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Bowen Island, BC · Public foundation

Bowen Island Community Foundation

The Foundation receives donations and provides grants to qualified donees in support of artistic cultural educational recreational and social well-being of residents on Bowen Island.

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$1000k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k18 grants · C$71k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$152k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$286k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1000k
C$5,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOWEN ISLAND MUNICIPALITYC$999,596
VANCOUVER FOUNDATIONC$171,209
BOWEN ISLAND UNITECH CHURCHC$115,000
SNUG COVE HOUSE SOCIETYC$25,000
BOWEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCILC$21,400
UVICC$20,000
SENIORS KEEPING YOUNG SOCIETYC$20,000
BOWEN CONSERVANCYC$18,980
GOLF CANADAC$17,000
HELPING HANDC$16,672
UBCC$12,500
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$9,500
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$9,000
Individual grant recipientC$8,698
UNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGEC$5,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.5M · 36 repeat orgsC$108k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
22

Total granted

C$3.5M
C$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+19%

Still filing today

86%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$29k 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

  • VF
    Vancouver Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$835k · revenue +471%
  • BI
    Bowen Island Public Library Foundation
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$183k · revenue +187%
  • BC
    Bowen Children's Centre Society
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$149k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • PP
    PACIFIC PARKLANDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue +1%
  • SC
    Synergy Collective Society
    one grant, 2018 · C$7k · revenue -48%
  • CO
    CANADIAN ORGANIZATION OF THE BLIND AND DEAFBLINDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +152%

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
Vancouver Island University

Vancouver island university (viu) is an organization that values a diverse range of training and education. viu offers programs from basic literacy to vocational programs trades undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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2
University of Prince Edward Island

Post-Secondary Education

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3
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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4
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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5
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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6
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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7
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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8
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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9
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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10
University of Vancouver

Quest university canada's board voted to suspend academic operations on april 30 2023. from this date forward the institution no longer offers academic programs as part of its daily operations but will focus on planning and fundraising for…

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11
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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12
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Island University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Capilano University. 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

49 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. 49 of the 63 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVancouver Foundation — C$834,595 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND HEALTH CENTRE — C$197,500 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetBowen Island Public Library Foundation — C$182,777 over 4y, 15% of budgetBowen Children's Centre Society — C$149,390 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND UNITECH CHURCH — C$137,700 over 4y, 41% of budgetUVIC — C$81,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUBC — C$61,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetQueen's University — C$56,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSNUG COVE HOUSE SOCIETY — C$43,700 over 3y, 35% of budgetSENIORS KEEPING YOUNG SOCIETY — C$40,800 over 4y, 66% of budgetIsland Pacific School — C$38,350 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL — C$33,840 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetBOWEN CONSERVANCY — C$29,980 over 2y, 51% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$29,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND MONTESSORI — C$27,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetBowen Island Community School Association — C$26,300 over 3y, 47% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNVERISTY — C$22,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN UNIVERSITY — C$18,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC PARKLANDS FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBowen Island Museum and Archives — C$13,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCAPILANO UNIVERSITY — C$12,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Island University — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBritish Columbia Institute of Technology — C$9,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSynergy Collective Society — C$7,400 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$7,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Of Calgary — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN ORGANIZATION OF THE BLIND AND DEAFBLIND — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND FOOD BANK — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNSCAD — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Canadian Council of the Blind — C$4,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRockridge Secondary Scholarship Fund — C$4,250 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetHURON UNIVERSITY — C$4,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COLLEGE — C$3,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNBC — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIR-NA-NOG THEATRE SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILFRED LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATES HILL CHAPEL — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapilano University — C$2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKWANTIEN UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE — C$1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL ROAD UNIVERSITY — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBowen Island Scouts Group — C$1,000 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.

  • Who funds Vancouver Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOWEN ISLAND HEALTH CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Bowen Island Public Library Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Bowen Children's Centre Society ↗
  • Who funds BOWEN ISLAND UNITECH CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds UVIC ↗
  • Who funds UBC ↗
  • Who funds Queen's University ↗
  • Who funds SNUG COVE HOUSE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SENIORS KEEPING YOUNG SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Island Pacific School ↗
  • Who funds BOWEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds BOWEN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BOWEN ISLAND MONTESSORI ↗
  • Who funds Bowen Island Community School Association ↗
  • Who funds DALHOUSIE UNVERISTY ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC PARKLANDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Bowen Island Museum and Archives ↗
  • Who funds CAPILANO UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Island University ↗
  • Who funds RYERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds British Columbia Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds BOWEN ISLAND HERITAGE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Synergy Collective Society ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University Of Calgary ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN ORGANIZATION OF THE BLIND AND DEAFBLIND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOWEN ISLAND FOOD BANK ↗

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.

Smooth Stones Foundat…Seymour Bay FoundationCredit Union Foundati…Skills for Hope Found…Chartered Professiona…Vancity Community Fou…Y.P.Heung FoundationThe Kpmg Foundation/L…University Womens Clu…Vancouver FoundationNorth Shore Community…United Way British Co…
Smooth Stones FoundationBC13.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Smooth Stones Foundation · Seymour Bay Foundation · Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia · Skills for Hope Foundation · Chartered Professional Accountants' Education Foundation of British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · University Womens Club of Vancouver Trust Fund for Education · Vancouver Foundation · North Shore Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia

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 63 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 883618514:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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