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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

The Birks Family Foundation / La fondation de la famille Birks

Organization either primarily focused on quebec or those whose work is broadly national in nature.

C$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k42 grants · C$179k
  • C$10k–50k50 grants · C$960k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$507k
C$10,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIANT STEPS FOUNDATIONC$70,000
MTL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION CIP PROGRAMC$70,000
CENTRAIDEC$65,000
MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$52,000
UNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE FONDATION DE L'C$50,000
DOUGLAS HOSPITALC$50,000
MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
QUEBEC PHILANTHROPEC$50,000
PEARSON COLLEGEC$50,000
FONDATION SAINT/ URBAINEC$45,000
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITYC$40,000
MONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE & HOSPITAL TACCC$35,000
MAISONNEUVE-ROSEMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$35,000
CEDARS CANCER FOUNDATIONC$30,000
NOTRE HOME FOUNDATIONC$30,000
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.

Your giving at home — 87% of grant dollars (C$8.6M). The 13% that went abroad (C$1.3M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 13% of all-years giving (C$1.3M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$8.5M · 135 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

135 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135
142

Total granted

C$8.5M
C$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+13%

Still filing today

87%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$189k 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

  • MU
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$608k · revenue +41%
  • MG
    Montreal General Hospital Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$540k · revenue +28%
  • C
    CENTRAIDE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$410k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CO
    Centraide of Greater Montreal
    one grant, 2018 · C$55k
  • MN
    Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
    one grant, 2018 · C$43k
  • CU
    Concordia University
    one grant, 2018 · C$41k

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.

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
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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4
La Fondation de l'Université Laval
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5
Fondation du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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6
Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal

Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal

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7
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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8
Chu de Québec - Université Laval

Affilié à l'université laval le chu de québec - université laval dispense des soins et des services de santé généraux spécialisés et surspécialisés en y intégrant l'enseignement la recherche clinique et fondamentale et l'évaluation des…

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9
Fondation Université du Québec

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

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10
L'Institut international de Montréal pour l'environnement / the Montreal international institute for the environment
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11
Fondation De L'institut Universitaire En SantÉ Mentale De MontrÉAl
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12
La Fondation du Grand Montréal - the Foundation of Greater Montreal

Programmes de subventions - appui à des initiatives qui produisent un impact sur le mieux-être des individus et des communautés dans les secteurs des arts et de la culture de l'éducation du développement social de l'environnement des…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation Québec Philanthrope and the most unlike its peers is Chalmers-Wesley United Church/Eglise Unie Chalmers-Wesley. 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

156 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. 156 of the 287 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)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
153/156
Grantees still filing
117/156
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 budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES — C$607,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMontreal General Hospital Foundation — C$540,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAIDE — C$410,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMUHCFoundation — C$319,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetConcordia University — C$275,031 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGIANT STEPS FOUNDATION — C$214,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMontreal Children's Hospital Foundation — C$195,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDOUGLAS HOSPITAL — C$180,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMontrealHeartInstitute — C$180,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL — C$175,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSickKidsFoundation — C$175,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetUniversitéLaval — C$175,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS CANCER INSTITUTE — C$165,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironment Funders Canada — C$160,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLester B. Pearson College of the Pacific — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFONDATION SAINT/ URBAINE — C$144,300 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRESCHOOL OF CANADA — C$130,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDunhamHouse — C$128,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetOldBreweryMission — C$125,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Red Cross Society - Quebec Division — C$115,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Montreal — C$114,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetPeri-OperativeProgram — C$111,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetMaisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Foundation — C$105,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUniversite de Sherbrooke Fondation de l' — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTrinityCollegeSchool — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSalvation Army — C$98,500 over 7y, 88% of budgetChez Doris Women's Shelter Foundation — C$93,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMONTREAL ORAL SCHOOL OF THE DEAF — C$90,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLAKESHORE GENERAL HOSPITAL BUILDING FUND — C$84,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$80,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetYMCA de Québec — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetInstitut Economique de Montréal — C$74,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWindmill Microlending — C$70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSun Youth Organization Inc. — C$68,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNOVA MONTREAL (MONTREAL VON) — C$67,500 over 6y, 36% of budgetCentaurFoundationforthePerformingArts — C$60,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNotre Home Foundation — C$60,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetLe Phare Enfants et familles — C$57,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLES AMIES DE LA MONTAGNE — C$55,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetSANTROPOL ROULANT — C$53,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetRepercussion Theatre — C$53,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetQUEBEC PHILANTHROPE — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRoyalCanadianGeographicalSociety — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDesta Black Youth Network — C$50,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetST. RAPHAEL PALLIATIVE CARE RESIDENCE — C$50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWEST ISLAND PALLIATIVE CARE RESIDENCE — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMontreal Holocaust Museum — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 MCGILL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds Montreal General Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAIDE ↗
  • Who funds MUHCFoundation ↗
  • Who funds Concordia University ↗
  • Who funds GIANT STEPS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DOUGLAS HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds MontrealHeartInstitute ↗
  • Who funds SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SickKidsFoundation ↗
  • Who funds UniversitéLaval ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Environment Funders Canada ↗
  • Who funds Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific ↗
  • Who funds FONDATION SAINT/ URBAINE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL THEATRESCHOOL OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds DunhamHouse ↗
  • Who funds OldBreweryMission ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Red Cross Society - Quebec Division ↗
  • Who funds YWCA of Montreal ↗
  • Who funds Peri-OperativeProgram ↗
  • Who funds Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Universite de Sherbrooke Fondation de l' ↗
  • Who funds TrinityCollegeSchool ↗
  • Who funds Salvation Army ↗
  • Who funds Chez Doris Women's Shelter Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MONTREAL ORAL SCHOOL OF THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE GENERAL HOSPITAL BUILDING FUND ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds YMCA de Québec ↗
  • Who funds Institut Economique de Montréal ↗
  • Who funds Windmill Microlending ↗
  • Who funds Sun Youth Organization Inc. ↗
  • Who funds NOVA MONTREAL (MONTREAL VON) ↗
  • Who funds CentaurFoundationforthePerformingArts ↗
  • Who funds Notre Home 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.

Fondation de la famil…The Hay Foundation/La…Hylcan Foundation / L…R. Howard Webster Fou…La Fondation Rossy th…The Molson Foundation…Hewitt FoundationLa Fondation du Grand…Jewish Community Foun…The Macdonald Stewart…The Jarislowsky Found…The J W McConnell Fam…
Fondation de la famille ZellerQC39.2× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation de la famille Zeller · The Hay Foundation/La Fondation Hay · Hylcan Foundation / La Fondation Hylcan · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · La Fondation Rossy the Rossy Foundation · The Molson Foundation/Fondation Molson · Hewitt Foundation · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Macdonald Stewart Foundation - la Fondation Macdonald Stewart · The Jarislowsky Foundation/La Fondation Jarislowsky · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell

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 287 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 2024-11-30, 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 119216034:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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