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Burlington, ON · Private foundation

The Joyce Family Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to support the social economic and emotional well-being of children and youth by empowering them to develop into healthy confident independent contributors to canadian society by making gifts to other qualified donees in canada.

C$29M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$287k
  • C$50k–250k23 grants · C$1.4M
  • C$250k+25 grants · C$27M
C$75,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$552M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$2,500,000
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$2,000,000
FANSHAWE COLLEGEC$2,000,000
ALGONQUIN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHC$2,000,000
NIAGARA COLLEGEC$1,500,000
NIPPISSING UNIVERSITYC$1,500,000
PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADAC$1,500,000
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWAC$1,275,000
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLANDC$1,265,000
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITYC$1,000,000
HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
INDSPIREC$1,000,000
CANADORE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
WILFRIED LAURIER UNIVERSITYC$1,000,000
SAULT COLLEGEC$1,000,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$72M
Nova Scotia
C$24M
Alberta
C$8.6M
New Brunswick
C$4.9M
Quebec
C$4.7M
Prince Edward Island
C$4.0M
Manitoba
C$3.5M
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$3.0M
British Columbia
C$1.1M

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$96M · 76 repeat orgsC$31M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

76 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
48

Total granted

C$96M
C$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+26%

Still filing today

95%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$18M 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

  • HH
    Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$10M · revenue +69%
  • SF
    St Francis Xavier University
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$6.0M · revenue +16%
  • DU
    Dalhourise University
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$4.5M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$1.5M · revenue +254%
  • TC
    THE CONESTOGA COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ANDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$1.5M · revenue +103%
  • GC
    GEORGIAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$1.5M · revenue +80%

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.

1
The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

The humber college institute of technology and advanced learning is a publicly assisted polytechnic educational institution that offers bachelor degrees diplomas and postgraduate certificates in more than 220 full-time programs and over…

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2
Niagara College Foundation
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3
The Upper Canada College Foundation

Funds provided to upper canada college primarily for needs-based financial assistance for students.

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4
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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5
University of Guelph

The University carries out teaching research extension education activities and opportunities through student scholarships and bursaries travel grants and learning initiatives. In addition the University's operating and ancillary services…

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6
The University of Winnipeg Foundation Inc.

The foundation receives donations from annual giving programs and other campaigns. Funds are gifted to the University of Winnipeg for education purposes (scholarships/bursaries) and for capital and capademic enhancement purposes.

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7
The Northwestern Polytechnic Foundation

Student award programs consisting of bursaries and scholarships for students enrolled in post-secondary educational programs. Contributions to Northwestern Polytechnic for capital and operating expenses.

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8
O a C Alumni Foundation

Scholarships and awards at the university of guelph special initiatives grants programs at the university of guelph

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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
Columbia Foundation

Columbia foundation gifts qualified donees who carry out programs that invest in human and social capital for all canadians: 1. programs undertaken in education training and research and democracy 2. conducting innovative social research…

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11
Canadian Hospitality Foundation

Administer sponsored scholarships -provide scholarships for students enrolled in hospitality-related university and college programs across canada -expanded scholarship eligibility to include additional hospitality-related programs such as…

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12
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Foundation

The NAIT Foundation raises funds to support the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Funds are used for: -scholarships and bursaries granted to NAIT students -operational costs capital equipment needs in support of NAIT's educational…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thompson Rivers University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Creamery Square Association. 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

146 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. 146 of the 149 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
142/146
Grantees still filing
94/146
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 budgetHamilton Health Sciences Foundation — C$10,000,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetSt Francis Xavier University — C$5,950,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMohawk College Foundation — C$5,000,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetDalhourise University — C$4,500,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$3,683,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetNEW BRUNSWICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE — C$3,000,000 over 4y, 85% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$2,700,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$2,500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$2,500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetToronto General & Western Hosptial Foundation — C$2,500,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE MONCTON — C$2,500,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$2,001,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHolland College Foundation — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetCANADORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSouthern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBISHOP'S UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetALGONQUIN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECH — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBrock University — C$2,000,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFANSHAWE COLLEGE — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$1,681,875 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCNIB FOUNDATION — C$1,664,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSaint Mary's University — C$1,600,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNIPPISSING UNIVERSITY — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetIWK Foundation — C$1,500,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE CONESTOGA COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNIAGARA COLLEGE — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRED RIVER COLLEGE — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMcMaster University (MCYU) — C$1,350,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph's Healthcare Foundation Hamilton — C$1,350,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$1,275,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND — C$1,265,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY — C$1,000,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNF FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetDURHAM COLLEGE — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWILFRIED LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQEII FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KINGS COLLEGE — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSAULT COLLEGE — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASSINIBOINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC. — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetLakehead University — C$1,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

Walker Wood FoundationThe Community Foundat…The Windsor FoundationNiagara Community Fou…River Philip Foundati…Canerector FoundationThe Leonard FoundationHamilton Community Fo…Weston Family Foundat…Harrison McCain Found…Enactus CanadaThe McCain Foundation
Walker Wood FoundationNS19× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walker Wood Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · The Windsor Foundation · Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · River Philip Foundation · Canerector Foundation · The Leonard Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Harrison McCain Foundation · Enactus Canada · The McCain 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 149 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 888159266:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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