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Regina, SK · Private foundation

The Tree of Life Foundation Inc.

The foundation makes charitable disbursements to worthwhile causes

C$953k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$247k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$129k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$819k
C$72,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Canadian Women's FoundationC$247,000
Canadian Red CrossC$125,000
Annauma (Annaumakkaijiit) Community FoundationC$125,000
Save the ChildrenC$100,000
PIH Partners In HealthC$100,000
Aboriginal Housing Management AssociationC$72,000
South Saskatchewan Community FoundationC$50,000
Luther CollegeC$44,266
BirthmarkC$35,000
YWCA ReginaC$25,000
IndspireC$25,000
Killarney Foundation Inc.C$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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.0M · 20 repeat orgsC$990k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
28

Total granted

C$3.0M
C$650k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+32%

Still filing today

95%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$340k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • LC
    LUTHER COLLEGE REGINA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$619k · revenue +12%
  • YR
    YWCA REGINA
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$525k · revenue +57%
  • CA
    Cornwall Alternative School
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$50k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • GC
    GRAND CHALLENGES CANADA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$300k · revenue +112% · 49% of their budget
  • CF
    CHEAKAMUS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +32% · 29% of their budget
  • RD
    REGINA & DISTRICT FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +66%

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
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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2
The Calgary Foundation

The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…

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3
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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4
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation

We run funding competitions that provide: 1. Grants to new university faculty members to start their health research programs; 2. Grants for advanced research training in health areas;; 3. Support for Researchers to exchange ideas and work…

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5
The Canadian Foundation for Women's Health

To distribute funding to organizations and universities for research in the field of women's sexual reproductive health.

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6
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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7
Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes

Shoppers foundation for women's health purpose is to foster health equity for women by increasing access to care and support improving awareness of women's unique health needs and providing support for critical women's health research.…

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8
Care Canada

Care canada is a member of care international and international development and humanitarian organization which reaches communities in over 100 countries working to defend dignity and fight poverty by empowering women and girls. the needs…

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9
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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10
Raah Health and Development Foundation Canada

To promote health and relieve poverty in developing nations by providing individuals families and communities who are poor or in need with health care services products and information that prevent and manage serious threats to health and…

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11
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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12
Foundation for Gender Equality in Health and Wellbeing

The Foundation provided grants to registered charities that seek to advance gender equality through public educational programs and social services.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes and the most unlike its peers is The Hospital Art Foundation. 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

51 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. 51 of the 54 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
34/51
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUTHER COLLEGE REGINA — C$619,086 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$595,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA REGINA — C$525,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCanadian Women's Foundation — C$448,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSAVE THE CHILDREN CANADA — C$400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND CHALLENGES CANADA FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetAnnauma (Annaumakkaijiit) Community Foundation — C$125,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCHEAKAMUS FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetPIH Partners In Health — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSouth Saskatchewan Community Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREGINA & DISTRICT FOOD BANK INC — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCornwall Alternative School — C$50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSTEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$42,365 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$35,433 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBirthmark — C$35,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHope's Home — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIndspire — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetEmmanuel Charitable Foundation — C$22,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetRegina Humane Society — C$20,675 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Fighting Blindness — C$18,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRAILS YOUTH INITIATIVE — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE REGINA SCHOOL DIV NO 4 OF SASK — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDoctors Without Borders — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWater First — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREGINA PALIATIVE CARE — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBC SPCA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association (Sask. Division) — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCNIB — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA PRINCE ALBERT — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRed Maple Foundation/This Magazine — C$8,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBrain Aneurysm Foundation — C$6,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetRegina Early Learning — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOUTH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKillarney Foundation Inc. — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCarmichael Outreach — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREVELSTOKE WOMENS SHELTER SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDRIVING WITH DIGNITY CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGINA TRANSITION HOUSE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITAL ART FOUNDATION — C$3,160 over 2y, 100% of budgetSofia House — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUE NORTH AID — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRegina Open Door Society — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANCH EHRLO SOCIETY — C$3,000 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.

Saskatchewan Communit…United Way of ReginaAccess Communications…Lorne and Evelyn John…Sasktel Telcare Emplo…Lawton Partners Chari…Wesley United ChurchMadonna FoundationSaskatoon Community F…Lily Street FoundationBoard of Education of…Value Partners Charit…
Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.SK19.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp. · United Way of Regina · Access Communications Children's Fund Inc. · Lorne and Evelyn Johnson Foundation · Sasktel Telcare Employees Charity Trust · Lawton Partners Charitable Giving Foundation Inc. · Wesley United Church · Madonna Foundation · Saskatoon Community Foundation · Lily Street Foundation · Board of Education of the Regina Roman Catholic Separate School Division No.81 of Saskatchewan · Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.

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 54 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 876536806:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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