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Waterloo, ON · Private foundation

The Lazaridis Family Foundation

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C$7.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$3.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,500,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$226M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PERIMETER INSTITUTEC$3,412,225
STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONC$2,500,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADAC$913,511
THE CHAPEL & YORK CANADA FOUNDATIONC$900,000
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$40M · 7 repeat orgsC$16M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

C$40M
C$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.8M 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

  • TS
    THE STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$14M · revenue +24%
  • SS
    STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$7.5M · revenue +58% · 32% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
    2× · 2018–2020 · C$6.2M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA
    one grant, 2020 · C$5.0M
  • GR
    GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$3.8M · revenue +153% · 44% of their budget
  • SM
    ST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$2.0M · revenue +125%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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5
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ Institut De Recherche De L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital research institute is an independent health research facility closely affiliated with the ottawa hospital and the university of ottawa committed to excellence in the creation of scientific knowledge that contributes to…

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6
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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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
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation

The Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation raises funds and manages donor gifts for the purpose of supporting outstanding patient care at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. This includes raising funds for identified capital…

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9
La Fondation De L'hÔPital GÉNÉRal De MontrÉAl the MontrÉAl General Hospital Foundation

Distribute funds to the benefit of the montreal general hospital mcgill university health centre and affiliated entities of mcgill university academic health centre and other organizations of the quebec health network for equipment…

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10
Ivey Business School Foundation

Ivey Business School Foundation operates facilities to support educational programs and research for the Ivey Business School and Western University. Facilities are maintained in two Ontario locations: London and Toronto. The Foundation…

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11
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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12
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation and the most unlike its peers is David Mcantony Gibson Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 20 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
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 budgetTHE STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA — C$13,792,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetSTRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — C$7,500,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$6,150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetQUANTUM VALLEY IDEAS LABORATORIES — C$6,000,000 over 4y, 78% of budgetPERIMETER INSTITUTE — C$4,949,958 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetGRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,780,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetST. MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,980,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCAMBRIDGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,740,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetGLOBAL MEDIC — C$1,500,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetFONDATION DE L'INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES CLINIQUES DE MONTREAL — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetSOUTH BRUCE GREY HEALTH CENTRE — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$913,511 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CHAPEL & YORK CANADA FOUNDATION — C$900,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST KITCHENER ONTARIO — C$15,805 over 1y, 21% of budgetGreater Essex County District School Board — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A MONTREAL — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER — C$1,000 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.

Aqueduct FoundationCanada GivesRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Private Giving Founda…Charitable Gift Funds…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …Charities Aid Foundat…My Tribute Gift Found…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…
Aqueduct FoundationBC8.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aqueduct Foundation · Canada Gives · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Private Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 20 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 829916097:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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