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Oakville, ON · Private foundation

The Wilson Foundation la Fondation Wilson

The wilson foundation supports charitable projects or initiatives which will strengthen and enrich canada in the areas of education leadership community history and heritage and public policy and public service where a gift will make a discernable difference and where appropriate attract additional (matching) support.

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 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–50k6 grants · C$145k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$300k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.0M
C$25,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ROYAL CONSERVATORYC$600,000
AQUEDUCT FOUNDATIONC$400,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$200,000
CANADA'S HISTORY SOCIETYC$100,000
MONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE-HOSPITALC$25,000
UNITED WAY HALTON & HAMILTONC$25,000
MCMASTER UNIVERSITYC$25,000
FRASER INSTITUTEC$25,000
CD HOWE INSTITUTEC$25,000
QUEENS UNIVERSITYC$20,000
BISHOP'S UNIVERSITYC$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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$31M · 18 repeat orgsC$1.5M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
10

Total granted

C$31M
C$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+36%

Still filing today

94%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • MU
    MCMASTER UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$23M · revenue +39%
  • TV
    THE VARITAS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$2.1M · revenue ×42 · 47% of their budget
  • RF
    ROM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$1.5M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CH
    Canadian History Museum
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k
  • CC
    Canadian Constitution Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue -53%
  • TC
    THE CANADIANCANOE MUSEUMgraduated
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$50k · revenue +304%

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
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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2
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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3
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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4
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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5
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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6
Universities Canada Universités Canada

Universities canada is the national voice for canadian universities. universities canada represents 96 public and private not-for-profit universities and university degree-level colleges. we are a membership organization providing…

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7
University of Waterloo

The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.

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8
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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9
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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10
Ocad University Foundation
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11
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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12
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stanstead Historical Society. 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

30 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. 30 of the 32 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
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 budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$23,344,333 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE VARITAS FOUNDATION — C$2,100,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetROM FOUNDATION — C$1,500,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTVO — C$970,600 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHISTORICA CANADA — C$675,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetTHE ROYAL CONSERVATORY — C$600,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBROCK UNIVERSITY — C$505,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE — C$500,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCANADA'S HISTORY — C$430,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetAQUEDUCT FOUNDATION — C$400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcDonald Laurier Institute — C$175,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCD HOWE INSTITUTE — C$175,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OAKVILLE — C$175,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFRASER INSTITUE — C$175,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetQueens University — C$140,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMount Allison Univeristy — C$105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Constitution Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CANADIANCANOE MUSEUM — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBishopès University — C$35,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE-HOSPITAL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCMICHAEL ART GALLERY — C$22,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJunior Achievement — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTANSTEAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE HILL 70 MEMORIAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetENOCH TURNER SCHOOLHOUSE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKVILLE WIND ORCHESTRA — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

Toronto FoundationJackman FoundationBurgundy Legacy Found…Canada GivesWeston Family Foundat…Wcpd FoundationR. Howard Webster Fou…Aqueduct FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…The John Dobson Found…Conam Charitable Foun…Fiera Capital Foundat…
Toronto FoundationON11.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Canada Gives · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Wcpd Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Aqueduct Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · The John Dobson Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital

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 32 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 877826529:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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