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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

The Colin and Winnifred Molson Foundation / La Fondation Colin et Winnifred Molson

To provide gifts grants and donations to registed charities involved in acquiring and/or preserving heritage properties and to support other charitable purposes by making gifts grants and donations to charities registered under the income tax act of canada or to other qualified donees within the meaning of the income tax act.

C$717k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$638k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$25k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$638k
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CANADADIAN HERITAGE OF QUEBECC$637,937
REDFORD GARDENSC$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$25,000
SIT WITH ME RESCUEC$4,000
OTTAWA VALLEY WILD BIRD CARE CENTREC$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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.7M · 4 repeat orgsC$69k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +124% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

C$2.7M
C$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+124%
-2%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$29k 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

  • TC
    THE CANADADIAN HERITAGE OF QUEBEC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.5M · revenue +15% · 56% of their budget
  • TP
    TADOUSSAC PROTESTANT CHAPEL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$105k · revenue +22% · 39% of their budget
  • RG
    REDFORD GARDENS
    2× · 2019–2024 · C$51k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • SG
    ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH METIS-SUR-MER
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue -39% · 59% of their budget
  • CO
    Cathedral of the Holy Trinitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +93%
  • LF
    LA FABRIQUE DE LA PAROISSE DE SAINT-FRANÇOISE-D'ASSISE
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue -2%

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
Fondation de la Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal

Préservation et mise en valeur du patrimoine réligieux artistique et architectural de la basilique notre-dame de montréal

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2
Site Historique Du Banc-De-Paspebiac Inc.

Préservation et diffusion du patrimoine culturel - conservation des bâtiments

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3
La Fabrique De La Paroisse De Sainte-Anne-Des-Monts

Assurer le culte catholique romain sur le territoire déterminé par l'évêque de gaspé

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4
Fondation Heritage De La Cathedrale D'amos

Conservation du patrimoine

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5
La fabrique de la paroisse de Sainte-Agathe
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6
Conservation des Vallons de la Serpentine

Vise la protection le rétablissement et la conservation à perpétuité des milieux naturels des vallons de la serpentine.

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7
Couvent Mont-Saint-Patrice

Benefice a la communaute via la preservation des sites pittoresques et historiques

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8
Parc Nature de Pointe-aux-Outardes

Oeuvre dans la préservation et la mise en valeur d'un parc comprenant huit écosytèmes.

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9
Société du patrimoine religieux du diocèse de Saint-Hyacinthe

Proteger inventorier et diffuser par des expositions des objets des biens des artefacts se rattachant au patrimoine religieux architectural et oral des communautes religieuses et des eglises.

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10
Fondation Sauvegarde ÉGlise Historique De Saint-Eustache

Assurer la dérennité de l'église comme trésor architectural historique et culturel. assurer la restauration de bâtiment et la mise en valeur du site

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11
Fiducie de conservation du patrimoine naturel de Rigaud

Acquisition de terrain à haute valeur écologique pour fin de conservation à perpétuité

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12
Comité de Sauvegarde de la Cathédrale de Rimouski

Sauvegarde cathédrale à rimouski

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Canadian Heritage of Quebec and the most unlike its peers is Sit With Me Rescue. 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

9 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
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 budgetTHE CANADADIAN HERITAGE OF QUEBEC — C$2,526,937 over 8y, 56% of budgetTADOUSSAC PROTESTANT CHAPEL ASSOCIATION — C$105,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetREDFORD GARDENS — C$50,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetST. GEORGE'S CHURCH METIS-SUR-MER — C$30,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCathedral of the Holy Trinity — C$5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLA FABRIQUE DE LA PAROISSE DE SAINT-FRANÇOISE-D'ASSISE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOTTAWA VALLEY WILD BIRD CARE CENTRE — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Canadahelps Canadon
Canadahelps CanadonON2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 9 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 887557882:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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