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St Laurent, QC · Private foundation

The Velan Foundation / La fondation Velan

The organization provides support for low-income individuals and families in need

C$344k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$45k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$224k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$75k
C$2,500
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA RUE DES FEMMES DE MONTREALC$74,750
FOUNDATION PAPILLONC$40,000
FONDATION DU MACC$40,000
SUN YOUTH ORGANIZATIONC$35,000
LOWER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$33,250
CENTRAIDE DE GRAND MONTREALC$22,000
MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTREALC$14,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADAC$10,000
COLORECTAL CANCER CANADAC$10,000
CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATIONC$6,250
JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CANADIAN HUMALAYAN ASSOCIATION FOR INNOVATIONC$5,000
DÉFI CANDEREL / CANDEREL CHALLENGEC$3,700
MUHC FOUNDATIONC$3,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 41 repeat orgsC$97k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
9

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+34%

Still filing today

95%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$71k went to new ones.

50%100%’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
    LOWER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$209k · revenue +170%
  • SY
    SUN YOUTH ORGANIZATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$183k · revenue +255%
  • MG
    MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$135k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TT
    THEATRE TEESRI DUNIYA
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +9%
  • MU
    McGill Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +34%
  • DB
    DESTA BLACK YOUTH NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +50%

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 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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
La Fondation de l'Université Laval
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6
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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7
La fondation de l'institut thoracique de Montréal / the Montréal Chest Institute Foundation

Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre

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8
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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9
Chu de Québec - Université Laval

Affilié à l'université laval le chu de québec - université laval dispense des soins et des services de santé généraux spécialisés et surspécialisés en y intégrant l'enseignement la recherche clinique et fondamentale et l'évaluation des…

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10
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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11
Banting Discovery Foundation Fondation Banting pour la Découverte
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12
Fondation Université du Québec

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/the Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Défi Canderel. 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

56 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. 56 of the 57 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
32/56
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 budgetFoundation La Rue des Femmes — C$342,643 over 4y, 15% of budgetLA RUE DES FEMMES DE MONTREAL — C$317,150 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetLOWER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$209,140 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetSUN YOUTH ORGANIZATION — C$183,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$135,115 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION PAPILLON — C$120,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY OF CANADA — C$55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAIDE DE GRAND MONTREAL — C$51,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION DU MAC — C$40,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCANADIAN HIMALAYAN ASSOCIATION FOR INNOVATION — C$27,000 over 6y, 86% of budgetCANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION — C$25,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$17,733 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTAUR THEATRE — C$17,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBROME MISSISQUOI PERKINS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$17,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMUHC FOUNDATION — C$15,880 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLes Amis de la Montagne — C$15,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTUMOR FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL — C$14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETICS CANADA — C$10,630 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHEATRE TEESRI DUNIYA — C$9,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$9,430 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CELIAC ASSOCIATION — C$7,200 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAdaptive Sports Foundation — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUT DU CANCER DE MONTREAL - DEFI CANDEREL — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION MANITOU — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPrincess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$5,075 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTyndale St-Georges — C$5,030 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMcGill University — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESTA BLACK YOUTH NETWORK — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINFINITHEATRE — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRenaissance Lac Brome — C$4,030 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDÉFI CANDEREL / CANDEREL CHALLENGE — C$3,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA — C$3,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYMCAs of Quebec Foundation — C$2,565 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHÉÂTRE LYRICHORÉGRA 20 — C$2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetST MATHIAS CHURCH — C$2,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$2,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$2,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S LIBRARY — C$1,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMEDICALERT FOUNDATION — C$1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budget60 MILLION GIRLS — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

Fondation de la famil…Jewish Community Foun…La Fondation du Grand…R. Howard Webster Fou…The Hay Foundation/La…Conam Charitable Foun…Centraide Du Grand Mo…Wcpd FoundationMorris and Rosalind G…The J W McConnell Fam…Fondation DesjardinsThe Azrieli Foundatio…
Fondation de la famille ZellerQC16.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation de la famille Zeller · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · The Hay Foundation/La Fondation Hay · Conam Charitable Foundation · Centraide Du Grand Montréal · Wcpd Foundation · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Fondation Desjardins · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli

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 57 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 119261352:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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