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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

John Patrick Colfer Family Foundation

Throughout the year disbursements were made by the foundation to charities across canada.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$95k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k33 grants · C$740k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$360k
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN CANADAC$95,000
DANS LA RUE (LE BON DIEU DANS LA RUE)C$60,000
PILLARS TRUST FUND INCC$55,000
FONDATION MISSION OLD BREWERYC$50,000
MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRE CANADAC$50,000
LA CORPORATION EPISCOPALE C.R DE VALLEYFIELDC$50,000
QUEBEC VETERANS FOUNDATIONC$45,000
MISSION INCLUSIONC$45,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST ISLANDC$45,000
DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONC$40,000
ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$35,000
CONCORDIAC$25,000
WEST ISLANDS COMMUNITY SHARESC$25,000
MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY INCC$25,000
SOCIÉTÉ DES MISSIONS ÉTRANGÈRESC$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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.2M · 56 repeat orgsC$202k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
18

Total granted

C$3.2M
C$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+8%

Still filing today

98%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$75k 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

  • CM
    CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN CANADA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$305k · revenue +10%
  • DL
    DANS LA RUE (LE BON DIEU DANS LA RUE)
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$164k · revenue +114%
  • MI
    MISSION INCLUSION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$145k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • LB
    LES BANQUES ALIMENTAIRES DU QUÉBECgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +136%
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue -48%
  • CO
    CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF ST.JOSEPH IN CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k

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
Fondation du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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2
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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3
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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4
Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De Montreal/Montreal Heart Institute Foundation

La fondation de l'institut de cardiologie de ontréal recueille et administre des fonds pour soutenir la recherche la prévention et l'enseignement prodigués par l'institut de cardiologie de montréal. elle encourage ainsi l'excellence d'une…

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5
Chu de Québec - Université Laval

Affilié à l'université laval le chu de québec - université laval dispense des soins et des services de santé généraux spécialisés et surspécialisés en y intégrant l'enseignement la recherche clinique et fondamentale et l'évaluation des…

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6
Fondation Du Centre Hospitalier De L'universite De Montreal

La foundation du chum a pour objectifs d'établir d'organiser de maintenir d'administrer et de développer des fonds pour promouvoir l'amélioration des soins l'excellence de l'enseignement et l'avancement de la recherche en général au centre…

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7
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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8
Fondation De L'institut Canadien Francais D'ottawa

Aide aux plus demunis (es) nourriture + soutien

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9
Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal

Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal

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10
Fondation du Collège Notre-Dame à Montréal

Lévees de fonds auprès des parents du college notre-dame des anciens élèves des employés des fournisseurs et de grands donateurs dans le but de financer les activités spécifiques du college notre-dame.

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11
Fondation De L'institut Universitaire En SantÉ Mentale De MontrÉAl
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12
Fondation de l'institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du québec

Gestion d'une variété de collectes de fonds qui servent à soutenir financièrement au moyen de dons le développement de l'institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du québec incluant celui de ses élèves ses professeurs et ses outils pédagogiques…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Fondation du refuge pour femmes Chez Doris Inc. Chez Doris Women's Shelter Foundation Inc. and the most unlike its peers is The Legion National 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

75 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. 75 of the 78 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
54/75
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATHOLIC MISSIONS IN CANADA — C$305,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetDANS LA RUE (LE BON DIEU DANS LA RUE) — C$164,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMISSION INCLUSION — C$145,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$138,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetQUEBEC VETERANS FOUNDATION — C$128,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetPILLARS TRUST FUND INC — C$117,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetFONDATION MISSION OLD BREWERY — C$111,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMISSION BON ACCUEIL (WELCOME HALL MISSION) — C$99,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRE CANADA — C$95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBENEDICT LABRE HOUSE / MAISON BENOIT LABRE — C$93,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetLA CORPORATION EPISCOPALE C.R DE VALLEYFIELD — C$90,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST ISLAND — C$85,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetSISTERS OF LIFE CANADA — C$83,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY OF CANADA — C$80,000 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetPORTAGE FOUNDATION — C$76,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFONDATION MOISSON MONTRÉAL — C$73,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CANADA — C$62,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLakeshore General Hospital Foundation — C$59,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetL'ABBAYE DE SAINT BENOIT DU LAC — C$59,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHEZ DORIS — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCONCORDIA — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS TRANSITION NETWORK — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBISHOP'S COLLEGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$53,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLAST POND FUND / FOND DU SOUVENIR — C$44,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN NURSES FOUNDATION — C$43,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER — C$41,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetREFUGE DES JEUNES DE MONTRÉAL — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMISSING CHILDREN'S NETWORK CANADA — C$40,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetFONDATION MOISSON SUD OUEST — C$38,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAID CADET LEAGUE OF CANADA — C$36,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIÉTÉ DES MISSIONS ÉTRANGÈRES — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN JESUITES — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSIONARIES OF CHARITY INC — C$33,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TORONTO — C$31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SIR MORTIMER B. DAVIS JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSIONS JÉSUITES — C$28,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LEGION NATIONAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWEST ISLANDS COMMUNITY SHARES — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHILDREN AID FOUNDATION — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCANADA CYCLES FOR KIDS — C$21,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetLES BANQUES ALIMENTAIRES DU QUÉBEC — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENT AND PEACE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Terry Fox Foundation — C$19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEva's Initiative — C$19,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

R. Howard Webster Fou…Jewish Community Foun…Wcpd FoundationLa Fondation du Grand…Fondation Saint-Patri…Les Moniales Carmélit…Hewitt FoundationLes Missionnaires Obl…Roman Catholic Episco…Centraide Du Grand Mo…Fondation DesjardinsLa Fabrique de la Par…
R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard WebsterQC12.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Wcpd Foundation · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · Fondation Saint-Patrick de Montréal/Montreal St-Patrick's F oundation · Les Moniales Carmélites de Montréal · Hewitt Foundation · Les Missionnaires Oblates de Saint-Boniface · Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of Toronto in Canada · Centraide Du Grand Montréal · Fondation Desjardins · La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Saint-Luc

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 78 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 829032986:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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