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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

The Lemessurier Foundation

The foundation engages in charitable programs specially the disbursement of funds to 'qualified donees' within the meaning of the income tax act (canada).

C$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$17k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k29 grants · C$42k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$27k
C$1,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATIONC$17,400
THE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (OLLIE &C$10,000
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLANDC$5,000
TERESA DELLAR PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
NATIVE WOMEN'S SHELTER OF MONTREALC$3,000
GROS MORNE SUMMER MUSICC$2,000
SOARING CIRCLE (I LOVE FIRST PEOPLES)C$2,000
ON ROCK COMMUNITY SERVICESC$2,000
SELWYN HOUSE ASSOCIATIONC$2,000
MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,500
WEST ISLAND WOMEN'S SHELTERC$1,500
CEDARS CANCERC$1,500
TERESA DELLAR ANNUAL COMMITMENTC$1,250
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,000
ST. PETER'S PARISHC$1,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$379k · 43 repeat orgsC$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
13

Total granted

C$379k
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+2%

Still filing today

98%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • TM
    THE MONTREAL'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$73k · revenue +54%
  • WI
    WEST ISLAND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$51k · revenue +108%
  • MU
    MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$24k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • GM
    GROS MORNE SUMMER MUSIC
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k
  • TC
    THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k
  • RV
    Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k

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 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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2
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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3
La fondation de l'institut thoracique de Montréal / the Montréal Chest Institute Foundation

Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre

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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
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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11
Fondation de l'hôpital Lasalle

Recueillir et administrer des fonds pour effectuer des dons en équipements à l'hôpital de lasalle afin de renouveler 'équipement médical spécialisé.

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation De L'hopital Royal Victoria/Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Western Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. 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 60 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MONTREAL'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$73,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWEST ISLAND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION — C$51,106 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND — C$24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS CANCER — C$18,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION — C$17,400 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGROS MORNE COOPERATING ASSOCIATION — C$16,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSP. FOUNDATION — C$10,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRAFALGAR ROSS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLAKESHORE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGROS MORNE SUMMER MUSIC — C$10,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWEST ISLAND WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$10,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetON ROCK COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$9,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE WOMEN'S SHELTER OF MONTREAL — C$9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetI LOVE FIRST PEOPLES — C$8,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSELWYN HOUSE ASSOCIATION — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Canada Foundation — C$7,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATUION — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMUHC Foundation — C$6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Peter's Anglican Church — C$6,200 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSUITECASES FOR AFRICA — C$5,200 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetLCC — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — C$4,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetST JOHN THE EVANGELIST — C$4,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMONTREAL ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA'S OF QUEBEC FOUNDATION — C$3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION PROJECT CHANCE INC. — C$3,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetQUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN CANADA — C$2,436 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOLD BREWERY MISSION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEREDALE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQueen Elizabeth Health Complex — C$1,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOSD FOUNDATION — C$1,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRoyal Victoria Hospital Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART SCHOOL OF MONTREAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSun Youth — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAtwater Library — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Canada — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST ISLAND ASS. FOR THE INTELLECTUAL HANDICAPED — C$950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA INC — C$950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTERESA DELLAR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$850 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetDR. H. BLISS MURRAY CANCER CARE FOUNDATION (SWIM FOR HOPE) — C$600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON QUEBEC — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDE TO CONQUER CANCER — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Birks Family Foun…CN Employees' and Pen…Jewish Community Foun…The Highwater Foundat…R. Howard Webster Fou…Fondation de la famil…La Fondation Rossy th…The John Dobson Found…La Fondation du Grand…Conam Charitable Foun…Morris and Rosalind G…Hylcan Foundation / L…
The Birks Family Foundation / La fondation de la famille BirksQC14× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Birks Family Foundation / La fondation de la famille Birks · CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Highwater Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Fondation de la famille Zeller · La Fondation Rossy the Rossy Foundation · The John Dobson Foundation · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · Conam Charitable Foundation · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · Hylcan Foundation / La Fondation Hylcan

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 60 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 844076109:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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