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L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING (Quebec) receives grants from 476 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$410,631,746 to it, the largest being Mastercard Foundation (C$80,032,403). 323 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$1.8B
Revenue FY2024
476
Funders on record
C$411M
Grants received
C$2.1B
Net assets
323/476 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 220 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · above the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 220 teaching institutions nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$1.3B) Expenses 100 (C$1.3B) Net assets 100 (C$1.5B)2018 Revenue 106 (C$1.3B) Expenses 107 (C$1.3B) Net assets 100 (C$1.5B)2019 Revenue 114 (C$1.5B) Expenses 112 (C$1.4B) Net assets 104 (C$1.6B)2020 Revenue 115 (C$1.5B) Expenses 115 (C$1.5B) Net assets 97 (C$1.5B)2021 Revenue 118 (C$1.5B) Expenses 114 (C$1.4B) Net assets 120 (C$1.8B)2022 Revenue 126 (C$1.6B) Expenses 123 (C$1.6B) Net assets 118 (C$1.8B)2023 Revenue 133 (C$1.7B) Expenses 133 (C$1.7B) Net assets 120 (C$1.9B)2024 Revenue 141 (C$1.8B) Expenses 140 (C$1.8B) Net assets 136 (C$2.1B)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (140)Net assets (136)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 48% · 2018 47% · 2019 47% · 2020 50% · 2021 51% · 2022 51% · 2023 51% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 208 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$14M
’17
C$873k
’18
C$44M
’19
C$23M
’20
C$63M
’21
C$60M
’22
C$21M
’23
C$40M
’24
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 221 funders to 225 funders, grant income rose C$34M → C$77M.

Funder
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total
Mastercard Foundationunclassified
C$80M
Max Bell Foundationunclassified
C$7.6M
Doggone Foundationunclassified
C$5.0M
The Rathlyn Foundationunclassified
C$3.3M
The Schulich Foundationunclassified
C$3.2M
Hewitt Foundationunclassified
C$2.8M
Fondation Frontenacunclassified
C$2.4M
funders
221
234
220
213
203
215
225
226

Left out of every figure on this page: C$11M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING raised.

From the CRA filings of L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 476 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING.

19%
largest funder
34%
top three
~17
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 9% · 2018 15% · 2019 31% · 2020 17% · 2021 17% · 2022 10% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

54% of L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING's grant income comes from Quebec funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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Quebec out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$22M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 476 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government revenue L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$916M
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  • 51% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Quebec

Université Du Québec À Montréal79%Bourses d'études McCall MacBain à McGill / McCALL MacBAIN SCHOLARSHIPS at McGILL74%L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre74%Universite Concordia72%Universite Du Quebec En Outaouais71%Universite Du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres70%Université Laval70%Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal69%

Nationally

Université Du Québec À Montréal79%Queen's University at Kingston75%Bourses d'études McCall MacBain à McGill / McCALL MacBAIN SCHOLARSHIPS at McGILL74%L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre74%Universite Concordia72%Universite Du Quebec En Outaouais71%Universite Du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres70%Université Laval70%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING?
L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING (Quebec) receives grants from 476 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$410,631,746 to it, the largest being Mastercard Foundation (C$80,032,403). 323 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 476 organizations giving C$410,631,746 in grants to L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, 323 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING?
Mastercard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$80,032,403 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like L'INSTITUTION ROYALE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES / ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Quebec.

Play a game about who funds L'Institution Royale Pour L'Avancement Des Sciences / Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning →

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 476 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register