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The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation

The charitable work of the organization involves the allocating of funding to approximately 128 charitable organizations throughout canada.

C$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
129
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$88k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 129 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k66 grants · C$228k
  • C$10k–50k58 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$301k
C$7,500
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATIONC$87,500
THE WINNIPEG FOUNDATIONC$63,076
CHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$50,000
FIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY SOCIETYC$50,000
THE VANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETYC$50,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$47,450
RONALD S. ROADBURG FOUNDATIONC$44,780
HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$42,361
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ALBERTAC$42,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$32,500
THE LAWSON FOUNDATIONC$28,780
ST. MICHAEL S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$28,760
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATIONC$28,705
VANCOUVER FOUNDATIONC$28,609
MAKIGIAQTA INUIT TRAINING CORPORATIONC$26,473
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$22M
British Columbia
C$7.3M
Manitoba
C$4.2M
Nunavut
C$3.5M
Alberta
C$2.1M
Quebec
C$1.7M
Saskatchewan
C$135k
Prince Edward Island
C$68k
Northwest Territories
C$34k
Nova Scotia
C$24k
New Brunswick
C$16k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$16k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$39M · 221 repeat orgsC$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

221 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 123 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

221
155

Total granted

C$39M
C$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+28%

Still filing today

97%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$227k 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

  • HC
    Hamilton Community Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4.6M · revenue +68%
  • VF
    Vancouver Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$4.0M · revenue +179%
  • TL
    The Lawson Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$2.9M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • RR
    Rainbow Railroad
    one grant, 2023 · C$1.2M · revenue +3%
  • QU
    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON
    one grant, 2021 · C$35k · revenue +10%
  • BF
    BCU Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · C$35k · revenue -1095%

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.

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Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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2
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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3
The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc

The main purpose of the foundation is to raise and distribute funds for the advancement of knowledge and care in the fields of child health research as well as to provide equipment and fund programs at the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg.…

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4
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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5
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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6
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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7
The Calgary Foundation

The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…

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8
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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9
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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10
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

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.…

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11
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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12
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change the World Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Médecins du Monde. 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

387 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. 387 of the 406 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)
95
Early backer (in before they grew)
382/387
Grantees still filing
277/387
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 budgetHamilton Community Foundation — C$4,620,738 over 8y, 25% of budgetVancouver Foundation — C$4,009,449 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetThe Lawson Foundation — C$2,908,333 over 4y, 18% of budgetSt Micheals Hospital Foundation — C$2,856,970 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetRonald S Roadburg Foundation — C$2,756,159 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPhysicians Services Incorporated Foundation — C$2,302,611 over 7y, 27% of budgetThe Nature Conservancy of Canada — C$1,730,001 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSt Andrews College Foundation — C$1,676,313 over 6y, 16% of budgetEdmonton Community Foundation — C$1,639,158 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetRainbow Railroad — C$1,172,687 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Windsor Foundation — C$1,067,425 over 3y, 15% of budgetKelowna General Hospital Foundation — C$986,744 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation — C$543,096 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$401,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$390,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetThe Vancouver Art Gallery Association — C$262,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFirst United Church Community Ministry Society — C$240,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSouthlake Regional Health Centre Foundation — C$207,860 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Canada — C$207,363 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$182,977 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLoran Scholars Foundation — C$180,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetLakeridge Health Foundation — C$172,026 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$170,150 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION — C$155,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCentre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation — C$153,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Canadian Red Cross Society — C$151,705 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSanctuary Ministries of Toronto — C$135,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetJUSTWORK ECONOMIC INITIATIVE — C$132,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetHolland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation — C$124,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDOIN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$120,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCanada-Ukraine Foundation — C$109,124 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Boyle Street Service Society — C$105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFEED ONTARIO — C$101,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Temiskaming Foundation — C$101,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetLOFT Community Services — C$100,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWindmill Microlending — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BC — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANIK — C$95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY SOCIETY — C$91,600 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Alberta Society — C$86,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMoisson Montreal Inc — C$86,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetART CANADA INSTITUTE — C$85,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetEcotrust Canada — C$82,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA — C$80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$79,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHELP US HELP — C$75,569 over 4y, 1.5% 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.

Diamond FoundationBC19.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Diamond Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Lrj Charitable Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Png Enterprise Foundation · The Giustra Foundation · Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · Lohn 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 406 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 866983356:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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