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Bc Parks Foundation

1 cultivate and protect parks and protected areas ('conservation areas') within british columbia and to promote public engagement and involvement in conservation areas by receiving gifts funds and property to invest and administer and by distributing funds and property to 'qualified donees' (as defined in the income tax act) 2.…

C$485k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$181k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k19 grants · C$89k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$215k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$181k
C$7,600
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$402M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KATZIE CULTURAL EDUCATION SOCIETYC$180,879
PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$40,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$35,000
HABITAT CONSERVATION TRUST FOUNDATIONC$35,000
M.O.S.A.I.C. MULTI-LINGUAL ORIENTATION SERVICE ASSOCIATION FC$19,600
HOPE MOUNTAIN CENTRE FOR OUTDOOR LEARNING SOCIETYC$16,000
COLOUR THE TRAILS ADVOCACY INCC$15,000
KAMLOOPS-CARIBOO REGIONAL IMMIGRANTS SOCIETYC$13,000
YOUNG NATURALISTS' CLUB OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETYC$11,150
Individual grant recipientC$10,000
GATHERING VOICES SOCIETYC$10,000
PACIFIC IMMIGRANT RESOURCES SOCIETYC$10,000
BIRDS CANADAC$9,800
KTUNAXA NATION COUNCIL SOCIETYC$8,375
Individual grant recipientC$8,000
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$403k · 7 repeat orgsC$790k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

C$403k
C$434k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+53%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$356k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • HC
    HABITAT CONSERVATION TRUST FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$66k · revenue +16%
  • YN
    YOUNG NATURALISTS' CLUB OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$31k · revenue +38%
  • MM
    M.O.S.A.I.C. MULTI-LINGUAL ORIENTATION SERVICE ASSOCIATION F
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$29k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$240k
  • DU
    DUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA - CANARDS ILLIMITES CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$130k
  • SI
    SOUTHERN INTERIOR LAND TRUST SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +98%

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
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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2
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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3
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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4
Peninsula Streams Society

The purposes of the society are to organize and participate in environmental projects and programs on the saanich peninsula and surrounding areas that will: monitor preserve and restore flora and fauna. monitor preserve and restore rivers…

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5
Fraser Valley Watersheds Coalition

We organize and participate in environmental projects designed to improve and restore watersheds in the Fraser Valley. These projects include stream and streamside restoration invasive species management tree planting stream mapping…

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6
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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7
North Saanich Parks Ecosystem Restoration Society

Removal of invasive species from selected parks and trails and ecosystems restoration consulting for in-school programs introductory talks to youth groups presenations to community clubs and service groups volunteer member education

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8
Squamish Environmental Conservation Society

Discovery Walks: provides guided nature walks at locations in the Squamish Valley suspended since March 2020 because of COVID-19 and now under review. EagleWatch: monitors Bald Eagle population wintering in the Squamish Valley since 1995.…

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9
Friends of Cortes Island Society

We carry out ecological monitoring restoration and education programs on cortes island. this includes lake stream marine and wetland stewardship programs involving research monitoring and habitat restoration. we also manage and maintain…

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10
The Nature Trust of British Columbia

The Nature Trust of British Columbia acquires land through purchase and donation for the purpose of conserving natural habitat. The Trust also actively manages the land through habitat restoration and conservation projects. Much of our…

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11
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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12
West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society

Student outreach salmon surveys stream monitoring storm drain marking habitat restoration & rehab operation of a hatchery and annual fry releases ... science public education. instream projects in some years.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Mountain Centre for Outdoor Learning Society and the most unlike its peers is Island Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre Association. 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

27 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. 27 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
8/27
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 budgetHABITAT CONSERVATION TRUST FOUNDATION — C$65,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG NATURALISTS' CLUB OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY — C$31,150 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetM.O.S.A.I.C. MULTI-LINGUAL ORIENTATION SERVICE ASSOCIATION F — C$28,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN INTERIOR LAND TRUST SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE MOUNTAIN CENTRE FOR OUTDOOR LEARNING SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKAMLOOPS-CARIBOO REGIONAL IMMIGRANTS SOCIETY — C$13,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDRESEARCH SOCIETY — C$11,470 over 2y, 11% of budgetEYA ENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGATHERING VOICES SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSTANLEY PARK ECOLOGY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBIRDS CANADA — C$9,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBC MARINE TRAILS NETWORK ASSOCIATION — C$7,840 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHWEST WILDLIFE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — C$5,600 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE STARFISH ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSQUAMISH RIVER WATERSHED SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFEDERATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA NATRUALISTS — C$4,900 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CENTRE — C$1,365 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSURFRIDER FOUNDATION CANADA CHAPTERS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — C$500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 40 (NEW WESTMINSTER) — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 23 (CENTRAL OK — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCOPHONE EDUCATION AUTHORITIES (CONSEIL SCOLAIRE FRANCOPH — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Td Friends of the Env…The Sitka FoundationVancouver FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…Vancity Community Fou…First West FoundationBc Government Employe…United Way British Co…The McLean FoundationPacific Salmon Founda…Nature Canada / Canad…TELUS Friendly Future…
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON12.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · First West Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way British Columbia · The McLean Foundation · Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifique · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur

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 40 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 731307492:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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