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Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation

The major programs of the foundation are: a) the investigation and support of novel innovative and disruptive medical research and practices; b) economic education; c) preservation of heritage buildings; and d) relief of poverty.

C$5.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$56k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$140k
  • C$50k–250k14 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$250k+7 grants · C$4.4M
C$50,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$105M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$1,142,000
TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONC$1,100,090
1988 FOUNDATIONC$615,000
THE SALVATION ARMY BRITISH COLUMBIA DIVISIONC$600,000
UNIVERSITYC$382,700
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$332,500
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$275,000
CANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATIONC$225,000
THE MACDONALD-LAURIER INSTITUTEC$150,000
VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF BRITISH COLUC$150,000
CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENTC$100,000
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$80,000
LAWSON RESEARCH INSTITUTEC$80,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$75,000
INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL STUDIESC$75,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$34M · 33 repeat orgsC$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
14

Total granted

C$34M
C$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+11%

Still filing today

97%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.5M 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

  • CC
    CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.4M · revenue +6%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$4.8M · revenue +45%
  • TF
    TERRY FOX FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$4.3M · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (NOTE: CRA REG 2019 07 29)
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$73k
  • MS
    MICHAEL SMITH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
    one grant, 2022 · C$60k · revenue -1%
  • SA
    SERVANTS ANONYMOUS FOUNDATION (CANADA)
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k

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.

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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
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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3
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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4
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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5
Bc Sport & Exercise Medicine Research Foundation

Conduct research into sports related injuries and treatment -disburse research awards to graduate students performing research -involve in the planning and implementation of a multi-faceted research program including presentation and…

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6
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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7
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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8
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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9
The Gairdner Foundation

The purpose of The Gairdner Foundation is to encourage study and research into medical/health sciences. We provide awards to the world's best and brightest biomedical researchers in recognition of their outstanding discoveries and…

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10
Pacific Parkinson's Research Institute - Vancouver Canada Society

The pacific parkinson's research institute is the fundraising partner of the pacific parkinsons' research centre and integral part of the djavad mowafaghian centre for brain health at ubc. we enable donors to contribute to leading edge…

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11
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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12
The Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research

The canadian foundation for dietetic research (cfdr) was created by dietitians of canada (dc) the professional association for dietitians and incorporated in 1991 as a charitable foundation. our mandate: enhancing the health of canadians…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Chamber Music. 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

61 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. 61 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
32/61
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$5,394,595 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE — C$4,800,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$4,310,090 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetTHE CANADIAN COLLEGE OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE — C$4,167,965 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$3,041,304 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRASER INSTITUTE — C$1,724,348 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$1,542,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY — C$1,350,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY BRITISH COLUMBIA DIVISION — C$1,200,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,146,169 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$975,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATION — C$925,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetBC CANCER AGENCY — C$804,402 over 3y, 0.1% of budget1988 FOUNDATION — C$615,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$459,059 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAWSON RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$410,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$332,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCKNW KIDS' FUND — C$275,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetTHE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTR — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSERVANTS ANOYNYMOUS FOUNDATION (CANADA) — C$184,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$175,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$175,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MACDONALD-LAURIER INSTITUTE — C$150,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$145,470 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBREAST CANCER CANADA — C$140,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT — C$100,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$99,532 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL STUDIES — C$75,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMICHAEL SMITH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH RESEARCH — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCD HOWE INSTITUTE — C$55,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRAIN CANADA FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRE HEALTH — C$45,541 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF B.C. — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUND — C$44,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION — C$37,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR — C$27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECONDSTREET.ORG — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetVANCOAUVER WEST SIDE THEATRE — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND CANADA — C$17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetL'CHAIM ADULT DAYCARE SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTIKVA HOUSING SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$10,104 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL BC — C$8,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Zlc FoundationLohn FoundationDiamond FoundationMel and Geri Davis Ch…The John Dobson Found…Nicola Wealth Private…The Zacks Family Char…Hunter Family Foundat…Donner Canadian Found…Jewish Federation of …Pirie Foundation Non-…Kahn Foundation
Zlc FoundationBC15× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust · The John Dobson Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Zacks Family Charitable Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Donner Canadian Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Pirie Foundation Non-Profit Priv Asso · Kahn 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 64 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 charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 119310241:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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