Concord, ON · Private foundation
Paul B Helliwell Foundation
Thr foundation receives funds from various sources/investments then it distributes/donates these funds to certain other charities at the discretion of the trustees.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
- C$50k–250k4 grants · C$483k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY KINGSTON HOSPITAL | C$135,000 |
| MACKENZIE HEALTH RICHMOND HILL HOSPITAL | C$130,000 |
| KAYLA'S CHILDREN | C$118,000 |
| WEST PARK FOUNDATION | C$100,000 |
| GIANT STEPS TORONTO | C$12,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$135k 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
- HRHUMBER RIVER HOSPITAL4× · 2017–2020 · C$1.0M · revenue +0%
- QUQUEENS UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · C$525k · revenue +27%
- KCKAYLA'S CHILDREN8× · 2017–2024 · C$476k · revenue +346%
Funded once
- WPWEST PARK HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · C$150k
- THTHE HOME FOR HEROES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue -30%
- JCJNF CANADAone grant, 2023 · C$100k
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.
We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…
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…
To provide funding and support help purchase vital medical equipment enhance patient care programs enable important research and improve the health care facilities in richmond.
Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.
To fund facilitate and promote high quality patient care through the provision of financial support for development equipment education and research at royal columbian hospital. the foundation receives gifts bequests funds and property…
North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…
Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs…
Norfolk General Hospital Foundation is a public foundation which receives and maintains funds to use and apply from time to time on all or part of the capital or income therefrom the benefit of Norfolk General Hospital's medical…
Donates funds to halton healthcare services corporation to benefit the georgetown hospital site
Erie shores health foundation raises capital for new equipment and building infrastructure for erie shores healthcare; capital campaigns currently being supported include diagnostic imaging mri equipment and urology. erie shores health…
The royal victoria regional high centre foundation raises to enhance facilities and services at the royal victoria regional health care. the funds are provided primarily for capital equipment facility expansion and educational purposes.
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and interest therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the Income Tax Act (Canada). To undertake the above with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Hospitals Kingston Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Giant Steps Toronto Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 HUMBER RIVER HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEENS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KAYLA'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WEST PARK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACKENZIE HEALTH RICHMOND HILL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY KINGSTON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR HEROES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JNF CANADA ↗
- Who funds GIANT STEPS TORONTO ↗
- Who funds RIDE FOR KAREN ↗
- Who funds SCOTT MISSION TORONTO ↗
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: Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.