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Beaconsfield, QC · Private foundation

The Highwater Foundation

The foundation was created novemeber 30 2011 it supports registered canadian charities

C$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k32 grants · C$77k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
C$1,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIGHTING BLINDNESS CANADAC$15,000
TERRESA DELLAR FOUNDATIONC$7,500
MCGILLC$6,500
THE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$5,500
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITYC$5,000
WEREDALE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
PANCREATIC CANCER CANADAC$5,000
THE MGH FOUNDATIONC$4,000
CEDARS CANCER FOUNDATIONC$4,000
MONTREAL ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAFC$3,520
ST MARY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$3,500
THE JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$3,000
QUEBEC VETERANSC$2,500
TRAFALGAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLSC$2,000
GOLF CANADAC$2,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$663k · 38 repeat orgsC$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
18

Total granted

C$663k
C$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+36%

Still filing today

95%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • FB
    FIGHTIN BLINDNESS CANADA
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$96k · revenue +12%
  • MO
    MONTREAL ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$82k · revenue +114%
  • WI
    West Island Paliatative Care
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$44k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • TN
    The Native Friendship Center
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k
  • E
    EPRF-CRC
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue -85%
  • BC
    Brome county Historical Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +81%

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 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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
Fondation de l'hôpital Jean-Talon

Contribuer à l'amélioration de la qualité des soins et des services offerts à la clientèle et à la promotion de la santé dans la communauté en soutenant financièrement le développement de l'hôpital jean-talon et du ciusss du…

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9
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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10
Fondation pour la Recherche en Chirurgie Thoracique de Montréal

Le but de la fondation thoracique est le développement d'un centre d'excellence en chirurgie thoracique dans les domaines de la transplantation pulmonaire des maladies osophagiennes et de l'oncologie thoracique en collaboration avec des…

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11
Fondation Du Centre Hospitalier De L'universite De Montreal

La foundation du chum a pour objectifs d'établir d'organiser de maintenir d'administrer et de développer des fonds pour promouvoir l'amélioration des soins l'excellence de l'enseignement et l'avancement de la recherche en général au centre…

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12
Fondation Héma-Québec/Héma-Québec Foundation

La fondation héma-québec a pour mission de soutenir financièrement la conception et le développement des projets novatuers destinés à maintenir héma-québec à la fine pointe des connaissances et des services liés à son expertise et à ses…

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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 The Allegra Foundation-Fondation Allegra. 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

53 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. 53 of the 57 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
44/53
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 budgetFIGHTIN BLINDNESS CANADA — C$96,286 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMONTREAL ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — C$82,370 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetWest Island Paliatative Care — C$44,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMcGill University Health Centre — C$41,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Montreal Children's Hospital — C$38,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MGH FOUNDATION — C$38,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL — C$33,750 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetConcordia university — C$28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRAFALGAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — C$27,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetMCGILL — C$26,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEREDALE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$16,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER CANADA — C$12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCEDARS CANCER FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTYNDALE ST GEORGES — C$10,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSANTROPOL ROULANT — C$9,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DEPOT COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTAUR — C$8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDANS LA RUE — C$7,950 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWEST ISLAND COMMUNITY SHARES — C$7,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetQUEBEC VETERANS — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAUBERGE MADELIENE — C$6,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNOVA MONTREAL — C$6,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetQUEBEC VETERANS — C$5,250 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetEPRF-CRC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBrome county Historical Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHABILITAS — C$4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetATWATER LIBRARY — C$4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBMP FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWELCOME HALL MISSION — C$4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE SENIOR CITZENS CENTRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMULTICAF — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's and Colitis Foundation — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDefi Corporative Canderel — C$1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAC BROME THEATRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOCKEY FOR THE HOMELESS — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNative Women's Shelter — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTREAL CHEST INSTITUTE — C$750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTERRY FOX — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION CENTER — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS SIMCOE — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDR H BLISS CANCER FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALEGRA FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREFUGE SHELTER — 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.

  • Who funds FIGHTIN BLINDNESS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds MONTREAL ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds West Island Paliatative Care ↗
  • Who funds McGill University Health Centre ↗
  • Who funds The Montreal Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds THE MGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Concordia university ↗
  • Who funds TRAFALGAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds MCGILL ↗
  • Who funds WEREDALE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TYNDALE ST GEORGES ↗
  • Who funds SANTROPOL ROULANT ↗
  • Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DEPOT COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTAUR ↗
  • Who funds DANS LA RUE ↗
  • Who funds WEST ISLAND COMMUNITY SHARES ↗
  • Who funds QUEBEC VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds AUBERGE MADELIENE ↗
  • Who funds NOVA MONTREAL ↗
  • Who funds QUEBEC VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds EPRF-CRC ↗
  • Who funds Brome county Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds HABILITAS ↗
  • Who funds ATWATER LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds BMP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WELCOME HALL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE SENIOR CITZENS CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds MULTICAF ↗
  • Who funds THE CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds Crohn's and Colitis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Defi Corporative Canderel ↗

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.

Fondation de la famil…Jewish Community Foun…R. Howard Webster Fou…La Fondation du Grand…The George Hogg Famil…The Peacock family fo…The Tenaquip Foundati…The Hay Foundation/La…Morris and Rosalind G…Hylcan Foundation / L…La Fondation Rossy th…Hewitt Foundation
Fondation de la famille ZellerQC22.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation de la famille Zeller · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · The George Hogg Family Foundation · The Peacock family foundation · The Tenaquip Foundation / la Fondation Tenaquip · The Hay Foundation/La Fondation Hay · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · Hylcan Foundation / La Fondation Hylcan · La Fondation Rossy the Rossy Foundation · Hewitt 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 57 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 843678301:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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