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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

Thistledown Foundation

The foundation made donations to qualified donees during the year.

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$720k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$36k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.2M
C$50,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$720,250
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$490,253
UNITED COUNTIES OF LEEDS AND GRENVILLEC$50,000
TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETYC$25,000
PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADAC$10,605
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$24M
Nova Scotia
C$9.1M
British Columbia
C$5.4M
Alberta
C$4.9M
Quebec
C$4.1M
Saskatchewan
C$2.0M
Manitoba
C$2.0M
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$2.0M

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$23M · 8 repeat orgsC$31M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
46

Total granted

C$23M
C$31M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$61k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • WF
    WINDWARD FUND - DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$7.1M · revenue +25%
  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$6.4M · revenue +7%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$4.7M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • HH
    HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$2.0M · revenue +37%
  • JC
    JANEWAY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$2.0M · revenue +6% · 43% of their budget
  • JP
    JIM PATTISON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$2.0M · revenue -14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
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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2
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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3
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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4
The Ottawa Hospital/L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital is a three-campus hospital model with two full service campuses (civic and general). the objective of the hospital is to provide quality patient care through education and research and is dedicated to improving the…

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5
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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6
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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7
University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De L'universite D'ottawa

We operate endowed and non-endowed programs to benefit cardiac care research education and equipment purchases at the university of ottawa heart institute (uohi) and the ottawa heart institute research corporation (ohirc). we contribute to…

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8
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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9
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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10
La Fondation De L'hÔPital GÉNÉRal De MontrÉAl the MontrÉAl General Hospital Foundation

Distribute funds to the benefit of the montreal general hospital mcgill university health centre and affiliated entities of mcgill university academic health centre and other organizations of the quebec health network for equipment…

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11
Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation

To receive and invest funds and apply them to health care activities research and the teaching mandate for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre it's related institutions and other qualified donees with a similar mission.

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12
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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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 Elgin Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 56 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
40/49
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 budgetWINDWARD FUND - DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$7,060,367 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$6,444,915 over 2y, 18% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$4,659,855 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN — C$2,250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARI FOUNDATION — C$2,025,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetJANEWAY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetJIM PATTISON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTOOLERY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCHU SAINTE-JUSTINE FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetALBERA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONS — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetIWK HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF MANITOBA — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOTTAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK — C$922,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$615,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES CORPORATION — C$500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$432,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSINAL HEALTH SYSTEM — C$362,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITY HEALTH TORONTO — C$350,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$310,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$290,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$260,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY CENTRE — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOTTAWA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$249,982 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOTTAWA FOOD BANK — C$249,982 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES — C$150,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNI — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNICEF — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$70,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$69,231 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALGONQUIN COLLEGE — C$55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKBF FOUNDATION CANADA — C$50,017 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOTTAWA SENATORS FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetREFUGEE613 — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOTTAWA RIVERKEEPER — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$10,605 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUPPER CANADA DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$10,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CROSBY FOOD BANK — C$10,015 over 1y, 21% 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…Praxis Spinal Cord In…Ottawa-Carleton Distr…Wesley M Nicol Founda…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…The Minto Greenberg L…Wcpd FoundationBenefAction FoundationOntario Lung Associat…Diabetes Canada Diabè…Foundation for Advanc…Cystic Fibrosis Canad…
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON11.7× affinity10 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 · Praxis Spinal Cord Institute · Ottawa-Carleton District School Board · Wesley M Nicol Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Ontario Lung Association · Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada · Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine / Fondation Pour L'Avancement de la Médecine Familiale · Cystic Fibrosis Canada/Fibrose Kystique Canada

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 56 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 769485533:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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