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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Riviere Charitable Foundation

Grants awarded to other qualified donees for religious charitable and educational purposes.

C$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 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–50k2 grants · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$251k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.5M
C$51,117
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPHC$1,500,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$100,000
EDUCATION WITHOUT BORDERSC$100,000
CHURCHILL COLLEGE - UNIVERISTY OF CAMBRIDGEC$51,117
MAKEWAY FOUNDATIONC$25,000
SLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLDC$10,000
HOT DOCSC$7,500
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.5M · 7 repeat orgsC$444k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

C$3.5M
C$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+37%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$135k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$3.0M · revenue +12%
  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$270k · revenue +47%
  • HD
    HPT DOCS
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$78k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHURHILL COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
    one grant, 2021 · C$85k
  • CC
    CHURCHILL COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
    one grant, 2022 · C$78k
  • RU
    RYERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue +11%

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
Academics without Borders / Universitaires sans frontières

Academics without border mission is to help people in the developing world realize their dreams through higher education because education is the key to a flourishing society and a sustainable world. academics without borders' projects are…

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2
Schools Without Borders/Ecoles Sans Frontieres

SWB is changing the face of education. We support educators that practice learning outside of the classroom. We document their successes and failures and together we share stories that illuminate the future of education. Our platform has…

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3
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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4
Canadian Surgical Eye Expeditions

Restore sight to people in developing countries

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5
Uniwater Education Limited

Currently programs are running or are in the process of being initiated at the following universities: sokoine university of agriculture tanzania); ladoke akintola university of technology (nigeria); university of zimbabwe; mzuzu…

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6
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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7
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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8
Viaduct Technology in Education Society

Despite some challenges TIES continued to deliver benefits to students in developing countries through three ongoing projects in 2024: 1) The most notable TIES project in 2024 was the Kenya University Scholarships Project; two young women…

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9
International Institute for Sustainable Development/Institutinternational Du Developpement Durable

Iis'ds programs conduct rigorous research and engage citizens buisness and policy makers in the shared goal of developing sustainability. iisd's program areas include economic law and policy water tracking progress energy ad resilience

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10
The Canada-International Scientific Exchange Program (Cisepo

Cisepo has a broad portfolio of medical research and education programs in the context of peacebuilding and professional development. these programs use the 'cisepo model' for using medical education to promote relationship building and…

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11
Médecins du Monde
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12
Mountain Gorilla Conservation Society of Canada Society

We provided one full scholarship in the master's degree program in wildlife health and management at the Makerere University in Kampala Uganda. The funds were given to the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada in support of the ConserVet…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada and the most unlike its peers is Hot Docs. 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$3,000,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$270,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION WITHOUT BORDERS — C$100,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetHPT DOCS — C$77,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWAZI KIDS — C$30,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetMAKEWAY FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt.Andrews UC Refugee Fund — C$20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetABORIGINAL LEGAL SERVICES — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetERDO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDucks Unlimited — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENSINGTON HOSPICE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$1,000 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ↗
  • Who funds DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds HPT DOCS ↗
  • Who funds RYERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SWAZI KIDS ↗
  • Who funds MAKEWAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St.Andrews UC Refugee Fund ↗
  • Who funds ABORIGINAL LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ERDO ↗
  • Who funds SLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited ↗
  • Who funds KENSINGTON HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)BC5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (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 21 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 833789167:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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