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Waterloo, ON · Private foundation

Mistera Foundation

Mistera Foundation is a private family foundation which intends to donate funds for charitable purposes to qualified donees primarily charities registered under the income tax act throughout canada.

C$640k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$479k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$141k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$479k
C$141,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RCAF FOUNDATIONC$479,000
MAITH FOUNDATIONC$141,000
CANADA IRELAND FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CANADA IRELAND FOUNDATIONC$10,000
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.2M · 7 repeat orgsC$946k 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 +18% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

C$3.2M
C$805k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$141k 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

  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$823k · revenue +45%
  • RH
    Rideau Hall Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$670k · revenue +118%
  • UO
    University of Toronto
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$200k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • WL
    WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERISTY
    one grant, 2019 · C$400k · revenue +13%
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$105k · revenue +69%
  • CG
    CENTRE GREY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue -56%

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
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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2
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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7
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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8
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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9
The Engineering Institute of Canada Fund

The recognition of excellence and the advancement of engineering and engineering education in canada.

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10
O a C Alumni Foundation

Scholarships and awards at the university of guelph special initiatives grants programs at the university of guelph

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11
Canadian Association of University Teachers Foundation Fond ation de l'association Canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université
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12
Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa

Student awards programme

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rideau Hall Foundation / Fondation Rideau Hall and the most unlike its peers is Child Witness Centre of Waterloo Region. 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
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 budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$823,475 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRCAF FOUNDATION — C$807,792 over 2y, 57% of budgetRideau Hall Foundation — C$670,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION TRUST — C$500,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERISTY — C$400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAITH FOUNDATION — C$141,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Canada — C$105,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCENTRE GREY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVETERANS TRANSITION NETWORK — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA IRELAND FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE — C$27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Regina — C$24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUFFY HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChild Witness Centre — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS OF CANADA REGIMENTAL TRUST — C$5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetKitchener Conestoga Rotary Club — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Toronto FoundationBurgundy Legacy Found…Charitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct FoundationThe Winnipeg Foundati…The Calgary FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Strategic Charitable …Abundance CanadaBenefAction FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
Toronto FoundationON7.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · The Winnipeg Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Abundance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 20 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 818663114:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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