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Grand Bend, ON · Private foundation

Phil McNamee Charitable Foundation

Scholarships for high school students to pursue post-secondary education who have overcome obstacles and need financial assistance.

C$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$80,065
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thames Valley Education FoundationC$80,065
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$554k · 4 repeat orgsC$9k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

C$554k
C$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+10%

Still filing today

75%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • TV
    Thames Valley Education Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$551k · revenue +62%
  • WS
    Women's Sledge Hockey
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$1k
  • TD
    The Diocese of London
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$1k · revenue -25%

Funded once

  • HH
    Hamilton Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +200%
  • CR
    Canadian Red Cross
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue -47%
  • AB
    Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue +970%

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
Uhn Foundation

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…

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2
Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all…

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3
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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4
Canadian Health Foundation
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5
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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6
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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7
The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre / La fondation du cancer des cèdres au centre universitaire de santé McGill

Purchases diagnostic equipments improve facilities for treatment and care of cancer patients continue to develop the cansupport program which offer patients and their families for psychological and humanitarian assistance support cancer…

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8
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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9
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation

The Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation raises funds and manages donor gifts for the purpose of supporting outstanding patient care at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. This includes raising funds for identified capital…

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10
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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11
Canadian General Surgery Foundation

To provide funds for research in the area of general surgery in canada.

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12
London Health Sciences Foundation

Fundraising programs provide funding for the enhancement of patient care research education and capital projects for London Health Sciences Centre.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Ways Mental Health Support. 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

15 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. 15 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThames Valley Education Foundation — C$551,237 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetHamilton Health Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Diocese of London — C$1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAusable Bayfield Conservation Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCrohn s Colitis Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGODERICH TO GUELPH RAIL TRAIL INC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWays Mental Health Support — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanada Helps — C$703 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Terry Fox Foundation — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Mental Health — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrian Tumour Foundation of Canada — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust for Kids Foundation — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Royal Canadian Legion — C$25 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.

United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way of Greater TorontoON4.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.

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 16 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 844636605:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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