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Walter C Sumner Foundation

The foundation operates to provide grants and gifts to charitable organizations in canada primary ongoing programs are rsetricted to the award of the walter c sumner fellowships to students who are engaged in or about to begin doctoral studies in chemistry physics or electronics (including electrical engineering) at various…

C$352k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$92k
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$10k10 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$37k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$311k
C$800
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$91,900
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$78,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$77,400
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$63,300
QUEENS UNIVERSITYC$36,500
VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSESC$800
THE SALVATION ARMYC$800
COLCHESTER EAST HANTS REGIONAL LIBRARYC$800
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETYC$800
TRURO DISTRICT GIRL GUIDESC$400
ROTHESAY COLLEGIATE SCHOOLC$300
TRURO KINSMEN CLUBC$200
ROTARY CLUBC$200
LIONS CLUBC$200
COLCHESTER COUNTY BOY SCOUTSC$100
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.1M · 18 repeat orgsC$0 to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
0

Total granted

C$2.1M
C$0

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$711k · revenue +43%
  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$450k · revenue +41%
  • MU
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$352k · revenue +41%

Funded once

    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
    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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    2
    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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    3
    University of Northern British Columbia

    Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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    4
    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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    5
    University of the Fraser Valley

    The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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    6
    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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    7
    Brock University

    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…

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    8
    Thompson Rivers University

    Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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    9
    University of Prince Edward Island

    Post-Secondary Education

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    10
    Carleton University

    Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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    11
    University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

    The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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    12
    The University of Lethbridge

    The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queen's University At Kingston and the most unlike its peers is Colchester-East Hants Regional Library. 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

    16 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. 16 of the 18 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)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    14/16
    Grantees still filing
    11/16
    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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$711,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$449,912 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$352,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$288,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS UNIVERSITY — C$220,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASATCHEWAN - FELLOWSHIPS — C$72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$6,400 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCOLCHESTER-EAST HANTS REGIONAL LIVRARY — C$6,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIAN ORDER NURSES — C$3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRURO DISTRICT GIRL GUIDES — C$3,200 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetROTHESAY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL — C$2,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRURO KINSMEN CLUB — C$1,600 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetLIONS CLUB — C$1,600 over 8y, 100% of budgetROTARY CLUB — C$800 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetROTARY CLUB — C$800 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOLCHESTER BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION — C$700 over 7y, 2.9% 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.

    • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
    • Who funds DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
    • Who funds QUEENS UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SASATCHEWAN - FELLOWSHIPS ↗
    • Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
    • Who funds COLCHESTER-EAST HANTS REGIONAL LIVRARY ↗
    • Who funds VICTORIAN ORDER NURSES ↗
    • Who funds TRURO DISTRICT GIRL GUIDES ↗
    • Who funds ROTHESAY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds TRURO KINSMEN CLUB ↗
    • Who funds LIONS CLUB ↗
    • Who funds ROTARY CLUB ↗
    • Who funds ROTARY CLUB ↗
    • Who funds COLCHESTER BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION ↗

    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.

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    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 18 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 2024-05-31, 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 887460194:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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