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Montreal, QC · Charitable organization

Simon Chang Foundation for Change

Its purposes are to advance education by providing publicly available scholarships bursaries and other forms of financial assistance to students in their final year at canadian universities or in vocation art programs

C$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$20k
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$10k6 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
C$1,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$68k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMSBC$20,000
DONALD BERMAN GERIATRIC FOUNDATIONC$8,000
EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN FOUNDATIONC$3,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYC$1,000
THE HOLLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCC$1,000
KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$1,000
MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITYC$1,000
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$148k · 9 repeat orgsC$64k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

C$148k
C$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
43%

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%’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

  • E
    EMSB
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$73k · revenue +25%
  • DB
    DONALD BERMAN GERIATRIC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$40k · revenue +398% · 46% of their budget
  • TH
    THE HOLLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$6k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AUXILIARY OF THE SIR MORTIMER B. DAVIS - JEWISH GENEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +53%
  • EM
    ENGLISH MONTREAL SCHOOL BOARD-INSPIRATIONS
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k
  • KP
    KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$2k · revenue +64%

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 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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2
Emily Carr University of Art and Design Trust Fund

Solicits and manages endowment funds for scholarships and bursaries for emily carr university students.

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3
Ubc Alumni Association Educational Endowment Trust

During the reporting period the charity awarded bursaries to ubc students.

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4
Mount Royal University

Mount royal university provides post secondary education in the areas of business science and the arts. the mount royal university foundation receives donations and issues all tax receipts; the foundation then transfers the funds to the…

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5
Bourses d'études McCall MacBain à McGill / McCALL MacBAIN Scholarships at McGILL

The foundation promotes education by providing publicly available comprehensive scholarships in particular through the provision of a full graduate scholarship at mcgill university that will provide students with the mentorship…

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6
Wts Canadian Education Foundation

Wts canadian education foundation grants scholarships to high-potential students enrolled in post-secondary programs relating to transportation

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7
Mount Royal University Foundation

The mount royal university foundation received donations that support programs and scholarships administered and delivered at mount royal university

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8
The Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology

Ongoing collectives of donations to our scholarships bursaries and awards program is an initiative that supports new and returning students on campus achieve their academic goals

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9
Habib University Foundation Canada

The Foundation runs a scholarship program. In 2024 the successful applicants were students at Habib University in Karachi Pakistan.

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10
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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11
Adler University Vancouver Foundation

Making gifts to qualified donees

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12
University Womens Club of Vancouver Trust Fund for Education

The trust fund for education awards scholarships and bursaries. the trust fund distributes its monies to universities colleges and other institutions in order to help students further their academic studies.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holland College Foundation Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Donald Berman Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
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 budgetEMSB — C$72,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUXILIARY OF THE SIR MORTIMER B. DAVIS - JEWISH GENE — C$50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetDONALD BERMAN GERIATRIC FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetEMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN — C$12,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HOLLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC. — C$6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOMCHEI SHABBOS — C$300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH RIVKAH ACADEMY — C$100 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.

Simon Chang and Phyll…Federation CjaThe Azrieli Foundatio…Jewish Community Foun…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Vancouver FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Simon Chang and Phyllis Levine FoundationQC9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Simon Chang and Phyllis Levine Foundation · Federation Cja · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Vancouver Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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 16 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 charitable organization under support of schools and education.

Source object 726527518:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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