Montréal, QC · Private foundation
The RDJ Fund
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply from time to time all or part thereof and the income derived therefrom to qualified donees in accordance with the income tax act ( canada ).
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$24k
- C$10k–50k7 grants · C$195k
- C$50k–250k3 grants · C$190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDARS CANCER FOUNDATION | C$80,000 |
| THE MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$60,000 |
| THE VERITAS FUND | C$50,000 |
| RMR FOUNDATION | C$45,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA | C$40,000 |
| TYNDALE ST-GEORGES FOUNDATION | C$25,000 |
| TYNDALE ST-GEORGES COMMUNITY CENTRE | C$25,000 |
| DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | C$25,000 |
| ATWATER LIBRARY AND COMPUTER CENTRE | C$25,000 |
| MUHC FOUNDATION | C$10,000 |
| MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE MONTREAL | C$5,000 |
| LES AMIS DE LA MONTAGNE | C$5,000 |
| ACADIA UNIVERSITY | C$5,000 |
| ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| TRAFALGAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | C$4,000 |
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.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.
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
- CCCEDARS CANCER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$520k · revenue +10%
- TMTHE MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$365k · revenue +28%
- TTTHE TYNDALE ST-GEORGES COMMUNITY CENTRE7× · 2018–2024 · C$275k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- LMLE MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE MONTREALone grant, 2020 · C$5k
- MFMAB-MacKay Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +203%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal
La fondaiton a pour but de promouvoir une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de la science des technologies et de leur histoire.
Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal
Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal
Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre
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…
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.
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…
The montreal children's hospital foundation is devoted to raising funds for health care research and teaching activities for children and pregnant women primarily for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre and qualified donees.
Soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement de la recherche et des services à la collectivité de l'université du québec à trois-rivières ainsi que remettre des bourses aux étudiants. dons accessibles aux étudiants et aux…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation and the most unlike its peers is La Résidence Fulford / Fulford Residence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CEDARS CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TYNDALE ST-GEORGES COMMUNITY CENTRE ↗
- Who funds RMR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FUND ↗
- Who funds TRAFALGAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds SELWYN HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TYNDALE ST-GEORGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA ↗
- Who funds THE STUDY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATWATER LIBRARY AND COMPUTER CENTRE ↗
- Who funds LES AMIS DE LA MONTAGNE ↗
- Who funds ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE MONTREAL ↗
- Who funds FULFORD RESIDENCE ↗
- Who funds MUHC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAB-MacKay Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Hay Foundation/La Fondation Hay · Wcpd Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · The Birks Family Foundation / La fondation de la famille Birks · The Molson Foundation/Fondation Molson · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Phyllis Lambert Foundation/La Fondation Phyllis Lambert · The John Dobson Foundation · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · Aqueduct 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.