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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Sj Foundation

The Foundation donates to qualified donees to support community education and health initiatives environmental protection plus disaster and poverty relief.

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$300k
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$10k1 grant · C$4k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$805k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$300k
C$100,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Regional Food Distribution Association of Northwestern OntC$300,000
Shepherds of Good Hope FoundationC$200,000
Canadian Wildlife FederationC$200,000
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario FoundationC$150,000
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health FoundationC$100,000
Hull ServicesC$100,000
Pacific Salmon FoundationC$55,000
Western Ottawa Community Resource CentreC$30,000
St. Margarets SchoolC$25,000
Prime Quadrant FoundationC$4,000
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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 6 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$434k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+122%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$950k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’22’23’24
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$855k · revenue +70%
  • HS
    Hull Services
    2× · 2020–2024 · C$104k · revenue +8%
  • WO
    WESTERN OTTAWA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$67k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • FF
    Foundation for an Entrepreneurial Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$300k · revenue +122%
  • AK
    AGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +36%
  • TS
    The Seltzer-Chan Pond Inlet Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue -52%

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
Earthroots Fund

Earthroots fund works to promote the protection of canada's wilderness wildlife and watersheds through research and public education

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2
Canadian Agri-Food Foundation
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3
Ontario Headwaters Institute

Research & education; public & organizational engagement

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4
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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5
Wetlands Canada Foundation
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6
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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7
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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8
Food First Foundation Nwt

Nutrition education program development and distribution for schools in the northwest territories and food program funding support for schools in the northwest territories.

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9
Watersheds Canada
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10
The Canada Prize Awards Foundation

Preliminary planning and preparation for delivery of the canada prize for earth and environmental sciences

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11
The Seagull Foundation

The seagull foundation is committed to funding and supporting projects primarily focused on education and the environment. in the pugwash river estuary the foundation has preserved over 175 acres. it has worked in conjunction with the…

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12
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indspire and the most unlike its peers is Zoe Valle Library. 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

19 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
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 budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATION — C$855,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRegional Food Distribution Association of Northwestern Ont — C$300,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCanadian Wildlife Federation — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetShepherds of Good Hope Foundation — C$200,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION FONDATION — C$155,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHull Services — C$104,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN OTTAWA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$67,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST. MARGARETS SCHOOL — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPrime Quadrant Foundation — C$10,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Seltzer-Chan Pond Inlet Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPlastic Oceans Foundation Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetEcospark Environmental Organization — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWater First Education and Training Inc. — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZoe Valle Library — C$5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetIndspire — C$4,000 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.

Ottawa Community Foun…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Vancouver FoundationRaymond James Canada …BenefAction FoundationToronto FoundationAqueduct FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Private Giving Founda…Strategic Charitable …Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Vancouver Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Private Giving Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance 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 19 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 851201285:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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