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Whistler, BC · Public foundation

Community Foundation of Whistler

We operate charitable endowments in the whistler region and make grants to eligible organizations engaged in activities such as programs in the areas of environment culture community youth educational scholarships health and social programs and animals.

C$546k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$135k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k15 grants · C$52k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$208k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$286k
C$7,060
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AWARE ASSOCIATION OF WHISTLER AREA RESIDENTS FOR THE ENVC$135,330
SEA TO SKY INVASIVE SPECIES SOCIETYC$89,000
WHISTLER SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETYC$62,040
Individual grant recipientC$45,000
WHISTLER INSTITUTE OF LEARNING SOCIETYC$35,350
WHISTLER COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$28,166
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 48 (SEA TO SKYC$26,950
WHISTLER ARTS COUNCILC$23,965
STEWARDSHIP PEMBERTON SOCIETYC$20,000
PEMBERTON VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATIONC$15,670
ZERO CEILING SOCIETY OF CANADAC$12,730
WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETYC$9,500
WHISTLER ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAMC$7,060
SEA TO SKY HOSPICE SOCIETYC$6,884
WHISTLER AMINALS GALORE SOCIETYC$5,400
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.0M · 35 repeat orgsC$121k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
14

Total granted

C$3.0M
C$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+7%

Still filing today

91%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$51k 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

  • AA
    AWARE ASSOCIATION OF WHISTLER AREA RESIDENTS FOR THE ENV
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$557k · revenue +71% · 39% of their budget
  • ST
    SEA TO SKY INVASIVE SPECIES SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$364k · revenue +104%
  • WS
    WHISTLER SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$346k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · C$22k
  • CR
    Canadian Red Cross
    one grant, 2018 · C$14k · revenue -7%
  • VO
    VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON
    one grant, 2020 · C$12k

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
Whistler Health Care Foundation

Fundraising and grant funding to support healthcare facilities services and equipment that benefit sea to sky residents and visitors.

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2
Westcoast Inland Search and Rescue Society

Ground Search and Rescue operations on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Area of operations includes Hesquiaht to Broken Group Islands and West to Sutton Pass summit.

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3
Squamish Trails Society

Enhance the quality of life in our community by planning constructing and maintaining a public pedestrian and cycling system of trails using off-road routes whenever possible which link all areas in the District of Squamish. Promote public…

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4
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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5
Squamish River Watershed Society

Watershed restoration including restoring fish habitat in the upper rivervine systems and the Squamish estuary. Running educational and outreach programming for students and community. Hosting and holding events (Earth Day Rivers Day).…

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6
Gorge Waterway Action Society

Preserve and enhance the Gorge Waterway in Victoria BC in Lekwungen territory through environmental and climate education restoration conservation stewardship biological monitoring and community involvement.

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7
Kootenay Columbia Trails Society

Establish and maintain a recreational trail network in and around the municipalities of Rossland Trail Warfield Montrose and Fruitvale in British Columbia for self-propelled activities including walking hiking trail running biking and…

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8
The Quamichan Watershed Stewardship Society
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9
Whistler Lakes Conservation Foundation

Purpose of foundation is to raise and distribute funds to promote and practice conservation and environmental protection on whistler lakes.

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10
Wild Pacific Trail Society

Maintenance of the wild pacific trail - an oceanfront public walking trail in ucluelet. b.c. working toward extension of the trail offer educational programs that showcase the unique natural and cultural treasurers of the ucluelet peninsula

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11
Tantalus Wellspring Society

Tantalus Wellspring Society is a Squamish-based Not-for-Profit organization striving to facilitate affordable therapeutic services to individuals couples and families to bridge gaps and remove barriers by: (1) Engaging practitioners to…

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12
Oursquamish Placemaking Society

We provide public amenities such as benches and art that are on public property and accessible to all to improve the public realm in Squamish. We organize community events to activate our public spaces that are free and open to everyone.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Whistler Writing Society and the most unlike its peers is The University of Western Ontario. 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

41 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. 41 of the 52 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)
40/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
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 budgetAWARE ASSOCIATION OF WHISTLER AREA RESIDENTS FOR THE ENV — C$557,071 over 8y, 39% of budgetSEA TO SKY INVASIVE SPECIES SOCIETY — C$363,780 over 7y, 15% of budgetWHISTLER SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY — C$345,934 over 8y, 13% of budgetBOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.48 (SEA TO SKY — C$177,486 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWHISTLER COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIRTY — C$177,178 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetWHISTLER ARTS COUNCIL — C$140,842 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSTEWARDSHIP PEMBERTON SOCIETY — C$132,480 over 8y, 28% of budgetZERO CEILING SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$103,972 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetWHISTLER ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM — C$89,808 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetHOWE SOUND WOMEN'S SHELTER SOCIETY — C$58,058 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWhistler Museum and Archives Society — C$53,588 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY — C$49,054 over 8y, 100% of budgetSPEARHEAD HUTS SOCIETY — C$48,413 over 2y, 12% of budgetWHISTLER INSTITUTE OF LEARNING SOCIETY — C$40,450 over 3y, 27% of budgetWHISTLER WRITING SOCIETY — C$30,395 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetTHE SPOZEZ CULTURAL CENTRE AND COMMUNITY SOCIETY — C$26,755 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWhistler Rotary Club Foundation — C$26,635 over 2y, 31% of budgetPEMBERTON VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION — C$25,562 over 3y, 13% of budgetPEMBERTON CHILD CARE SOCIETY — C$20,787 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSEA TO SKY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$13,764 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$13,585 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of Br..... — C$10,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWhistler Public Library — C$9,244 over 8y, 14% of budgetWHISTLER AMINALS GALORE SOCIETY — C$7,521 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWHISTLER WALDORF SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$5,318 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSQUAMISH VOLUNTEER CENTRE SOCIETY — C$5,315 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWHISTLER CHILDREN'S CENTRE SOCIETY — C$5,080 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEA TO SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$5,070 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF WHISTLER FOUNDATION — C$4,930 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGet Smart Bear Society — C$4,200 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWHISTLER INDEPENDENT SUPPORTED HOUSING SOCIETY — C$3,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetWHISTLER FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY — C$3,120 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Western Ontario — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALLANISH HEALING RETREATS SOCIETY — C$2,908 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWHISTLER 360 HEALTH COLLABORATIVE — C$2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOUTS CANADA - PACIFIC COAST — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEaster Seals House Society — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$1,172 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WHISTLER(ENDOWMENT FUND TFR) — C$400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCOPHONE EDUCATION AUTHORITIES — C$100 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.

Whistler Blackcomb Fo…Whistler Rotary Club …Squamish Community Fo…Whistler Health Care …Nicola Wealth Private…The Rand Alexander Lo…The John C and Sally …Vancouver FoundationThe Hamber FoundationRory and Jane Young F…Jbs Foundation Inc.Moffat Foundation Inc.
Whistler Blackcomb Foundation SocietyBC34.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Society · Whistler Rotary Club Foundation · Squamish Community Foundation · Whistler Health Care Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Rand Alexander Lomas Family Foundation · The John C and Sally Horsfall Eaton Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Rory and Jane Young Foundation · Jbs Foundation Inc. · Moffat Foundation Inc.

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 52 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 871748943:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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