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Gore Bay, ON · Private foundation

The Douglas A. Smith Family Foundation

The foundation continued to implement intentions to fund projects benefiting the communities of ontario.

C$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$16M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k20 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k18 grants · C$328k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$590k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$17M
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION SOCIETYC$16,100,000
TOWN OF GORE BAYC$1,100,000
WEENGUSHK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALC$100,000
CAMBRIAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTSC$100,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$100,000
BURPEE MILLS FIRE DEPTC$70,000
NEO KIDS SUDBURY FDN AT HEALTH SCIENCES NORTHC$70,000
ESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCYC$50,000
ART GALLERY OF SUDBURYC$50,000
LYON'S MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCHC$50,000
STRAWBERRY POINT CHRISTIAN CAMPC$40,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY NORTHERN ONTARIO CAMPAIGNC$37,500
TOWNSHIP OF COCKBURN ISLAND HERITAGE COMMITTEEC$35,000
JENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITYC$30,000
TURTLE POND WILDLIFE CENTREC$25,000
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.3M · 21 repeat orgsC$17M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

C$9.3M
C$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+76%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$17M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • MH
    MANITOULIN HEALTH CENTRE
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$935k · revenue +39%
  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$400k · revenue +44%
  • LM
    LYONS MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$200k · revenue +32% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVANCY OF ONTARIOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue +76%
  • JA
    JENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY
    one grant, 2022 · C$45k · revenue -32% · 90% of their budget
  • RD
    Rainbow District School Board
    one grant, 2017 · C$30k

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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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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2
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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3
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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4
Autism Speaks Canada

Autism Speaks Canada is dedicated to promoting solutions across the spectrum and throughout the lifespan for the needs of individuals with autism and their families by supporting and working with community partners enhancing resources and…

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5
Fighting Blindness Canada

Fighting Blindness Canada leads the fight against blindness by advancing research in to vision loss and blindness education and public awareness. To advance vision research we fund qualified donees researchers and clinicians to investigate…

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6
Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada

Diabetes is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases in Canada with more than four million people living with diabetes in this country. It is a complex chronic condition that impacts a person’s health and overall life in profound ways.…

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7
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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8
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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9
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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10
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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11
Canadian Myeloma Research Group

In Canada researchers figure prominently in the development of innovative and very promising clinical trials. The Canadian Myeloma Research Group (CMRG) is the first and only national organization bringing together Canada's leading cancer…

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12
Canadian Disability Foundation

The Canadian Disability Foundation ('CDF') is Canada’s national disability organization. Established to provide philanthropic support services and innovative social solutions CDF helps the more than 8 million disabled Canadians to be…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Societe De L'arthrite Du Canada and the most unlike its peers is All Saints Church. 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

49 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. 49 of the 60 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
13/49
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 budgetMANITOULIN HEALTH CENTRE — C$935,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLYONS MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH — C$200,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetRainbow District School Board — C$160,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRAWBERRY POINT CHRISTIAN CAMP — C$100,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetWEENGUSHK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — C$100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetART GALLERY OF SUDBURY — C$100,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetNEO KIDS SUDBURY FDN AT HEALTH SCIENCES NORTH — C$70,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCNIB GUIDE DOG PROGRAM — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANITOULIN STREAMS — C$50,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCY — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetARCHITECTURAL CONSERVANCY OF ONTARIO — C$50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetST. BERNARDS CATHOLIC CHURCH — C$45,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetJENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY — C$45,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB GREATER TORONTO — C$40,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$40,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetSUDBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — C$40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY NORTHERN ONTARIO CAMPAIGN — C$37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN'S CHARITY — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTrinity United Church — C$25,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetTURTLE POND WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUDBURY WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNICKEL DISTRICT CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNORTHERN ONTARIO FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKIVI PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetBOOTS ON THE GROUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMANITOULIN SWIM SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO CEREBRAL PALSY SPORTS ASSOCIATION — C$1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WARR AMPS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYCREST FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE ORGANIZATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO SPCA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS ONTARIO — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S AND COLITIS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION — C$120 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.

Sudbury Community Fou…The Lougheed Foundati…John Carl Macisaac Fo…The Masonic Foundatio…Goodlife Kids Foundat…The Sisters of St Jos…Hydro One Employees' …J.P. Bickell Foundati…Canadian National Chr…My Tribute Gift Found…Td Friends of the Env…Canada Gives
Sudbury Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire de SudburyON14.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sudbury Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire de Sudbury · The Lougheed Foundation · John Carl Macisaac Foundation · The Masonic Foundation of Ontario · Goodlife Kids Foundation · The Sisters of St Joseph of Sault Ste Marie · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Canadian National Christian Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Canada Gives

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 60 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 813883485:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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