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Victoria, BC · Private foundation

Big Wheel Community Foundation

We continued and expanded the basic living program that funds homeless and poverty afflicted individuals.

C$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$21k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k17 grants · C$89k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$21k
C$5,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEDC$21,000
Wisteria Community AssociationC$9,053
Rainbow KitchenC$9,053
Loaves and FishesC$9,053
Mustard Seed Street ChurchC$8,125
Our Place SocietyC$7,428
Indian Residential School SurvivorsC$6,500
Power To BeC$5,500
Kidsport Greater VictoriaC$5,500
Victoria Youth Empowerment SocietyC$4,500
Greater Victoria Citizens Counselling CenterC$4,190
Comox Valley Transition SocietyC$3,704
The Umbrella SocietyC$3,498
Peninsula Stream Shoreline SocietyC$3,406
Island Prostate CenterC$3,000
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$229k · 11 repeat orgsC$42k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

C$229k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+33%

Still filing today

91%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$23k 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

  • OP
    Our Place Society
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$34k · revenue +4%
  • LA
    Loaves and Fishes
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$30k · revenue +63%
  • WC
    Wisteria Community Association
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$28k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TH
    Threshold Housing Societygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$6k · revenue +60%
  • L
    Lifecycles
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue -47%
  • H
    Herowork
    one grant, 2023 · C$4k · revenue 0%

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
Victoria Community Food Hub Society

The society is a multi-stakeholder society that supports the development of a sustainable local food system on vancouver island. the over-srching goal of the organization is to increase the production of island-grown food while incubating…

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2
Fraser Valley Addictions & Recovery Hub Society

THE CHARITY PROVIDES MEALS FOR SHELTER GUESTS AS WELL AS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR TENANTS. Food Program – We rescue donated food from grocery stores and deliver groceries and household items to clients. Transitional Housing – We provide…

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3
The Victoria Cool Aid Society

The Society offers life-changing services to people who are impacted by poverty colonization stigma and homelessness. These services include permanent housing emergency shelter health and dental care employment assistance and social and…

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4
Victoria Women's Transition House Society

For 50 years Victoria Women's Transition House Society has provided safe shelter counselling education and support for women of all ages with or without children to live free from violence and abuse in intimate relationships. We strive to…

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5
Island Crisis Care Society

The society provides emergency shelter food and referrals for counseling and other services at multiple facilities in the mid-vancouver island region. supportive and transitional housing: samaritan place newcastle place orca place and…

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6
The Anawim Companions Society

The Anawim Companions Society supports individuals facing physical emotional spiritual and social poverty with compassion empowerment and respect. We offer help care and counsel to persons in a way that requires sober living personal…

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7
Pacifica Treatment Centre Society

Rehabilitation programs - the society owns and operates the residence and designs rehabilitation programs to help promote recovery from substance dependence.

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8
Vancouver Island Mental Health Society

Gateway house- a 10 bed fully staffed and licenced facility. it offers a therapeautic integrative and empowering life skills program. kc house brewster house and bob currie place provide smi-independent living housing and programs boundary…

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9
The John Howard Society of Victoria

Employment programs diversion programs halfway house prison services youth mentoring programs volunteer programs garden project transitional housing. work is carried in prisons and in the community.

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10
Greater Victoria Women's Shelter Society
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11
Vancouver Food Runners Society

At vancouver food runners our mission is to respond to the unfortunate disconnect between the fact that over 40% of all food produced is wasted or lost while one in nine household in british columbia are food insecure. oue aim is to…

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12
Phs Community Services Society

Phs community services society provides housing healthcare and harm reduction for some of the most vulnerable and at risk individuals in vancouver and victoria. our ongoing programs include: a low barrier credit union a community dental…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Place Society and the most unlike its peers is Wisteria Community 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

21 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. 21 of the 23 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
9/21
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOur Place Society — C$33,928 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLoaves and Fishes — C$30,303 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWisteria Community Association — C$28,403 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetFED — C$26,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Street Church — C$25,625 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIndian Residential School Survivors Society — C$17,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPower to BE — C$16,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRainbow Kitchen — C$15,053 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVictoria Hospice Society — C$11,212 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPeninsula Stream Shoreline Society — C$6,906 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThreshold Housing Society — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLifecycles — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVictoria Youth Empowerment Society — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Victoria Citizens Counselling Center — C$4,190 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHerowork — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetComox Valley Transition Society — C$3,704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Umbrella Society — C$3,498 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIsland Prostate Center — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPeers Outreach — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRewired Recovery Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetComox Valley Food Bank — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Victoria Foundati…First West FoundationBc Government Employe…Anglican Synod of the…United Way Southern V…Sovereign Order of St…TELUS Friendly Future…Rotary Club of Victor…Vancity Community Fou…Urban Systems Foundat…Centra Cares Foundati…University of Victoria
The Victoria FoundationBC16.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · First West Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Rotary Club of Victoria - Harbourside Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Urban Systems Foundation · Centra Cares Foundation · University of Victoria

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 23 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 organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 735037285:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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