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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

Reader's Digest Foundation of Canada

The readers digest foundation contributes financially to the support of university-level journalism education as well as national organizations directly involved in advancing fundamental jounalistic principles and standards.

C$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$7,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMBER COLLEGEC$10,000
THE SHERIDAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED LEC$8,000
THE NARWHAL NEWS SOCIETYC$7,000
CENTRAIDE DU GRAND MONTREALC$1,137
THE DEPOT COMMUNITY FOOD CENTERC$50
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$444k · 24 repeat orgsC$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
41

Total granted

C$444k
C$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+37%

Still filing today

96%
88%

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

  • CU
    Carleton University
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$110k · revenue +18%
  • CU
    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$99k · revenue +37%
  • RU
    Ryerson University
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$52k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • TF
    TULA FOUNDATION (HAKAI MAGAZINE)graduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$12k · revenue +340%
  • CE
    Canadian Education Association/Association Canadienne d'Educ
    one grant, 2017 · C$11k · revenue -46%
  • CU
    CARLETON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k

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
Fondation du Centre des Sciences de Montréal / Montreal Science Centre Foundation

La fondaiton a pour but de promouvoir une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de la science des technologies et de leur histoire.

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2
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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3
Fondation du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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4
Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation

To receive and invest funds and apply them to health care activities research and the teaching mandate for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre it's related institutions and other qualified donees with a similar mission.

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5
La Fondation De L'hÔPital GÉNÉRal De MontrÉAl the MontrÉAl General Hospital Foundation

Distribute funds to the benefit of the montreal general hospital mcgill university health centre and affiliated entities of mcgill university academic health centre and other organizations of the quebec health network for equipment…

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6
Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal

Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal

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7
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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8
La fondation de l'institut thoracique de Montréal / the Montréal Chest Institute Foundation

Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre

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9
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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10
Fondation Du Centre Hospitalier De L'universite De Montreal

La foundation du chum a pour objectifs d'établir d'organiser de maintenir d'administrer et de développer des fonds pour promouvoir l'amélioration des soins l'excellence de l'enseignement et l'avancement de la recherche en général au centre…

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11
L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

The charity carries out all forms of medical research. the programs provide physical space as well as financial and personnel services to facilitate the work of researchers.

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12
Fondation Université du Québec

Octroi de bourses et financement de projets de recherche ou de développement pour les institutions universitaires.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/the Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Algoma Residential Community Hospice. 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

59 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. 59 of the 65 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
48/59
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 budgetCarleton University — C$110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$98,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRyerson University — C$52,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLa Fondation de l'Université Laval — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHERIDAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED LE — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BANFF CENTRE — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMBER COLLEGE — C$26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentraide du Grand Montréal — C$19,451 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTULA FOUNDATION (HAKAI MAGAZINE) — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCanadian Education Association/Association Canadienne d'Educ — C$11,345 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Board of Education of School District 5, Southeast Koote — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUQAM — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Board of Education of School District No. 45 (West Vanco — C$5,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS (UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS APPEAL) — C$820 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA — C$579 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON: CANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$551 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA — C$450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSWAM VANCOUVER — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDÉPÔT ALIMENTAIRE BDG-VIA CANADAHELPS.ORG — C$250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA Montérégie — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCAs of Québec Foundation — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIVE WOMEN'S SHELTER OF MONTREAL — C$222 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$215 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION DU CENTRE DES FEMMES DE MONTRÉAL — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION DES CENTRES DE LA JEUNESSE ET DE LA FAMILLE BATSHA — C$200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST.MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY (BC FLOODS) — C$125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION DES MALADIES DU COEUR ET DE L'AVC DU CANADA — C$104 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION 24H TREMBLANT — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCH HOSPICE — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA - DOG GUIDES — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD BREWERY MISSION FOUNDATION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESS — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEUCAN — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION MIRA — C$100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION HÔPITAL CHARLES-LEMOYNE — C$80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION OF MONTRE — C$75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAL HEART INSTUTUTE FOUNDATION — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — C$70 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.

Jewish Community Foun…Claudine and Stephen …CN Employees' and Pen…La Fondation du Grand…The Stellabar Foundat…Maxwell Cummings Fami…Fondation Philantra P…The J W McConnell Fam…Centraide Du Grand Mo…Aqueduct FoundationThe Trottier Family F…Raymond James Canada …
Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de MontréalQC15.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Claudine et Stephen Bronfman · CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · The Stellabar Foundation · Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation - Fondation de la Famille Maxwell Cummings · Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Centraide Du Grand Montréal · Aqueduct Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Raymond James Canada 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 65 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 2024-06-30, 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 advancing education.

Source object 887281392:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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