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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

British Columbia Courthouse Library Society

Operated 29 courthouse libraries in bc including collection development and maintenance reference assistance and provision of library services to the public and legal community.

C$3k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FERNIE PUBLIC LIBRARYC$2,500
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$305k · 66 repeat orgsC$21k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

66 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2020, 65 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
15

Total granted

C$305k
C$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+11%

Still filing today

92%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
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

  • OR
    OKANAGAN REGIONAL LIBRARY DISTRICT
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$20k · revenue +26%
  • VI
    VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$16k · revenue ×553
  • VP
    VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$15k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • NV
    NORTH VANCOUVER CITY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k
  • TR
    TUMBLER RIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +11%
  • MR
    MAYNE READING CENTER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue -8%

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
Penhold & District Public Library

Penhold & district library loans resources to the public that are for lifelong learning and leisure. we provide programs for children teens adults and seniors

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2
Prairie Crocus Regional Library

Provide library services

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3
Russell and District Regional Library

Provide books and audio/visual materials to people of all ages as well as computer and internet access. book sharing with other libraries available.

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4
Lincoln Public Library

Circulation of library materials; programs for all ages; public internet access - including wifi; online services and streaming; non-traditional items for loan

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5
Grande Prairie Public Library

Provide public library service to the city of grande prairie and region.

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6
Oakville Public Library Board

Library services

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7
The Ponoka Jubilee Library Board

Library programming and services

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8
Essex County Library

Public library

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9
Lakedell Area Community Library Society

Library services include the lending of books and other materials ( in both print and electronic format) public use of 4 computers wireless internet access and various special programs and clubs for all ages.

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10
Hanna Municipal Library

Library

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11
Chipman Public Library

Library programs

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12
The Rocky Mountain House Library Board

Library

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pemberton & District Public Library and the most unlike its peers is Robson Valley Arts and Culture Council. 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

65 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. 65 of the 81 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
58/65
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOKANAGAN REGIONAL LIBRARY DISTRICT — C$20,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY — C$15,600 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Vancouver District Public Library — C$14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRASER VALLEY REGIONAL LIBRARY — C$11,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$9,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VICTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD — C$9,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMPSON-NICOLA REGIONAL DISTRICT LIBRARY SYSTEM — C$8,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$6,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD — C$6,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOQUITLAM PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD — C$5,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMcBride Public Library Association — C$5,625 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCRESTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$5,470 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBURNABY PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$5,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFERNIE PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTERRACE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$4,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFORT ST. JOHN PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$4,900 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPENTICTON PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$4,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCRANBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$4,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDAWSON CREEK MUNICIPAL PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$3,900 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPRINCE RUPERT LIBRARY — C$3,860 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPOWELL RIVER PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$3,680 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLILLOOET AREA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$3,080 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHETWYND PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$3,080 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHAZLETON DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$3,010 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDISTRICT OF SQUAMISH MUNICIPAL LIBRARY — C$2,950 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,950 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSECHELT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKIMBERLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$2,950 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVANDERHOOF PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,950 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFORT NELSON PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,950 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCASTLEGAR AND DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,950 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKITIMAT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,950 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRAIL & DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$2,950 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWHISTLER PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$2,950 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE INVERMERE PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$2,950 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE SPARWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,950 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF SMITHER LIBRARY — C$2,950 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPENDER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,940 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetELKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,940 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetROBSON VALLEY ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL — C$2,925 over 3y, 20% of budgetKASLO & DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,925 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWOOD AND DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCATION — C$2,925 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetHOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,925 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPEMBERTON & DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,925 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMACKENZIE PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$2,925 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND FORKS PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$2,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRASER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$2,800 over 2y, 1.8% 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 of Norther…Bc Government Employe…Times Colonist Litera…Postmedia Network Fou…Decoda Literacy Found…The Western Communiti…The Prince George Com…Vancouver FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…United Way British Co…Community Foundations…Aqueduct Foundation
United Way of Northern British ColumbiaBC15.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Northern British Columbia · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Times Colonist Literacy Society · Postmedia Network Foundation · Decoda Literacy Foundation · The Western Communities Foundation · The Prince George Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Community Foundations of Canada · Aqueduct 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 81 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 2020-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2020. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under public amenities.

Source object 106777873:2020-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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