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London, ON · Private foundation

The Walter J Blackburn Foundation

The foundation funds capital needs for charitable organizations in the fields of health care social services the arts education and the environment.

C$255k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$48k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$35k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$220k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVEST OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC.C$48,000
LONDON HUMANE SOCIETYC$30,000
WINDSOR CANCER CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
LONDON AND AREA FOOD BANK INCC$25,000
MUSEUM LONDONC$21,690
LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUMC$20,000
THAMES TALBOT LAND TRUSTC$10,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL LONDON DEANERY PARTICULARC$10,000
KAWARTHA TURTLE TRAUMA CENTREC$10,000
HURON HOSPICE VOLUNTEER SERVICEC$10,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY SOUTHWEST PARTNERSC$10,000
LONDON AND MIDDLESEX HERITAGE MUSEUMC$9,600
UNITED WAY / CENTRAIDE WINDSOR-ESSEX COUNTYC$9,095
MONTESSORI ACADEMY OF LONDON INC.C$8,801
PILLAR NONPROFIT NETWORKC$7,401
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.0M · 42 repeat orgsC$641k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
66

Total granted

C$1.0M
C$564k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$76k 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

  • SH
    ST.JOSEPH'S HOSPICE
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$103k · revenue +37%
  • HO
    HARVEST OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC.
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$79k · revenue +33%
  • LC
    LONDON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$63k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GRAND THEATRE
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue -94%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF LEGINgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue +108%
  • RL
    REFOREST LONDONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k · revenue +35%

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
London Health Sciences Centre

London Health Sciences Centre is a teaching hospital located in London Ontario Canada. LHSC provides compassionate care to communities we serve

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2
Erie Shores Health Foundation

Erie shores health foundation raises capital for new equipment and building infrastructure for erie shores healthcare; capital campaigns currently being supported include diagnostic imaging mri equipment and urology. erie shores health…

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3
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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4
London Health Sciences Centre Research Inc.

To carry on or promote medical scientific research and experimental development (including basic and clinical research to produce scientific knowledge that contributes to the alleviation and prevention of human disease) at or in…

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5
Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health

The purpose of ontario shores foundation is to raise funds for the strategic priorities of the hospital and its partner organizations. fundraising revenue supports program innovation research education programs that promote mental health…

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6
William Osler Health System Foundation

William Osler Health System Foundation (Osler Foundation) provides funding to William Osler Health System (Osler) a leading hospital system serving more than 1.3 million people in Brampton North Etobicoke Caledon and surrounding…

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7
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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8
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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9
Windsor Regional Hospital Foundation

The foundation collects and administers funds on behalf of windsor regional hospital

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10
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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11
The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital

The foundation's mission is to transform healthcare through giving. we achieve this through a range of fundraising programs carried out by our professional team and volunteers. ongoing programs include annual monthly and online giving;…

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12
South Huron Hospital Foundation

Raise funds for improvement of health care services in the area served by south huron hospital

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bereaved Families of Ontario - Southwest Region and the most unlike its peers is House of Sophrosyne. 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

107 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. 107 of the 113 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/107
Grantees still filing
79/107
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 budgetST.JOSEPH'S HOSPICE — C$103,065 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHARVEST OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC. — C$79,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLONDON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — C$63,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSARI THERAPEAUTIC RIDING — C$60,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$55,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDWELL — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLONDON HUMANE SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHAMES TALBOT LAND TRUST — C$40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSt. Joseph's Health Care Foundation — C$38,038 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA — C$37,112 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWINDSOR CANCER CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYOU — C$32,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Health Foundation — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Windsor Essex County — C$28,595 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPILAR NONPROFIT NETWORK — C$27,575 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEASTER SEALS ONTARIO — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRAND THEATRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF LEGIN — C$25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetLONDON AND AREA FOOD BANK INC — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM LONDON — C$21,690 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREFOREST LONDON — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetL'ARCHE STRATFORD — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLONDON COMMUNITY DENTAL ALLIANCE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetParticipation House Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOREST CITY FILM FESTIVAL — C$19,163 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetWESTERN UNIVRSITY — C$19,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRESCIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — C$18,887 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY SOUTHWEST PARTNERS — C$17,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMONTESSORI ACADEMY OF LONDON INC. — C$16,440 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS MENTAL HEALTH OPTIMIST CLUB OF CANADA — C$16,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCNIB — C$15,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINVESTING IN CHIILDREN — C$15,883 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHURON HOSPICE VOLUNTEER SERVICE — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLONDON COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetPORT BURWELL PERISCOPE PLAYHOUSE — C$15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSTRATFORD PERTH ROTARY HOSPICE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LONDON AND AREA — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetONTARIO FARMLAND TRUST — C$14,800 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLONG POINT BASIN LAND TRUST — C$13,213 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJA SOUTH WESTERN ONTARIO — C$12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHATHAM-KENT HOSPICE FOUNDATION — C$12,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVanier Children's Services — C$11,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLondon Public Library — C$10,151 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGETOWN AND AREA ADULT CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKAWARTHA TURTLE TRAUMA CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetACCESS OPEN MINDS / BLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

London Community Foun…Westminster College F…Mowbray and Doris Sif…The Jack and Barbara …United Way Elgin Midd…The Lawson FoundationLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVI…The Agape Foundation …Congregation of the S…The London Police Ass…Elgin-St. Thomas Comm…London Knights Alumni…
London Community FoundationON39.4× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: London Community Foundation · Westminster College Foundation · Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation · The Jack and Barbara Hay Foundation · United Way Elgin Middlesex · The Lawson Foundation · LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (London) · The Agape Foundation of London · Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada · The London Police Association Charity Fund · Elgin-St. Thomas Community Foundation · London Knights Alumni 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.

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 113 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 advancing education.

Source object 119262038:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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