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Vars, ON · Charitable organization

The Canadian Aviation Historical Society

Publishes quarterly journals and monthly chapter newsletters about canadian aviation history.

C$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$750
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$435k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTREAL AVIATION MUSEUMC$1,000
SASKATCHEWAN AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC. O/A SASKATCHEWC$750
ROYAL AVIATION MUSEUM OF WESTERN CANADAC$500
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12k · 6 repeat orgsC$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

C$12k
C$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%
0%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$500 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

  • MA
    MONTREAL AVIATION MUSEUM
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$5k · revenue +429%
  • CC
    CENTENNIAL COLLEGE
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$3k · revenue +40%
  • GC
    GEORGIAN COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$2k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • BO
    BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +47% · 67% of their budget
  • CA
    CANADAS AVIATION HALL OF FAME
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue -4%
  • TG
    THE GREATER SAINT JOHN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$500 · revenue +147%

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
British Columbia Aviation Museum

Collect restore display and demonstrate artifacts to aviation with particular emphasis on the development of aviation in canada.

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2
Western Canada Aviation Museum Foundation
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3
The Canadian Air Land Sea Museum
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4
Canadian Museum of Flight Association

Display of vintage aircraft and historical memorabilia; restoration of vintage aircraft; flight operations; youth education - onsite and through offsite outreach

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5
Fondation aérovision Québec

Promouvoir la mise en place d'un musée de l'aviation au québec

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6
National Aviation Museum Society

Raising funds to support projects undertaken by the canadian aviation and space museum.

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7
Vintage Wings of Canada/Les Ailes D'epoque Du Canada

Acquire preserve and display historic aircraft: we lease historic aircrafts which we keep airworthy. we fly the aircrafts to air shows for public display and to ceremonies marking historical anniversaries. we have tours and open houses for…

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8
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Inc.

Operated canada's only air museum dedicated solely to those who trained and fought for the british commonwealth during the 1939-1945 war.

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9
Royal Canadian Air Force Association Trust

To support assist and promote the education of all canadians in matters relating to aviation history.

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10
Canadian Air & Space Museum Inc.

The current collection continues to be preserved. through our volunteers we have continued to maintain the historical collection volunteer work done via scheduled tours repainting & restoring of artifacts. open houses hosted to showcase…

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11
Northern Aviation Heritage Foundation
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12
Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum

Acquire and display aviation related material -Host school and air cadet tours -Ongoing public events. Family fun day/ wings & wheels -Interactive flight simulator display -Gift shop -Hosting specialty TV shows on militaria

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame and the most unlike its peers is The Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology. 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

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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMONTREAL AVIATION MUSEUM — C$5,105 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL FUND — C$3,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetCENTENNIAL COLLEGE — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIAN COLLEGE — C$2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAS AVIATION HALL OF FAME — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC. O/A SASKATCHEW — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM — C$850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER SAINT JOHN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOWEN SOUND MUSEUMS - BILLY BISHOP HOME & MUSEUM — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEE DE L'AEROSPATIALE DU QUEBEC — C$500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetROYAL AVIATION MUSEUM OF WESTERN CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM OF CANADA — C$200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMS TAKE FLIGHT (CANADA) — 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.

BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …Charitable Gift Funds…My Tribute Gift Found…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
BenefAction FoundationON5.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.

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 15 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 public amenities.

Source object 118829589:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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