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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Kenneth M Molson Foundation

Donations to qualified donees in the fields of wildlife preservation and aeronautical engineering

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$276k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$210k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$982k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$276k
C$35,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$276,326
CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE FOUNDATIONC$229,000
MUSKOKA CONSERVANCYC$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPHC$128,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$100,000
UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A RIMOUSKIC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSORC$75,000
YORK UNIVERSITYC$50,000
ONTARIO NATUREC$50,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETYC$50,000
CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUMC$35,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYC$35,000
CANADIAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUMS CORPORATION FDNC$25,000
RIVER INSTITUTEC$20,000
ONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTREC$20,000
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.1M · 31 repeat orgsC$586k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
16

Total granted

C$6.1M
C$436k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+47%

Still filing today

84%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$150k 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

  • MC
    MUSKOKA CONSERVANCY
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +183%
  • CM
    CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$851k · revenue ×21 · 71% of their budget
  • CU
    CARLETON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$790k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    one grant, 2023 · C$78k
  • VA
    VANCOUVER AQUARIUM
    one grant, 2017 · C$40k · revenue -64%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
    one grant, 2017 · C$38k

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 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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2
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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3
Sci Canada Foundation

Conservation efforts through conducting surveys anti-poaching programs predation studies wildlife restoration and harvest initiatives programs education through scholarship programs for college students apprentice hunter programs support…

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4
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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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
World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada

World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…

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7
Universite Concordia

The main mission of the University is to provide post-secondary and graduate education. It engages in research public services and assists students faculties and researchers. Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science Gina Cody…

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8
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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9
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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10
The Canadian Section of the Wildlife Society / La Société de la Faune Section Canadienne

Educational programs courses learning units seminars workshops conferences and meetings. developing and evaluating educational resources and programs that increase knowledge skills and attitudes suportive of the protection of the…

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11
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation-Fondation Du Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Canada

The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…

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12
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Trent University. 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

32 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. 32 of the 49 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
28/32
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 budgetMUSKOKA CONSERVANCY — C$1,004,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE FOUNDATION — C$851,200 over 6y, 71% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$790,478 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$362,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A RIMOUSKI — C$355,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$301,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR — C$290,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$250,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN AVIATION AND SPACE MSUEUM — C$205,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetCANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM — C$195,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$180,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$135,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$121,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS & HUNTERS — C$110,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$98,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO NATURE — C$67,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWILDER INSTITUTE — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$50,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMOHAWK COLLEGE — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRIVER INSTITUTE — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVANCOUVER AQUARIUM — C$39,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$29,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBC CONSERVATION FOUNDATUION — C$26,794 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$24,480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY POUR LA NATURE ET LES PARCS DUE CANADA SECTION QUEBE — C$5,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds MUSKOKA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A RIMOUSKI ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR ↗
  • Who funds RYERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN AVIATION AND SPACE MSUEUM ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS & HUNTERS ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO WILDLIFE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO NATURE ↗
  • Who funds WILDER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TRENT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds MOHAWK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RIVER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER AQUARIUM ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds BC CONSERVATION FOUNDATUION ↗

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.

Td Friends of the Env…Ottawa Community Foun…World Wildlife Fund C…Canada GivesWeston Family Foundat…The McLean FoundationOntario Wildlife Foun…Takla FoundationThe Eric S. Margolis …Jackman FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…BenefAction Foundation
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON11.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · Canada Gives · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · The McLean Foundation · Ontario Wildlife Foundation · Takla Foundation · The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolis · Jackman Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · BenefAction Foundation

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 49 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 118979525:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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