Mississauga, ON · Private foundation
The Bfmi Sesquicentennial Trust (2017)
The trust is an unincorporated charitable trust commencing operations on january 1 2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k15 grants · C$30k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | C$25,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH LEGACY FOUNDATION | C$2,000 |
| CANADIAN RED CROSS | C$2,000 |
| FOODSHARE | C$2,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE CANADA | C$2,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL STUDIES | C$2,000 |
| FINCA CANADA | C$2,000 |
| THE SCOTT MISSION | C$2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | C$2,000 |
| THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATION | C$2,000 |
| THE FRASER INSTITUTE | C$2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER SOCIETY CANADA | C$2,000 |
| HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION | C$2,000 |
| THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY | C$2,000 |
| PERIMETER INSTITUTE | C$2,000 |
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.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k went to new ones.
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
- TGTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO6× · 2019–2024 · C$90k · revenue +34%
- TSTHE SCOTT MISSION7× · 2018–2024 · C$9k · revenue +167%
- PIPERIMETER INSTITUTE7× · 2018–2024 · C$9k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- MLMAKE-A-WISH LEGACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +189%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…
We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.
1. to advance education by: a) conducting research relating to climate change and publishing the results of such research to the public; and b) producing and publishing educational materials resources and other supports designed to…
Imagine Canada is a national charitable organization whose cause is Canada's charities and nonprofits. Its four Strategic Directions are to: energize the sector's voices; ensure the sector's relevance; influence the sector's environment;…
The canadian foundation for dietetic research (cfdr) was created by dietitians of canada (dc) the professional association for dietitians and incorporated in 1991 as a charitable foundation. our mandate: enhancing the health of canadians…
Diabetes is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases in Canada with more than four million people living with diabetes in this country. It is a complex chronic condition that impacts a person’s health and overall life in profound ways.…
Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…
Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…
Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…
CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…
SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada/La Fondation Canadienne Reves D'enfants and the most unlike its peers is Scott Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 20 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds THE SCOTT MISSION ↗
- Who funds PERIMETER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE FRASER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE CANADA ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY CANADA ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FINCA CANADA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST CANADA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S WISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SANDBOX PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund 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.