Stittsville, ON · Private foundation
The Borealis Foundation
Environmental / Global Warming Medical Research
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k4 grants · C$14k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$350k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gift Funds Canada | C$17,447,704 |
| The Ottawa Hospital Foundation | C$200,000 |
| Carleton University | C$150,000 |
| Environment Funders Canada | C$5,000 |
| Nature Conservancy | C$5,000 |
| Stittsville Food Bank | C$2,000 |
| Ottawa Food Bank | 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$17M 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
- CUCARLETON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue +18%
- OHOttawa Hospital Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +94%
- EFEnvironment Funders Canada4× · 2021–2024 · C$20k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- SCSFU- Clean Energy Canadagraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +43%
- POPAL Ottawaone grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue -31%
- CECLEAN ENERGY FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue +176%
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.
The foundation pools charitable gifts in endowment or other funds from which amounts are made available for charitable distribution to meet a wide range of community needs and interests - the arts and other cultural activities scholarship…
The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…
Waterloo region community foundation (wrcf) collaborates with partners to ensure our communities are equitable connected and sustainable; and people are thriving. we strengthen local organizations spaces and experiences to increase…
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.…
The ottawa hospital research institute is an independent health research facility closely affiliated with the ottawa hospital and the university of ottawa committed to excellence in the creation of scientific knowledge that contributes to…
The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.
Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…
The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…
The foundation's purpose is to support evidence-informed integrative and preventative cancer care research and education. their approach emphasizes quality of life active prevention of the disease and care of the spirit.
We operate endowed and non-endowed programs to benefit cardiac care research education and equipment purchases at the university of ottawa heart institute (uohi) and the ottawa heart institute research corporation (ohirc). we contribute to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement and the most unlike its peers is Stittsville Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 Gift Funds Canada ↗
- Who funds CARLETON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ottawa Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SFU- Clean Energy Canada ↗
- Who funds PAL Ottawa ↗
- Who funds Environment Funders Canada ↗
- Who funds SALUS OTTAWA ↗
- Who funds Nature Conservancy of Canada ↗
- Who funds LIVE WORK PLAY ↗
- Who funds CLEAN ENERGY FUND ↗
- Who funds Ottawa Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Stiitsville Foodbank ↗
- Who funds WABANO CENTER FOR ABORIGINAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds YMCA OTTAWA ↗
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 · Wcpd Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · BenefAction Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · My Tribute Gift 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.