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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

Sheila and Paul Martin Family Foundation/Fondation FamilialeSheila et Paul Martin

The purpose of the foundation is to donate monies to charities and other qualified donees which are focused on education the arts the environment and health.

C$916k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$700k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$26k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$140k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$700k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARTIN FAMILY INITIATIVEC$700,000
LOWER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$50,000
AWE ART WINDSOR-ESSEXC$25,000
CENTRAIDE OF GREATER MONTREALC$20,000
THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATIONC$20,000
CANADIAN RED CROSS: WILDFIRE RELIEFC$20,000
OPERA DE MONTREALC$15,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CANADIAN GUILD OF CRAFTSC$10,000
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
ORCHESTRE CLASSIQUE DE MONTREALC$10,000
VISUAL ARTS CENTREC$5,000
GIANT STEPS MONTREALC$5,000
PEMBROKE HORTICULTURE SOCIETYC$5,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADAC$5,000
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.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$95k · 3 repeat orgsC$861k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
14

Total granted

C$95k
C$861k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$861k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • AA
    AWE ART WINDSOR-ESSEX
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$50k · revenue +6%
  • TM
    THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$30k · revenue +75%
  • CG
    CANADIAN GUILD OF CRAFTS
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$15k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • MF
    MARTIN FAMILY INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2024 · C$700k · revenue 0%
  • LC
    LOWER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · C$50k · revenue 0%
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS: WILDFIRE RELIEF
    one grant, 2024 · C$20k · revenue 0%

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 de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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3
Musee Des Beaux-Arts De Montreal / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Encourager les arts diffuser les connaissances artistiques acquérir conserver collectionner mettre en valeur et exposer les oeuvres d'art.

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4
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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5
Fondation De L'opera De Montreal

Aider au soutien et à l'essor de l'opéra de montréal par le recueilliement de capital sous forme entre autres de dons de legs et autres contributions dont l'appariement de patrimoine canadien et de mécénat placements culture québec et par…

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6
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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7
Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De Montreal/Montreal Heart Institute Foundation

La fondation de l'institut de cardiologie de ontréal recueille et administre des fonds pour soutenir la recherche la prévention et l'enseignement prodigués par l'institut de cardiologie de montréal. elle encourage ainsi l'excellence d'une…

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8
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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9
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Faire connaître probouvoir et conserver l'art québébois contemporain et assurer une présence de l'art contemporain d'ailleurs par des acquisitions des expositions et d'autres activités (ateliers de créationm visites et médiation programme…

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10
UniversitÉ Du QuÉBec À MontrÉAl

La mission de l'université consiste à former des étudiants et à contributer à l'avancement des connaissances par des activités de recherche. toutes les ressources de l'université ont été dépensées dans le cadre le cardre de sa mission par…

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11
Fondation Université du Québec

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

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12
La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/the Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation

The montreal children's hospital foundation is devoted to raising funds for health care research and teaching activities for children and pregnant women primarily for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre and qualified donees.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pembroke Horticultural Society. 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

17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
2/17
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 budgetMARTIN FAMILY INITIATIVE — C$700,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAWE ART WINDSOR-ESSEX — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS: WILDFIRE RELIEF — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAIDE OF GREATER MONTREAL — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN GUILD OF CRAFTS — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOPERA DE MONTREAL — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST. MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORCHESTRE CLASSIQUE DE MONTREAL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIANT STEPS MONTREAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY: LANDON PEARSON CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEMBROKE HORTICULTURE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetVISUAL ARTS CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE — 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.

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 Azrieli Foundatio…Jewish Community Foun…Morris and Rosalind G…Aqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…La Fondation du Grand…Wcpd FoundationBenefAction FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation AzrieliQC8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · Wcpd Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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 17 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 733685549:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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