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Victoria, BC · Private foundation

Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust

Managed the annual fundraising campaign among the provincial government employees for donations and distribution of funds to regional charities throughout Canada mainly the B.C.

C$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,802
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$117k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1802 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1757 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$10k–50k39 grants · C$834k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$426k
C$260
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
British Columbia Society For The Prevention Of CrueC$116,826
British Columbia'S Children'S Hospital FoundationC$75,435
The Mustard Seed Street ChurchC$66,536
Bc Cancer FoundationC$61,922
The Victoria Cool Aid SocietyC$52,695
Victoria Rainbow Kitchen SocietyC$52,276
Victoria Hospice SocietyC$44,648
Child Abuse Prevention And Counselling Society OfC$43,272
Victoria Women'S Transition House SocietyC$42,512
Island Sexual Health SocietyC$39,330
Alzheimer Society Of B.C.C$39,228
Indian Residential School Survivors SocietyC$34,475
The Canadian Red Cross Society La Sociã Tã CanC$32,939
Victoria Humane SocietyC$32,866
Canadian Cancer Society - Sociã Tã CanadienneC$31,002
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$16M
Ontario
C$995k
Alberta
C$67k
Quebec
C$25k
Manitoba
C$19k
Nova Scotia
C$9k
Nunavut
C$5k
Prince Edward Island
C$2k
New Brunswick
C$1k
Saskatchewan
C$570
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$268

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$17M · 1485 repeat orgsC$235k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

1485 repeat relationships — 1173 still active in FY2024, 312 since wound down; 394 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1485
121

Total granted

C$17M
C$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+20%

Still filing today

95%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$114k 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

  • FS
    Fort St John Literacy Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +82%
  • BC
    BC Children's Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$551k · revenue +38%
  • MS
    Mustard Seed Street Church
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$547k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CR
    Canadian Red Cross Society
    one grant, 2017 · C$38k
  • GV
    GREATER VICTORIA VOLUNTEER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k
  • SC
    Spinal Cord Injury BC
    one grant, 2017 · C$13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your field
03the grantee network

1961 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. 1961 of the 2,000 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.

30
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
612
Early backer (in before they grew)
1875/1961
Grantees still filing
1171/1961
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFort St John Literacy Society — C$1,040,336 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$550,517 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMustard Seed Street Church — C$546,682 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetBc Cancer Foundation — C$414,693 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA COOL AID SOCIETY — C$362,216 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVictoria Women's Transition house Soc — C$356,114 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetKnox Presbyterian Church — C$328,329 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$290,054 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jim Pattison Foundation — C$286,551 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetCanadian Red Cross Society — C$278,679 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE (VSAC) — C$278,467 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetOur Place Society — C$236,528 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAlzheimer Society Of B.C. — C$226,221 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetIsland Sexual Health Society — C$198,062 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetVictoria Hospice Society — C$194,356 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetVictoria Humane Society — C$163,758 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetQuesnel Tillicum Society — C$145,555 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVictoria Rainbow Kitchen Society — C$145,216 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Victoria — C$136,284 over 8y, 28% of budgetNelson United Church — C$136,265 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Victoria Volunteer Society — C$126,115 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetMuslim Food Bank & Community Services — C$124,685 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHRESHOLD HOUSING SOCIETY — C$123,711 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetBC Guide Dog Services — C$119,864 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$114,462 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVictoria Hospice & Palliative Care Fdn — C$108,727 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetIndigenous Women's Fund of Canada — C$108,293 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSalvation Army Nanaimo — C$107,365 over 7y, 17% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA (BC AND YUKON) — C$107,349 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMustard Seed Street Church — C$105,809 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetIsland Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Centre Association — C$104,309 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSURROUNDED BY CEDAR CHILD & FAMILY — C$101,259 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Victoria Eldercare Foundation — C$94,293 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetBig Sisters of BC Lower Mainland — C$89,804 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetHeroWork Program Society — C$87,281 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetBroken Promises Rescue Society — C$82,194 over 8y, 10.0% of budgetVictoria Literacy Connection — C$80,194 over 7y, 13% of budgetLEARNING THROUGH LOSS — C$80,115 over 8y, 28% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Assn — C$78,998 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission — C$76,886 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCat'S Cradle Animal Rescue — C$75,491 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetVictoria Native Friendship Centre — C$71,757 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetST ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL — C$69,193 over 8y, 26% of budgetUnited Way of the Lower Mainland — C$68,279 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetExtreme Outreach Society — C$66,972 over 8y, 22% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$65,778 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$64,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVictorian Hospitals Foundation — C$62,739 over 7y, 0.2% 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 Fort St John Literacy Society ↗
  • Who funds BC Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Mustard Seed Street Church ↗
  • Who funds Bc Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA COOL AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Women's Transition house Soc ↗
  • Who funds Knox Presbyterian Church ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Cancer Society ↗
  • Who funds The Jim Pattison Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Red Cross Society ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE (VSAC) ↗
  • Who funds Heart & Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon ↗
  • Who funds Our Place Society ↗
  • Who funds Alzheimer Society Of B.C. ↗
  • Who funds Island Sexual Health Society ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Hospice Society ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds Quesnel Tillicum Society ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Rainbow Kitchen Society ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Greater Victoria ↗
  • Who funds Nelson United Church ↗
  • Who funds Greater Victoria Volunteer Society ↗
  • Who funds Muslim Food Bank & Community Services ↗
  • Who funds THRESHOLD HOUSING SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BC Guide Dog Services ↗
  • Who funds Covenant House Vancouver ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Hospice & Palliative Care Fdn ↗
  • Who funds Indigenous Women's Fund of Canada ↗
  • Who funds Salvation Army Nanaimo ↗
  • Who funds MS SOCIETY OF CANADA (BC AND YUKON) ↗
  • Who funds Mustard Seed Street Church ↗
  • Who funds Island Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Centre Association ↗
  • Who funds SURROUNDED BY CEDAR CHILD & FAMILY ↗
  • Who funds Greater Victoria Eldercare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland ↗
  • Who funds HeroWork Program Society ↗
  • Who funds Broken Promises Rescue Society ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Literacy Connection ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING THROUGH LOSS ↗

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 Southern Vancouver IslandBC28.1× affinity117 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · First West Foundation · Rotary Club of Victoria - Harbourside Foundation · Unitarian Universalist Community of Victoria Society · The Victoria Foundation · Wcb Helping Hands · The Sisters of Saint Ann · Cknw Kids' Fund · Centra Cares Foundation · Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island

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 2000 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 889407466:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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