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Saint-Laurent, QC · Private foundation

The Polykar Foundation

Maintaining funds to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees involved in among other things the following fields: education health environment and international aid.

C$136k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$59k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$59k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$59k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FONDATION HEC MONTREALC$58,532
AGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADAC$33,000
FONDATION HEC MONTREALC$25,500
SHINE FOUNDATIONC$6,443
FOCUS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CANADAC$5,000
THE LUCAS FOUNDATIONC$3,300
THE STUDYC$2,000
DOUGLAS FOUNDATIONC$1,500
LA DAUPHINELLEC$500
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$200
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$465k · 4 repeat orgsC$66k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

C$465k
C$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$11k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • FH
    FONDATION HEC MONTREAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$238k · revenue +67%
  • AK
    AGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$199k · revenue +62%
  • FH
    FOCUS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CANADA
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$22k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue +3%
  • SH
    SELWYN HOUSE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +28%
  • L
    LEUCAN
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue -4%

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
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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2
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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3
La Fondation de l'Université Laval
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4
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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5
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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6
Fondation Université du Québec

Octroi de bourses et financement de projets de recherche ou de développement pour les institutions universitaires.

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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
Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation

To receive and invest funds and apply them to health care activities research and the teaching mandate for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre it's related institutions and other qualified donees with a similar mission.

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9
Fondation Héma-Québec/Héma-Québec Foundation

La fondation héma-québec a pour mission de soutenir financièrement la conception et le développement des projets novatuers destinés à maintenir héma-québec à la fine pointe des connaissances et des services liés à son expertise et à ses…

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10
Le Fonds Quebecois Pour Le Developpement International
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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation de l'hôpital St. Mary's / St. Mary's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Action for Women's Empowerment Global. 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

16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
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 budgetFONDATION HEC MONTREAL — C$238,253 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$198,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CANADA — C$22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LUCAS FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHINE FOUNDATION — C$6,443 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSELWYN HOUSE ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOUGLAS FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEUCAN — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTRI SUD — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA DAUPHINELLE — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOUR DE LA TERRE — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$200 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.

Jewish Community Foun…La Fondation du Grand…Conam Charitable Foun…Wcpd FoundationAqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Charities Aid Foundat…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de MontréalQC9.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · Conam Charitable Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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 16 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 2024-06-30, 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 726614688:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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