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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

Praxis Spinal Cord Institute

Praxis’ four programming areas are: cure (translational research) care (best practice implementation) commercialization and persons with lived experience (plex).

C$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$8k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$134k
  • C$50k–250k12 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.4M
C$60,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$1,014,572
UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORKC$423,000
CIUSS DU CENTRE-SUD-DE-L'ILE-DE-MONTRÉALC$180,000
REGIONAL HEATLH AUTHORITY BC$130,000
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$110,000
NOVA SCOTIA HEALTH AUTHORITYC$110,000
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBAC$109,985
OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTEC$80,000
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$65,000
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$60,000
SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTEC$60,000
LAWSON RESEARCH INSTITUTEC$60,000
HAMILTON HEATLH SCIENCES CORPORATIONC$60,000
TECHNOLOGY FOR LIVINGC$50,000
UNITY HEALTH TORONTOC$40,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$14M
British Columbia
C$9.6M
Alberta
C$1.2M
Quebec
C$1.2M
Nova Scotia
C$514k
New Brunswick
C$491k
Saskatchewan
C$423k
Manitoba
C$405k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$212k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$29M · 39 repeat orgsC$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
16

Total granted

C$29M
C$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+29%

Still filing today

92%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$9.6M · revenue +55%
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +51%
  • RH
    REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY B
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$736k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
    one grant, 2020 · C$400k
  • CF
    CANADIAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$203k · revenue +83%
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · C$199k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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6
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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7
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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8
Partners in Research Canada
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9
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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10
Universite Du Quebec

Enseignement et recherche universitaire

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11
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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12
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ Institut De Recherche De L'hopital D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Neil Squire Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 56 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
37/48
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 UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$9,562,891 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO NEUROTRAUMA FOUNDATION — C$6,895,663 over 4y, 50% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK — C$2,081,594 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY B — C$735,809 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCIUSS DU CENTRE-SUD-DE-L'ILE-DE-MONTRÉAL — C$727,492 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$653,385 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$627,405 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA HEALTH AUTHORITY — C$623,999 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOttawa Hospital Research Institute — C$569,767 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$542,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Saskatchewan — C$482,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES CORPORATION — C$481,013 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARS DISCOVER DISTRICT — C$398,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$367,983 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH STANDARD ORGANIZATION — C$354,622 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLawson Research Institute — C$321,020 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$298,816 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWINNIPEG REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY — C$289,667 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCIUSS Centre-Sud-de-L'Lle-de-Montreal — C$283,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCIUSSS-CN (IRDPQ) — C$281,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$225,185 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY HEALTH TORONTO — C$225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL SMITH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH RESEARCH — C$225,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY — C$202,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEastern Regional Integrated Health Authority — C$187,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE — C$180,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Michael's Hospital Foundation — C$180,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES — C$178,776 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Western Ontario — C$160,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSam Sullivan Disability Foundation — C$153,600 over 2y, 55% of budgetBC Wheelchair Basketball Society — C$121,600 over 2y, 20% of budgetNeil Squire Society — C$121,600 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBC Wheelchair Sports Association — C$121,600 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetCanadian Paraplegic Association (BC) — C$121,600 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetAlberta Paraplegic Foundation — C$120,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$74,760 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOLOGY FOR LIVING — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBritish Columbia Institute of Technology — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLA CORPORATION DE L'ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTREAL — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN SPINAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION — C$31,878 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetmoelle ÉpiniÈRE ET MOTRICITÉ — C$22,890 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSPINAL CORD INJURY-ONTARIO — C$16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARACHUTE LEADERS IN INJURY PREVENTION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITÉ LAVAL — C$14,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO BRAIN INSTITTUE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetABILITY NEW BRUNSWICK — C$2,000 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.

Fondation Brain Canad…Cystic Fibrosis Canad…Canadian Cancer Socie…Société de Recherche …Breakthrough T1D Cana…The Kidney Foundation…Parkinson Canada Inc.Weston Family Foundat…Ontario Neurotrauma F…Thistledown FoundationDiabetes Canada Diabè…The Hiroc Foundation
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada FoundationQC14.4× affinity10 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 · Cystic Fibrosis Canada/Fibrose Kystique Canada · Canadian Cancer Society - Société Canadienne Du Cancer · Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research Society · Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada · The Kidney Foundation of Canada / la Fondation Canadienne Du Rein · Parkinson Canada Inc. · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation · Thistledown Foundation · Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada · The Hiroc 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 56 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 supportive health care.

Source object 819755299:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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