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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation Inc

In 2024 MWMFF continues to promote focus on early learning expansion as aligned to and an extension of public education.

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$973k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$500k
C$150,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Atkinson Centre for Society and Child DevelopmentC$250,000
Ontario Coalition for Better Child CareC$250,000
Building Blocks for Child CareC$200,000
The Conversation Canada.C$150,000
University of MontrealC$150,000
Mount Saint Vincent UniversityC$150,000
University of New BrunswickC$150,000
YWCA HalifaxC$100,000
The Prosperity ProjectC$73,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$3.5M
Quebec
C$1.3M
Nova Scotia
C$950k
New Brunswick
C$700k
British Columbia
C$475k
Manitoba
C$150k
Prince Edward Island
C$95k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$55k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.6M · 15 repeat orgsC$526k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

C$6.6M
C$303k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+49%

Still filing today

87%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$223k 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

  • OC
    Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +216% · 84% of their budget
  • UO
    University of Toronto
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +43%
  • UD
    Universite de Montreal
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$980k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • GB
    George Brown College Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +21%
  • CH
    Caring, Helping And Nurturing Children Every Step (C.H.A.N.Cgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$70k · revenue +144%
  • MU
    Memorial University of Newfoundland
    one grant, 2018 · C$55k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
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
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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3
Universite Du Quebec

Enseignement et recherche universitaire

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4
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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5
The University of Western Ontario

Post secondary research and education

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6
Yukon University

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

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7
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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8
Saint Mary's 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…

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9
University of Saskatchewan

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…

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10
The University of Lethbridge

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…

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11
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is The Prosperity Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
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 budgetOntario Coalition for Better Child Care — C$1,230,000 over 7y, 84% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$1,170,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversite de Montreal — C$980,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMount Saint Vincent University — C$700,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of New Brunswick — C$550,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$350,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMartin Family Initiative — C$325,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetYWCA Halifax — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMcMaster University — C$200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRed River College — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNova Scotia Health Research Foundation — C$150,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of Northern British Columbia — C$125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAERIC Inc. (Conference Board of Canada) — C$116,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGeorge Brown College Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Prosperity Project — C$73,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCaring, Helping And Nurturing Children Every Step (C.H.A.N.C — C$70,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMemorial University of Newfoundland — C$55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChagnon Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Moncton — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Prince Edward Island — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndspire — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Community Foundat…The Leonard FoundationWalker Wood FoundationThe Joyce Family Foun…River Philip Foundati…The Community Foundat…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…United Way Maritimes/…Charitable Gift Funds…Vancouver FoundationStrategic Charitable …United Way East Ontar…
The Community Foundation of Prince Edward Island IncPE9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Prince Edward Island Inc · The Leonard Foundation · Walker Wood Foundation · The Joyce Family Foundation · River Philip Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Vancouver Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving 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.

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 23 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 893005249:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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