Ottawa, ON · Private foundation
Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada
The charity maintains a database of medical schools and related research facilities in the fields of cardiology oncology and psychiatry and primarily in connection with the funding of student research assesses the bases under which these organizations endeavour to promote excellence in these areas.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k16 grants · C$424k
- C$50k–250k3 grants · C$421k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROYAL OTTAWA FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH | C$200,000 |
| QUEEN`S UNIVERSITY | C$110,875 |
| CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH | C$110,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | C$27,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN | C$27,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OTTAW | C$27,500 |
| WESTERN UNIVERSITY | C$27,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY | C$27,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA | C$27,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA | C$27,500 |
| UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL | C$27,500 |
| UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL | C$27,500 |
| MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND | C$27,500 |
| MCMASTER UNIVERSITY | C$27,500 |
| MCGILL UNIVERSITY | C$25,600 |
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.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$130k 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
- QUQUEENS UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · C$962k · revenue +30%
- CUCARLETON UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2023 · C$842k · revenue +18%
- CRCHEO RESEARCH INSTITUTE4× · 2018–2021 · C$300k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- ROROYAL OTTAWA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · C$200k
- HOHELP OUR STUDENTS PROGRAMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +30%
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…
Enseignement et recherche universitaire
The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.
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…
Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche
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…
The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.
Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.
Providing education
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…
Post-Secondary Education
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…
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 Help Our Students Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 25 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.
- Who funds ROYAL OTTAWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEENS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARLETON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHEO RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds MCMASTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ↗
- Who funds DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS FOR LANARK CHILDREN AND YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HELP OUR STUDENTS PROGRAM ↗
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: Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research Society · Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation · Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada · The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/Societe de Leucemie & Lymphome Du Canada · Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada · Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada · The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation · Canadian Cancer Society - Société Canadienne Du Cancer · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario
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.