Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Li Ka Shing (Canada) Foundation
The sole and exclusive objectives of the foundation are to disburse such moneys of the foundation by way of gifts as the foundation shall see fit to 'qualified donees' within the meaning of that term under the income tax act (canada); and to undertake charitable activities through agents or otherwise both within and outside of canada.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | C$8,983,800 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG | C$3,981,916 |
| THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG | C$3,641,404 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 7% of grant dollars (C$16M). The 93% that went abroad (C$202M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 93% of all-years giving (C$202M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +104860% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- TITECHNION- ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY5× · 2017–2022 · C$78M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY6× · 2017–2023 · C$37M
- UOUniversity of Oxford7× · 2017–2023 · C$20M
Funded once
- TITechnician - Isreal Institute of Technologyone grant, 2018 · C$16M
- TLThe Leland Sanford Junior University (Stanford University)one grant, 2017 · C$4.0M
- TUTHE UNIVERISTY OF HONG KONGone grant, 2019 · C$2.1M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
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…
The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.
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…
Carleton University provides post-secondary education.
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…
The University of Calgary had 37 400 full time and part time students in the 2023/2024 fiscal year from over 100 countries registered in the following 15 faculties: Art Cummung School of Medicine Environmental Design Graduate Studies…
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…
The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…
Post-Secondary Education
Instruction and research in a 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…
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Shurniak Gallery Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 26 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: 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.