Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Trust Under the Will of Thomas Lyall Hay
To provide scholarships for students to attend a Canadian University or a Canadian theological college.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k8 grants · C$18k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODSTOCK GENERAL HOSPITAL | C$320,270 |
| KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH | C$3,500 |
| WESTERN UNIVERSITY | C$3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO | C$3,500 |
| YMCA OF WESTERN ONTARIO | C$1,600 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | C$800 |
| VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES | C$800 |
| WOODSTOCK ROTARY CLUB | C$400 |
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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- WGWOODSTOCK GENERAL HOSPITAL8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +48%
- KPKNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH8× · 2017–2024 · C$32k · revenue +8%
- YOYMCA OF WESTERN ONTARIO8× · 2017–2024 · C$13k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- MUMCMASTER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · C$4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…
United way of windsor-essex
King's university college is an co-educational liberal arts university offering post-secondary education in several disciplines including social work humanities and social science
The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.
Providing education
Issuance of scholarships to waterloo region students
The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.
Scholarships
London Health Sciences Centre is a teaching hospital located in London Ontario Canada. LHSC provides compassionate care to communities we serve
Carleton University provides post-secondary education.
The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…
Scholarships and awards at the university of guelph special initiatives grants programs at the university of guelph
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southwestern Ontario and the most unlike its peers is Knox Presbyterian Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WOODSTOCK GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF WESTERN ONTARIO ↗
- Who funds WESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds LION'S CLUB OF WOODSTOCK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: My Tribute Gift Foundation · Canadahelps Canadon
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.