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Thornbury, ON · Private foundation

The Dickson Family Foundation

We make gifts to qualified donees in the following areas: -health care including medical research and health care services -social welfare organizations -promotion of the arts -educational -environmental

C$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$15,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HOSPICE GEORGIAN TRIANGLE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
AMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITYC$15,000
BEAVER VALLEY OUTREACHC$10,000
MOOSE CREE FIRST NATIONC$10,000
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$272k · 11 repeat orgsC$9k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +132% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

C$272k
C$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+132%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • CG
    COLLINGWOOD GENERAL AND MARINE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$62k · revenue +132%
  • TH
    THE HOSPICE GEORGIAN TRIANGLE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$60k · revenue +372%
  • BV
    BEAVER VALLEY OUTREACH
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$36k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • HH
    HOPE HAVEN
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +8%
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue -22%
  • LD
    Live Differentgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue +31%

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
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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3
The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital

The foundation's mission is to transform healthcare through giving. we achieve this through a range of fundraising programs carried out by our professional team and volunteers. ongoing programs include annual monthly and online giving;…

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4
Care Camps of Canada

Mission: To give joy hope and healing power of the outdoors to children with cancer and their families at a specialized oncology camp. Vision: With your help Care Camps will provide hope and healing to every child and family member…

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5
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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6
Variety - the Children's Charity (Ontario)

Variety-The Children's Charity (Ontario) aims to break down barriers to accessibility for education sport fitness and improve the quality of life for individuals with a disability in Ontario. Areas of focus include specialized programs…

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7
Campfire Circle Autour du Feu

Since 1983 Campfire Circle has brought healing through happiness to kids with cancer or serious illness and their families. Through our in-hospital community and overnight camp programs we create opportunities for children to build…

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8
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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9
Wellspring Niagara Cancer Support Foundation

The foundation provides support programs and services for people and their families living with cancer. the foundation provides opportunities for the development of self-help skills leading to an enhanced quality of life. the foundation…

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10
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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11
Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation/Fondation Du Cancer De La Region D'ottawa

The ottawa regional cancer foundation is a supportive cancer care champion. we harness the power of our community to deliver life changing results for those affected by cancer. we offer a community cancer hub a single portal for local…

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12
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Haven Therapeutic Riding Centre Inc. and the most unlike its peers is The Bruce Trail Conservancy. 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLLINGWOOD GENERAL AND MARINE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$61,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOSPICE GEORGIAN TRIANGLE FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBEAVER VALLEY OUTREACH — C$36,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMOOSE CREE FIRST NATION — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITY — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW CIRCLES COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$20,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBRUCE TAIL CONSERVANCY — C$11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetElephant Thoughts Educational Outreach — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEvents for Life — C$10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWELLSPRING CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HAVEN — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLive Different — C$1,500 over 1y, 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Village at Blue M…Canada GivesBenefAction FoundationCollingwood/South Geo…Toronto FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…The Georgian Bay Club…Monks Family Charitab…The Tom and Ruth Krit…The Prasad Family Fou…Aqueduct FoundationFlavelle Family Found…
The Village at Blue Mountain FoundationON11.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Village at Blue Mountain Foundation · Canada Gives · BenefAction Foundation · Collingwood/South Georgian Bay Rotary Charitable Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The Georgian Bay Club Foundation · Monks Family Charitable Trust · The Tom and Ruth Kritsch Family Foundation · The Prasad Family Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Flavelle Family 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 14 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 854004496:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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