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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Douglas Family Foundation

The charity made cash donations to other registered charities of various types

C$694k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$17k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$163k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$264k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$250k
C$12,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERYC$250,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$140,357
LAKE OF THE WOODS DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$123,850
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTOC$35,000
KENORA & LAKE OF THE WOODS REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$24,090
CENTRAL CANADIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION ASSOCIATIONC$21,000
PARKINSON CANADA INC.C$20,000
COUNCIL FOR BUSINESS & ARTS IN CANADAC$15,000
YMCA-YWCA OF WINNIPEG INC.C$13,200
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBAC$12,500
THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG FOUNDATION INCC$12,000
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL EDUCATIONC$10,000
ROSEDALE UNITED CHURCHC$6,500
CANADA'S NATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETYC$5,000
THE FRASER INSTITUTEC$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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.9M · 22 repeat orgsC$246k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
26

Total granted

C$1.9M
C$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$40k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TW
    THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$302k · revenue +35%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$284k · revenue +18%
  • LO
    LAKE OF THE WOODS DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$166k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG
    one grant, 2021 · C$39k · revenue +23%
  • BL
    BIG LIFE FOUNDATION CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k · revenue +796%
  • TW
    THE WORLD REMEMBERS
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k · revenue -61% · 41% of their budget

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
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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2
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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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
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation-Fondation Du Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Canada

The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…

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5
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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6
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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7
The Manitoba Museum Foundation Incorporated/Fondation Du Musee Du Manitoba Incorporee

The manitoba museum foundation incorporated supports the long term objectives of the manitoba museum. it funds research activities special projects collections acquisitions and exhibit renewals at the manitoba museum.

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8
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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9
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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10
The Gairdner Foundation

The purpose of The Gairdner Foundation is to encourage study and research into medical/health sciences. We provide awards to the world's best and brightest biomedical researchers in recognition of their outstanding discoveries and…

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11
Library and Archives Canada Foundation

Raise profile of library archives canada (lac) and promote public support such as through the lac scholar awards program. in addition they raise funds to support lac projects.

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12
Ocad University Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcmichael Canadian Art Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Crescent School. 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

52 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. 52 of the 54 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
35/52
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 budgetLAKE OF THE WOODS MUSEUM (THE DOUGLAS FAMILY ARTS CENTRE) — C$323,951 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY — C$302,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$283,686 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE OF THE WOODS DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$165,602 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO — C$162,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$157,857 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENORA & LAKE OF THE WOODS REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$144,854 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG FOUNDATION INC — C$46,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL CANADIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION ASSOCIATION — C$42,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA INC. — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN LEACOCK FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — C$39,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG — C$38,816 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK/LE PREMIER LIVRE — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetROSEDALE UNITED CHURCH — C$23,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WORLD REMEMBERS — C$20,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSTRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — C$16,666 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR BUSINESS & ARTS IN CANADA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA-YWCA OF WINNIPEG INC. — C$13,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$11,277 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERITAS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA PARISH OF ST. ALBAN'S CATHEDR — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE SASHBEAR FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCANADA'S NATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETY — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS CANADA SP CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSINIBOINE PARK CONSERVANCY INC. — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MANITOBA MUSEUM — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLORAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET — C$3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRASER INSTITUTE — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC. — C$2,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROWS'S THEATRE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HAVERGAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION WALK CANADA INC. — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANADA GIVES — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSLEXIA CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHOEBOX PROJECT FOR SHELTERS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARISTOTLE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$500 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.

Giftpact Foundation I…The Asper FoundationJackman FoundationAqueduct FoundationWcpd FoundationThe Gail Asper Family…Toronto FoundationThe Pollard Family Fo…The Jewish Foundation…The Winnipeg Foundati…Clench House Foundati…Price Family Foundati…
Giftpact Foundation Inc.MB15.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Giftpact Foundation Inc. · The Asper Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · The Gail Asper Family Foundation Inc · Toronto Foundation · The Pollard Family Foundation Inc. · The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba · The Winnipeg Foundation · Clench House Foundation · Price Family Foundation Inc.

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 54 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 836328989:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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