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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

S M Blair Family Foundation

Supporting science technology communities and the arts in canada since 1982 the s.m.

C$448k
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
Regions reached
C$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k42 grants · C$186k
  • C$10k–50k19 grants · C$262k
C$5,000
Median grant
9
Regions reached
C$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$35,000
SOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYC$25,000
PROJECT FORESTC$25,000
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGC$15,000
LUMINATO FESTIVAL TORONTOC$15,000
CENTRE FOR AFFORABLE WATER AND SANITATION TECHNOLOGY (CAWST)C$13,000
60 MILLION GIRLS FOUNDATIONC$12,000
THE DISCOVER CENTREC$12,000
MUSEUM OF TORONTOC$10,000
MCGILL IGEMC$10,000
DENE NAHJO A PROJECT OF MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$10,000
WINTERGREEN STUDIOC$10,000
TRELLIST SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACTC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHC$10,000
KOOTENAY-COLUMBIA DISCOVER CENTRE SOCIETYC$10,000
02The need
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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$1.2M
Alberta
C$611k
British Columbia
C$318k
Quebec
C$120k
Nova Scotia
C$65k
Manitoba
C$59k
Saskatchewan
C$27k
New Brunswick
C$27k
Northwest Territories
C$13k
Prince Edward Island
C$12k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$2k

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.6M · 94 repeat orgsC$857k to everyone else

94 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
168

Total granted

C$1.6M
C$720k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+19%

Still filing today

99%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$137k 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

  • SA
    SOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    4× · 2019–2024 · C$80k · revenue +29%
  • SN
    SPIRIT NORTH
    3× · 2019–2023 · C$50k · revenue +202%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (ALSO KNOWN AS
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$40k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +146%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k
  • UG
    UBC GEERING UP ENGINEERING OUTREACH
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k

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.

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Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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2
Why Not Theatre

Why not theatre is an agile international theatre company based in toronto canada rooted in the values of innovation community and collaboration. our work is inventive cross-cultural and reflects our passion for the exploration of…

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3
Theatre Gargantua Inc.

Theatre gargantua is one of canada's leading multi-disciplinary theatre companies. each year we develop original canadian work through a collaborative ensemble-based process. our productions undergo rigorous phases of development and we…

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4
The Howl Experience

The Howl Experience offers two separate programs: Howl Explorations and Howl High. Howl Explorations - Howl gives its participants an opportunity to explore a variety of locations (Rockies Maritimes and Yukon). Through this program the…

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5
The Musical Stage Company

Produce mainstage musicals and digital concerts enriching the toronto arts scene. - offer ticket subsidies for students. - provide workshops to students at the performances and educational study guides. - offer a free training program for…

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6
Tech Spark Canada

Tech Spark is Canadas first tech and design school committed to empowering children of colour girls women and teachers through innovative education. We specialize in creating revising and teaching inquiry-based student-centered K-12…

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7
Inside Education Society of Alberta

Inside Education programs aim to create generations of engaged citizens who understand the important relationships betweenenvironment economy and society and who think critically and creatively about environmental topics and actively…

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8
EcoSchools Canada

EcoSchools Canada delivers programs to advance environmental education and leadership in K-12 schools across Canada. Ongoing programs include a certification program for K-12 schools that promotes and recognizes environmental learning and…

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9
Actua

Actua's mandate is to support deliver and advocate for the engagement of youth in stem programming that builds their confidence and skills. actua's network of member organizations focuses on reaching youth from under-served communities…

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10
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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11
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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12
Toronto Dance Theatre

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is a professional contemporary dance company dedicated to the research creation and production of original Canadian choreography. TDT bridges connections between artists and audiences in Toronto and beyond…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth and the most unlike its peers is Paisley Blues Festival. 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

237 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. 237 of the 284 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)
52
Early backer (in before they grew)
233/237
Grantees still filing
156/237
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (SAIT) — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$63,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING — C$60,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetART OF TIME ENSEMBLE — C$55,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetSPIRIT NORTH — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (ALSO KNOWN AS — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCrow's Theatre Circus — C$35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BOUNDLESS SCHOOL — C$34,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DISCOVER CENTRE — C$33,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRE FOR AFFORABLE WATER AND SANITATION TECHNOLOGY (CAWST) — C$31,460 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENTISTS IN SCHOOL — C$30,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF TORONTO HISTORY (OPERATING AS MYSEUM OF TORONTO) — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHOT DOCS — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$28,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budget60 MILLION GIRLS FOUNDATION — C$27,195 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetYOUTH SCIENCE CANADA — C$27,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDENE NAHJO A PROJECT OF MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA WEST FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE — C$25,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetRIVER INSTUTUE — C$25,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLUMINATO FESTIVAL TORONTO — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetStudents On Ice Foundation — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEATING STONE ORGANIZATION KENYA — C$23,600 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$23,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKAWARTHA LAKE FOOD SOURCE — C$23,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSAFE DRINKING WATER FOUNDATION — C$22,400 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetCANADIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$22,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWINTERGREEN STUDIO — C$20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Music Centre — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKOOTENAY-COLUMBIA DISCOVER CENTRE SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetOldman Watershed Council — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAboutFace Craniofacial Family Society — C$19,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCONCERTS IN CARE ONTARIO — C$18,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetRIPPLE FOUNDATION — C$16,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetYOUTH ASSISTING YOUTH — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGuelph Public Library — C$15,160 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEPHEN LEACOCK FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMCGILL IGEM — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MANITOBA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND ARTS INCORPORATED — C$15,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetRegent Park School of Music — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MANITOBA MUSEUM — C$14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRosedale Presbyterian Church — C$12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGREEN THUMBS GROWING KIDS — C$12,000 over 3y, 1.4% 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.

The Catherine and Max…F. K. Morrow Foundati…The McLean FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…The Henry White Kinne…Johansen-Larsen Found…Arthur & Audrey Cutte…Jackman FoundationThe George Lunan Foun…The Trottier Family F…The Charles H. Ivey F…The Slaight Family Fo…
The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen FoundationON26.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · The McLean Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Johansen-Larsen Foundation · Arthur & Audrey Cutten Foundation · Jackman Foundation · The George Lunan Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · The Charles H. Ivey Foundation · The Slaight Family 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 284 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 119152114:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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