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London, ON · Private foundation

Wilf and Jean Bell Foundation

Provides funding to qualified donees in the area of health care and social services.

C$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$75k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$70k
C$6,413
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES - VONC$49,847
LONDON HEALTH SCIENCE FOUNDATIONC$19,939
SALVATION ARMYC$9,969
ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONC$9,969
MERRYMOUNT FAMILY SUPPORTC$9,969
THE CROCHET CLUB OF LONDONC$6,413
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONC$6,413
JENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN CHARITYC$6,413
HOPE AIRC$6,413
THE INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTREC$6,413
SUNSHINE FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$6,413
ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE OF LONDONC$6,413
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$756k · 18 repeat orgsC$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
2

Total granted

C$756k
C$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+24%

Still filing today

94%
100%

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%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • VO
    VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES - VON
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$218k · revenue +4%
  • LH
    LONDON HEALTH SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$98k · revenue +123%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$73k · revenue ×4,680

Funded once

  • WL
    Wellspring London
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue -3%
  • C
    CHILDCAN
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +24%

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
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 Children's Wish Foundation of Canada/La Fondation Canadienne Reves D'enfants

The Foundation granted wishes to children suffering from high risk life threatening illnesses. The foundation also funds research and provides grants to health care facilities in Canada that either research diseases that particularly…

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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 Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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5
Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada

The Foundation is incorporated under the Canada Not for Profit Corporations act and is a registered charity under the Income Tax Act. The Foundation enhances the lives of critically chronically and seriously ill children and their families…

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6
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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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
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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9
Fund Homecare Canada

Fund Homecare Canada is a Canadian registered charitable not-for-profit organization dedicated to making in-home care accessible to palliative cancer patients—a critical and prevalent need that is unfortunately out of reach for many. We…

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10
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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11
The Dream Fund

Fundraising to grant wishes to children who are sick and or in hospital or ongoing care for a terminal illness.

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12
Ryan Saturno Patient Amenities Fund

Supporting families with children or young adults going through a current battle with a cancer related illness within ontario.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity and the most unlike its peers is Independent Living Centre London and Area. 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

20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
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 budgetVICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES - VON — C$217,880 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetLONDON HEALTH SCIENCE FOUNDATION — C$98,094 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$73,124 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetMERRYMOUNT FAMILY SUPPORT — C$68,124 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$50,815 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE OF LONDON — C$33,473 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$30,124 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTRE — C$29,228 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetJENNIFER ASHLEIGH CHILDREN CHARITY — C$24,228 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$22,728 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$16,413 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION — C$14,228 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellspring London — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CROCHET CLUB OF LONDON — C$9,228 over 2y, 18% of budgetYMCA OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY HEARTLAND ONTARIO INC. — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDCAN — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

United Way Elgin Midd…Westminster College F…Mowbray and Doris Sif…London Community Foun…The Jack and Barbara …The London Police Ass…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVI…J.P. Bickell Foundati…London Knights Alumni…Community Foundations…The Mitchell and Kath…The Walter J Blackbur…
United Way Elgin MiddlesexON13.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Elgin Middlesex · Westminster College Foundation · Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation · London Community Foundation · The Jack and Barbara Hay Foundation · The London Police Association Charity Fund · LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (London) · J.P. Bickell Foundation · London Knights Alumni Foundation · Community Foundations of Canada · The Mitchell and Kathryn Baran Family Foundation · The Walter J Blackburn 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 20 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 2024-09-30, 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 891005944:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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