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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

Mierins Family Foundation

The foundation disbursed funds to various qualified donees.

C$551k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$90k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$200k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$250k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$250,000
THE SIR MORTIMER B. DAVIS JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$200,000
SENATORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - HOT 89.9 WOMAN'S GOLFC$20,000
ORKIDSTRA-SISTERNA OTTAWAC$15,000
CHRISTMAS CHEER FOUNDATIONC$15,000
KIDS KICKING CANCER | HEROES CIRCLE CANADAC$10,000
CHRISTMAS CHEER FOUNDATIONC$10,000
SENATORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - STARS BY THE SHOREC$10,000
SENATORS COMMUNTIY FOUNDATION - MIKE MCCANN CHARITY GOLFC$10,000
JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITALC$5,000
SENATORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - BLACK RED AND GOLD GALAC$5,000
LAKESHORE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.2M · 11 repeat orgsC$110k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

C$3.2M
C$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$70k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TO
    THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +44%
  • MN
    MONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE AND HOSPITAL
    4× · 2019–2022 · C$1.0M · revenue +24%
  • JG
    JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAITON
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$650k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • OV
    OTTAWA VALLEY SEARCH & RESCUE DOG ASSOC.graduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue ×14
  • OR
    OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +11%
  • LF
    LIAM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k

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
Fondation du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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2
La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/the Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation

The montreal children's hospital foundation is devoted to raising funds for health care research and teaching activities for children and pregnant women primarily for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre and qualified donees.

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3
Fondation de l'hôpital Lasalle

Recueillir et administrer des fonds pour effectuer des dons en équipements à l'hôpital de lasalle afin de renouveler 'équipement médical spécialisé.

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4
Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De Montreal/Montreal Heart Institute Foundation

La fondation de l'institut de cardiologie de ontréal recueille et administre des fonds pour soutenir la recherche la prévention et l'enseignement prodigués par l'institut de cardiologie de montréal. elle encourage ainsi l'excellence d'une…

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5
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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6
Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation

To receive and invest funds and apply them to health care activities research and the teaching mandate for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre it's related institutions and other qualified donees with a similar mission.

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7
The Ottawa Hospital/L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital is a three-campus hospital model with two full service campuses (civic and general). the objective of the hospital is to provide quality patient care through education and research and is dedicated to improving the…

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8
Fondation De L'hopital Royal Victoria/Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation

The royal victoria hospital foundation is devoted to raising funds for research. teaching and patient care, for the royal victoria hospital of the mcgill university health center (muhc) and its affiliated institutions

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9
Fondation de l'hôpital Jean-Talon

Contribuer à l'amélioration de la qualité des soins et des services offerts à la clientèle et à la promotion de la santé dans la communauté en soutenant financièrement le développement de l'hôpital jean-talon et du ciusss du…

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10
Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal

Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal

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11
Fondation 'pour enfants seulement'/'Just for kids'foundation

The organization raises funds to purchase medical equipment for the montreal children's hospital through various fundraising activities.

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12
La fondation de l'institut thoracique de Montréal / the Montréal Chest Institute Foundation

Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Fondation De L'hÔPital GÉNÉRal De MontrÉAl the MontrÉAl General Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Harmony House Shelter. 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

20 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. 20 of the 22 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
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 budgetTHE OTTAWA HOSPITAL — C$1,250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE AND HOSPITAL — C$1,005,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAITON — C$650,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHRISTMAS CHEER FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetHARMONY HOUSE — C$55,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSELWYN HOUSE ASSOCIATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSENATORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - HOT 89.9 WOMAN'S GOLF — C$45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORKIDSTRA-SISTERNA OTTAWA — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER | HEROES CIRCLE CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIAM FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION SANTA CABRINI — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKESHORE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION DU GRAND DEFI PIERRE LAVOIE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION MARTIN-MATTE — C$1,000 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.

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.

Wcpd FoundationJewish Community Foun…Conam Charitable Foun…Fondation Groupe AGF …Ottawa Community Foun…Fondation Mirella & L…La Fondation du Grand…United Way East Ontar…Shoppers Foundation f…Charitable Gift Funds…Private Giving Founda…Aqueduct Foundation
Wcpd FoundationON10.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wcpd Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Conam Charitable Foundation · Fondation Groupe AGF / AGF Group Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Fondation Mirella & Lino Saputo · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct 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 22 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 730451481:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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