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North York, ON · Charitable organization

Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA (MDC) provides direct support to Canadians affected by Neuromuscular disorders that include: offering emotional support for adapting and coping to Canadians living with a neuromuscular disorder or caring for an individual with a neuromuscular disorder navigating and accessing healthcare and community services…

C$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$484k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$253k
  • C$50k–250k11 grants · C$956k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$484k
C$50,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ)C$484,158
Hospital For Sick ChildrenC$217,210
Children's Hospital Of Eastern OntarioC$150,000
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDRENC$82,500
The Governors of the UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$80,000
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$80,000
'ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNC$75,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$70,791
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWAC$50,000
'Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL)'C$50,000
'CSSS CHICOUTIMI Centre De Santé Et De Services Sociaux DeC$50,000
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTREC$50,000
YORK UNIVERSITYC$44,913
Universitätsklinikum Schleswig HolsteinC$40,936
MCMASTER UNIVERSITYC$40,000
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.3M · 21 repeat orgsC$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
13

Total granted

C$4.3M
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

90%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$732k 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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +54%
  • HF
    Hospital For Sick Children
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$564k · revenue +38%
  • MU
    McGill University Health Centre
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$250k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR GENE AND CELL THERAPY (JESSE'S JOURNEY)
    one grant, 2019 · C$300k · revenue +10%
  • ER
    EASTERN REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$164k · revenue 0%
  • TH
    THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN
    one grant, 2020 · C$116k

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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Universite Du Quebec

Enseignement et recherche universitaire

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2
Chu de Québec - Université Laval

Affilié à l'université laval le chu de québec - université laval dispense des soins et des services de santé généraux spécialisés et surspécialisés en y intégrant l'enseignement la recherche clinique et fondamentale et l'évaluation des…

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3
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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4
UniversitÉ Laval

Institution universitaire dont la mission est l'enseignement et la recherche

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5
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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6
UniversitÉ Du QuÉBec À MontrÉAl

La mission de l'université consiste à former des étudiants et à contributer à l'avancement des connaissances par des activités de recherche. toutes les ressources de l'université ont été dépensées dans le cadre le cardre de sa mission par…

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7
U.C.M.U. Montérégie
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8
Universite De Moncton

Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche

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9
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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10
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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11
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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12
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and the most unlike its peers is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. 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

26 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. 26 of the 42 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO — C$1,199,314 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetHospital For Sick Children — C$563,682 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR GENE AND CELL THERAPY (JESSE'S JOURNEY) — C$300,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMcGill University Health Centre — C$250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOttawa Hospital Health Research Institute — C$221,196 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY — C$164,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$160,544 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAVAL UNIVERSITY — C$157,392 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPITALIER DE L'UNIVERSITE DE MONTR'L — C$143,875 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$142,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE — C$137,345 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Governors of the UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$127,837 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$118,041 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$94,913 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE SAINTE-JUSTINE — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK — C$69,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIUSS SOCIAUX DU CENTRE-OUEST-DE-L ILE-DE-MONTREAL — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBloorView Research Institute — C$49,696 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEGEP DE JONQUIERE — C$47,600 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L' UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A CHICOUTIMI — C$24,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARITIMES - IWK HEALTH CENTRE — C$7,000 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.

Fondation Brain Canad…Société de Recherche …Canadian Cancer Socie…The Leukemia & Lympho…Breakthrough T1D Cana…The Kidney Foundation…Diabetes Canada Diabè…Cystic Fibrosis Canad…Parkinson Canada Inc.Foundation for Advanc…Fondation du grand dé…The Hospital for Sick…
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada FoundationQC13.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation · Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research Society · Canadian Cancer Society - Société Canadienne Du Cancer · The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/Societe de Leucemie & Lymphome Du Canada · Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada · The Kidney Foundation of Canada / la Fondation Canadienne Du Rein · Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada · Cystic Fibrosis Canada/Fibrose Kystique Canada · Parkinson Canada Inc. · Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine / Fondation Pour L'Avancement de la Médecine Familiale · Fondation du grand défi Pierre Lavoie · The Hospital for Sick Children 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 42 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under core health care.

Source object 107755837:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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