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Victoria, BC · Public foundation

Canadian Rugby Foundation

The foundation was soliciting donations to carry out its main purpose of: fostering encouraging and promoting the game of rugby among both genders within canada through grants bursaries scholarships and awards to qualified donees (as defined by the canada revenue agency) including the canadian rugby union.

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$56k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.1M
C$4,980
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rugby CanadaC$1,144,358
Individual grant recipientC$30,000
University of British ColumbiaC$14,960
University of VictoriaC$10,630
University of GuelphC$6,080
Queen's UniversityC$5,580
Ecole de Technologies SuperieurC$4,980
School District 79C$1,700
School District 70C$1,700
School District 60C$1,700
University of Prince Edward IslandC$500
Acadia UniversityC$500
McGill UniversityC$250
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$3.4M
British Columbia
C$137k
Quebec
C$37k
Alberta
C$21k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$16k
Nova Scotia
C$11k
New Brunswick
C$8k
Prince Edward Island
C$4k

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$3.6M · 18 repeat orgsC$51k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

C$3.6M
C$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$72k · revenue +49%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$47k · revenue +24%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$30k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • WL
    WILIFRED LAURIER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +12%
  • DU
    DALLHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · C$8k · revenue +25%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$8k · revenue +26%

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

04Your 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.

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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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2
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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3
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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4
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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5
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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6
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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7
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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8
The University of Western Ontario

Post secondary research and education

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9
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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10
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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11
Universite Du Quebec

Enseignement et recherche universitaire

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12
Yukon University

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilfrid Laurier University and the most unlike its peers is Esquimalt Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
25/29
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$72,030 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$47,251 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$30,330 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$20,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$18,680 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY — C$15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILIFRED LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 62 — C$9,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDALLHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$8,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERLOO UNIVERSITY — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEcole de Technologies Superieur — C$4,980 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Prince Edward Island — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROCK UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESQUIMALT FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$1,925 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSchool District 79 — C$1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool District 60 — C$1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool District 70 — C$1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversité Laval — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAcadia University — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Western University — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Xavier University — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 71 — C$500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE — 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.

The Art Starts in Sch…The Victoria Foundati…The Leonard FoundationVancouver Sun Childre…Times Colonist Litera…Postmedia Network Fou…Vancouver FoundationUniversity of VictoriaTd Friends of the Env…Indigo Love of Readin…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Strategic Charitable …
The Art Starts in Schools SocietyBC9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Art Starts in Schools Society · The Victoria Foundation · The Leonard Foundation · Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society · Times Colonist Literacy Society · Postmedia Network Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · University of Victoria · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Strategic Charitable Giving 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 31 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 869159186:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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