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Westmount, QC · Private foundation

The David H. Laidley Foundation

The primary purposes of the foundation consist of making donations to eligible recipients within the meaning of the canadian income tax act and to support the advancement of health care palliative care the environment post-secondary education and awareness of the responsibilities and rights of individuals in canadian society

C$179k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$44k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$75k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
C$1,800
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$60,000
SUN YOUTH ORGANIZATIONC$40,000
CENTRAIDEC$25,000
OLD BREWERY MISSIONC$10,000
MONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTEC$6,200
TERESA DELLAR PALLIATIVE CARE RESIDENCE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITALC$5,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$3,000
FONDATION LA TRAVERSÉEC$2,500
LE PHAREC$2,500
CENTRAIDE HAUTES-LAURENTIDESC$2,500
CEDARS CANCER FOUNDATIONC$2,500
SEGAL CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTSC$1,800
HABILITAS FONDATIONC$1,500
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCHC$1,500
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$772k · 27 repeat orgsC$94k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
11

Total granted

C$772k
C$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+52%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • C
    CENTRAIDE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$175k · revenue +59%
  • MU
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$127k · revenue +319%
  • MC
    MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$120k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • DH
    DOUGLAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$47k · revenue +69%
  • AS
    ADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k

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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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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2
Fondation du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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3
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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4
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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5
Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal

Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal

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6
La Fondation De L'hÔPital GÉNÉRal De MontrÉAl the MontrÉAl General Hospital Foundation

Distribute funds to the benefit of the montreal general hospital mcgill university health centre and affiliated entities of mcgill university academic health centre and other organizations of the quebec health network for equipment…

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7
Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De Montreal/Montreal Heart Institute Foundation

La fondation de l'institut de cardiologie de ontréal recueille et administre des fonds pour soutenir la recherche la prévention et l'enseignement prodigués par l'institut de cardiologie de montréal. elle encourage ainsi l'excellence d'une…

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8
Chu de Québec - Université Laval

Affilié à l'université laval le chu de québec - université laval dispense des soins et des services de santé généraux spécialisés et surspécialisés en y intégrant l'enseignement la recherche clinique et fondamentale et l'évaluation des…

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9
L'Institut international de Montréal pour l'environnement / the Montreal international institute for the environment
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10
La Fondation de l'Université Laval
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11
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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12
L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

The charity carries out all forms of medical research. the programs provide physical space as well as financial and personnel services to facilitate the work of researchers.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/the Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Anglican Parish of Christ Church Cathedral. 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

45 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. 45 of the 48 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
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 budgetCENTRAIDE — C$175,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — C$127,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUN YOUTH ORGANIZATION — C$81,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRIDEAU HALL FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDOUGLAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$47,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHEZ DORIS — C$31,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetQUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWest Island Palliative care residence Foundation Inc — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMcGill University — C$13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTE — C$12,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAIDE HAUTES-LAURENTIDES — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOLD BREWERY MISSION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGiant steps Foundation Montreal — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHABILITAS FOUNDATION — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH — C$7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — C$7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLE PHARE — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOn the Tip of the Toes Foundation — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMOSD FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLower Canada College — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN TIRE JUMPSTART CHARITIES — C$3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUDUDA CANADA FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Fraser-Hickson Institute — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTYNDALE ST-GEORGES COMMUNITY CENTER — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS CANCER FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION LA TRAVERSÉE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S MISSION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DEPOT COMMUNITY OOD CEENTRE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEGAL CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFondation du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONTACT EMPLOI INC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIND YOUR PLASTIC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAISON ST. RAPHAEL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE THE WARMTH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY UNLIMITED — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTREAL'S CHILDREN LIBRARY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK WATCH OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST. COLUMBA HOUSE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOISSON MONTREAL — C$1,000 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.

R. Howard Webster Fou…Fondation de la famil…Jewish Community Foun…The Molson Foundation…La Fondation du Grand…The Birks Family Foun…Hylcan Foundation / L…La Fondation Rossy th…The J W McConnell Fam…Hewitt FoundationThe Hay Foundation/La…Conam Charitable Foun…
R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard WebsterQC23.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Fondation de la famille Zeller · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Molson Foundation/Fondation Molson · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · The Birks Family Foundation / La fondation de la famille Birks · Hylcan Foundation / La Fondation Hylcan · La Fondation Rossy the Rossy Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Hewitt Foundation · The Hay Foundation/La Fondation Hay · Conam Charitable 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 48 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 851435032:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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