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Uxbridge, ON · Private foundation

The M.H. Brigham Foundation

To receive and maintain a fund and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the income tax act (canada).

C$583k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$493k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$80k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$493k
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADA HELPSC$493,204
TRECC$40,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCEC$25,000
482 COLLECTIVEC$15,000
Big Brothers/Big Sisters North DurhamC$5,000
GEORGIAN BAY BIOSPHEREC$5,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.2M · 14 repeat orgsC$117k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 5 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

14
6

Total granted

C$6.2M
C$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
+42%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • CA
    CLEAN AIR ALLIANCE
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$1.3M · revenue +208% · 39% of their budget
  • CH
    CANADA HELPS
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +223%
  • CE
    CLEAN ENERGY CANADA - SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$1.1M · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • EJ
    Eco Justice
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k
  • CE
    CLEAN ECONOMY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +176%
  • EW
    ESPRIT WOMEN'S SHELTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue ×23

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
Td Friends of the Environment Foundation

Td friends of the environment foundation (tdfef) is a national charity that funds environmental projects across canada. with the support from our donors td fef has provided more than $117 million to over 29 000 environmental projects and…

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2
Environmental Education Ontario Inc

The organization supports the implementation of a strategic plan for environmental and sustainability education in Ontario that will ensure future generations inherit a healthy province.

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3
The Pollution Probe Foundation

Transportation: We develop tools to support rail decarbonization & monitor decarbonization efforts & best practices. We support the installation of new EV charging stations through a funding program which provides up to 50% of purchase &…

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4
EcoSchools Canada

EcoSchools Canada delivers programs to advance environmental education and leadership in K-12 schools across Canada. Ongoing programs include a certification program for K-12 schools that promotes and recognizes environmental learning and…

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5
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…

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6
The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation

Alberta ecotrust foundation implements programs and projects to protect the environment which includes protecting the quality of air and water wildlife habitat parks and suburban land use. in addition to its own projects and in pursuit of…

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7
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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8
Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement

All of environment funders canada's programs are designed to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the canadian environment and to support a vibrant network of philanthropic and other funders working individually…

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9
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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10
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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11
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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12
The David Suzuki Foundation

The David Suzuki Foundation works through science and education to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life now and for the future.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trec Charitable Foundation and the most unlike its peers is District of Parry Sound Social Services Administration Board. 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

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
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 budgetCLEAN AIR PARTNERSHIP — C$1,585,241 over 2y, 52% of budgetCLEAN AIR ALLIANCE — C$1,325,100 over 3y, 39% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$1,312,109 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY CANADA - SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$1,065,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTREC EDUCATION — C$186,871 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetEnvironmental Defence for EMERG — C$175,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetECO JUSTICE — C$110,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ENVIROMENTAL STEWARDSHIP — C$106,868 over 3y, 9.8% of budget482 COLLECTIVE — C$91,982 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY BIOSPHERE — C$80,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetNORTHERN ONTARIO CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — C$70,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetCLEAN ECONOMY FUND — C$50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetALMA CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FOUNDATION RECEIPT A001355 — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBEACHES UNITED CHURCH — C$13,993 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetESPRIT WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetBig Brothers/Big Sisters North Durham — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREEN DURHAM ASSOCIATION — C$1,050 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Charity — C$450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$400 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.

The George Cedric Met…Fondation Écho /Echo …The Peter Gilgan Foun…The Trottier Family F…Toronto FoundationIvey FoundationThe J W McConnell Fam…Td Friends of the Env…The McLean FoundationGiftpact Foundation I…Aqueduct FoundationVancouver Foundation
The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable FoundationON9.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Toronto Foundation · Ivey Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver 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 21 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 810551192:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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