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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

The Canadian Association of Science Centres L'Association Canadienne Des Centre de Sciences

The canadian association of science centres builds capacity for its members to inspire a creative and prosperous canada through science and technology engagement.

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$116k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$41k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$287k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$693k
C$37,462
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$115,755
SCIENCE EASTC$111,150
SASKATCHEWAN SCIENCE CENTRE INCC$96,066
CENTRE D'INTERPRETATION DE L'EAUC$69,300
THE EXPLORATION PLACE (AP)C$69,075
A.S.T.C. SCIENCE WORLD SOCIETYC$60,691
SCIENCE NORTHC$58,680
FRASER RIVER DISCOVERY CENTREC$56,628
THE MUSEUMC$55,557
Individual grant recipientC$49,659
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE-EDMONTON (EDMONTON SPACE & SCIENCEC$45,290
MEEWASIN VALLEY AUTHORITY.C$45,000
MANITOBA MUSEUMC$37,462
INDUS SPACE INC.C$25,875
CANADA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM CORPORATION FOUNDAITONC$20,250
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 12 repeat orgsC$599k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$549k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SS
    SASKATCHEWAN SCIENCE CENTRE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$147k · revenue +50%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$124k · revenue +8%
  • AS
    A.S.T.C. SCIENCE WORLD SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$70k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • VS
    VERNON SCIENCE & DISCOVERY SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$18k · revenue +22%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN
    one grant, 2023 · C$16k · revenue +17%
  • VO
    VISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNINGgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$16k · revenue +25%

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.

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The Discovery Centre

Operates a hands-on science centre consisting of four floors of exhibits. Delivers science workshops to school and non-school groups of children and conducts summer science camps.

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2
Musee De La Nature Et Des Sciences Inc.

Expositions permanentes et temporaires activités éducatives et culturelles conférences

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3
Scientists in School

The objective of the organization is to inspire elementary students and teachers to enjoy science and technology through fun and exciting presentations and hands-on activities.

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4
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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5
Space Place Planetarium Canada (Toronto)

Educational programs about space and space related earth sciences via our website and you tube channel.

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6
Alberta Science Network: an Alberta Society

1) scientists & engineers-in-the-classroom 2) teacher science workshops 3) chemistry all around you

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7
H.R. Macmillan Space Centre Society

Throughout the year we delivered over 5 500 live science shows and programs engaging more than 89 000 K–12 students and 58 000 general visitors onsite while reaching over 2 000 students through our Portable Planetarium Program which…

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8
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Edmonton Centre

Rasc edmonton centre provides astronomy related free educational programs public star parties support for educational activities science fairs funding for scholarships and astronomy outreach activities

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9
South Fraser Regional Science Fair (Sfrsf)
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10
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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11
Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre Inc.

The collection preservation study exhibition and interpretation of palaeontological specimens from southern manitoba

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12
The Prince Albert Science Centre Inc.

To inspire minds for a bright future through science education discovery and life-long learning. at present we operate as an event-based facility. connect communities to promote and nurture steam – science technology engineering arts and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saskatchewan Science Centre Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Dalhousie University. 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

24 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. 24 of the 30 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)
24/24
Grantees still filing
7/24
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 budgetCENTRE D'INTERPRETATION DE L'EAU — C$186,300 over 2y, 19% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN SCIENCE CENTRE INC — C$147,264 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSCIENCE NORTH — C$144,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRASER RIVER DISCOVERY CENTRE — C$124,867 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$124,028 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$115,755 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE EAST — C$111,150 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetEDMONTON SPACE & SCIENCE FOUNDATION — C$108,580 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMANITOBA MUSEUM — C$105,862 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetA.S.T.C. SCIENCE WORLD SOCIETY — C$69,792 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EXPLORATION PLACE (AP) — C$69,075 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE MUSEUM — C$55,557 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMEEWASIN VALLEY AUTHORITY. — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMANITOBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC. — C$27,220 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSCIENCE TIMMINS INC. — C$20,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCANADA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM CORPORATION FOUNDAITON — C$20,250 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetVERNON SCIENCE & DISCOVERY SOCIETY — C$17,550 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMANUELS RIVER NATURAL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC. — C$17,001 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISIONS OF SCIENCE NETWORK FOR LEARNING — C$16,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAULT STE. MARIE INSECTARIUM — C$16,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetLONDON REGIONAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM — C$13,243 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTELUS SPARK — C$12,285 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER INSTITUTE — C$800 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.

Td Friends of the Env…S M Blair Family Foun…TELUS Friendly Future…Taking It Global Yout…The Kpmg Foundation/L…The Trottier Family F…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…The McLean FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Vancouver FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…BenefAction Foundation
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON14.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · S M Blair Family Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Taking It Global Youth Association · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The McLean Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction 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.

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 30 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under community resource.

Source object 875439861:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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