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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

A.L. Gray Foundation

We make donations to various charitable organizations in canada.

C$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$3,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TURTLE VALLEY DONKEY REFUGE SOCIETYC$3,500
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$300k · 5 repeat orgsC$39k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

C$300k
C$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
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%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • PI
    PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA INC.
    4× · 2019–2022 · C$70k · revenue +3%
  • RA
    REGIONAL ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$33k · revenue +213%
  • SC
    SEVA CANADA SOCIETY
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$33k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TH
    TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue +35%
  • TJ
    THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE OF CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +34%
  • ST
    SCHARA TZEDECK CEMETARY BOARDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +166%

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
Valley Animal Rescue

Foster and adoption programs seniors and families in need support with food and vetting. Public education animal surrender homes for unadoptable senior and palliative animals TNR-trap spay and neuter and release to control breeding and…

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2
A Forever Home Cat Rescue Society

Cat rescue organization take in stray and unwanted cats spay and neuter adopt to loving homes.

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3
The Ferret Aid Society

Rescue shelter rehabilitation adoption - 100% by volunteers

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4
Victoria Humane Society

The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…

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5
Save Animals Through Rescue and Adoption (S.a.R.a.)

Sara society rescues distressed animals provides them with medical treatement as needed and adopts them to good permanent homes whenever possible.

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6
Save Old Souls Senior K-9 Rescue Society

Pet rescue and adoptions Animals are all checked by veterinarians and are then fostered homes until permanent homes are found for them.

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7
Victoria County Animal Shelter Inc.

Care shelter and adoption of abandoned and surrendered family pets. Community programs: Trap Neuter Release(TNR); Prevent Another Litter (PAL); Spay Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) Fostering

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8
Valley Cat Animal Sanctuary

1. shelter sick injured and homeless animals and provide care and veterinary assistance if required. 2. spay/neuter cats to control pet overpopulation 3. provide appropriate healthcare and vaccinations to reduce health risks to the…

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9
Embrace a Discarded Animal Society

Rescue dogs and cats from overcrowded shelters.

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10
Cats Alive Society

Provide care (including veterinary care) to cats in need. -place stray and feral for adoption

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11
We're All Animal Guardians Society

Shelter for cats spay neuter feral cats adopt cats treat disease & vacanate cats

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12
Alley Cats Rescue Society

Feral cat sanctuary adoption of homeless cats vet cate for felines.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Regional Animal Protection Society and the most unlike its peers is Schara Tzedeck Cemetery Board. 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

15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOPE FOR THE NATIONS — C$138,520 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA INC. — C$70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$32,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSEVA CANADA SOCIETY — C$32,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTURTLE VALLEY DONKEY REFUGE SOCIETY — C$26,355 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCHARA TZEDECK CEMETARY BOARD — C$4,850 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSaintsrescue.ca — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BEAGLE ALLIANCE — C$2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCanadian Animal Rescue & Extended Shelter Society — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlleycats Alliance Society — C$1,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetActions for Animals In Distress Society — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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 British Co…Bc Government Employe…Telus Employees Chari…Nicola Wealth Private…Raymond James Canada …Vancity Community Fou…Aqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationPetsmart Charities of…BenefAction FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Private Giving Founda…
United Way British ColumbiaBC11.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Petsmart Charities of Canada - Charités Petsmart du Canada · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Private Giving 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 15 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 805832318:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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