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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Durland Learning Foundation

The purpose of the corporation is to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees.

C$525k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$345k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$30k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$150k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$345k
C$50,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Saint Mary's UniversityC$345,000
True Patriot Love FoundationC$100,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TORONTOC$50,000
Mothers Matter CentreC$20,000
Catapult Leadership SocietyC$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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 3 repeat orgsC$363k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+111%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$170k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SM
    Saint Mary's University
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$845k · revenue +9%
  • DU
    Dalhousie University
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$357k · revenue +16%
  • CL
    Catapult Leadership Society
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$55k · revenue -4%

Funded once

  • DM
    DALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$168k · revenue -93%
  • DI
    DECHINTA INITIATIVESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +111%

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
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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2
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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3
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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4
St Mary's University

St. Mary’s University is an independent Catholic University that provides innovative teaching and research and offers accredited degrees in Liberal Arts Sciences and Education. Located on a historic site in Calgary Alberta StMU inspires…

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5
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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6
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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7
Law Foundation of Nova Scotia Scholarship Fund

Education - specifically awarding scholarships for the dalhousie university law school

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8
Universite De Moncton

Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche

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9
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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10
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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11
University of British Columbia

Post Secondary Education & Research

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12
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catapult Leadership Society and the most unlike its peers is Saint Mary's University. 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

8 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
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 budgetSaint Mary's University — C$845,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDalhousie University — C$357,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$168,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTrue Patriot Love Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCatapult Leadership Society — C$55,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TORONTO — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDECHINTA INITIATIVES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMothers Matter Centre — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Rbc Foundation/Rbc FondationON7.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 8 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 796566545:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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