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London, ON · Public foundation

The Jesse Davidson Foundation

Making grants to organizations for scientists carrying on research in gene and cell thereapy.

C$880k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$167k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$865k
C$110,684
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONC$166,666
UNIVERSITE LAVALC$162,231
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATIONC$149,894
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$110,684
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (ASSOCIATED WITH HARVARD UNIVERSIC$107,559
OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTEC$99,894
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIOC$68,570
NATIONAL CENTER OF NEUROLOGY PSYCHC$14,950
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 65% of grant dollars (C$5.2M). The 35% that went abroad (C$2.8M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 35% of all-years giving (C$2.8M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$2.2M · 16 grants
JPC$15k · 1 grant

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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$7.1M · 17 repeat orgsC$981k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

C$7.1M
C$680k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+48%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$302k 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

  • UL
    UNIVERSITE LAVAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +48%
  • TG
    THE GOVERNING COUNIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$697k · revenue +43%
  • HF
    Hospital for Sick Children
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$500k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • LR
    LAWSON RESEARCH INSTITUTE/INDTITUT DE RECHERCHES LAWSON
    one grant, 2021 · C$150k · revenue +17%
  • BC
    BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL(ASSOCIATD WITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$108k
  • CD
    CHU de Quebecgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +48%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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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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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2
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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3
The Ottawa Hospital/L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital is a three-campus hospital model with two full service campuses (civic and general). the objective of the hospital is to provide quality patient care through education and research and is dedicated to improving the…

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4
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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5
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
Universite Du Quebec

Enseignement et recherche universitaire

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10
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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11
UniversitÉ Du QuÉBec À MontrÉAl

La mission de l'université consiste à former des étudiants et à contributer à l'avancement des connaissances par des activités de recherche. toutes les ressources de l'université ont été dépensées dans le cadre le cardre de sa mission par…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ Institut De Recherche De L'hopital D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Fanshawe College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 29 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITE LAVAL — C$1,046,349 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$696,533 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHospital for Sick Children — C$500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSITIUTE — C$499,682 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$449,682 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL — C$299,788 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$294,104 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPITAL SHRINERS POUR ENFANTS(QUEBEC) INC./SHRINERS HOSPITAL — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO RESEARCH INSTITUTE... — C$190,896 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLAWSON RESEARCH INSTITUTE/INDTITUT DE RECHERCHES LAWSON — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$110,684 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHU de Quebec — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO — C$68,570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$6,339 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThames Valley Education Foundation — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFANSHAWE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 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.

Société de Recherche …Fondation Brain Canad…Canada GivesMy Tribute Gift Found…Strategic Charitable …Charities Aid Foundat…United Way East Ontar…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research SocietyQC9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research Society · Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation · Canada Gives · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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 29 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 public foundation under supportive health care.

Source object 895097756:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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