose is to raise funds for the enhancement of children's and maternal healthcare in Saskatchewan and the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital. The Foundation is a proud member of Canada's Children's Hospital Foundation…

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3
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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4
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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5
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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6
Saskatoon Community Foundation

PROVIDE GRANTS TO QUALIFIED DONEES COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS PROVIDE STUDENT AWARDS Promote Legacy Giving and Charitable Giving Administer charitable granting programs of Corporates

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7
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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8
Cancer Foundation of Saskatchewan Inc.

The foundation obtained it’s registered charity status on may 14 2018. the foundation's mission is to raise funds to support the cancer needs of the people of saskatchewan. as the fundraising partner for the saskatchewan cancer agency the…

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9
The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada/La Fondation Canadienne Reves D'enfants

The Foundation granted wishes to children suffering from high risk life threatening illnesses. The foundation also funds research and provides grants to health care facilities in Canada that either research diseases that particularly…

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10
The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc

The main purpose of the foundation is to raise and distribute funds for the advancement of knowledge and care in the fields of child health research as well as to provide equipment and fund programs at the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg.…

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11
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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12
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Samaritan's Purse - Canada and the most unlike its peers is Lakeview Free Methodist Church Inc.. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — C$137,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAKEVIEW CHURCH — C$55,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$36,833 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN TIRE JUMPSTART CHARITIES — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSASKATOON FOOD BANK & LEARNING CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSASKATOON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION CORP — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRAIRIE HARM REDUCTION INCORPORATED — C$6,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE A WISH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUM CARE GROUP INC. — 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.

United Way of Saskato…BenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way of Saskatoon and AreaSK8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Saskatoon and Area · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 11 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 792251720:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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