Nanaimo, BC · Charitable organization
Connective Support Society Nanaimo
The society continues to operate programs to promote the well being of people their spouses child dependants and victims within the judical and penal systems in the province of british columbia more specifically to the mid-vancouver island area.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k8 grants · C$16k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$37k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTIVE SUPPORT SOCIETY - BC/YUKON | C$70,533 |
| NANAIMO FAMILY LIFE ASSOCIATION | C$70,000 |
| VANCOUVER ISLAND MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY | C$37,000 |
| PACIFICA HOUSING ADVISORY ASSOCIATION | C$5,776 |
| M'AKOLA HOUSING SOCIETY | C$3,190 |
| BALLENAS HOUSING SOCIETY | C$2,757 |
| VANCOUVER ISLAND CRISIS SOCIETY | C$1,400 |
| HAVEN FOUNDATION | C$1,200 |
| CRISIS INTERVENTION & SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTRE | C$850 |
| COWICHAN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SOCIETY | C$700 |
| NANAIMO VOLUNTEER AND INFORMATION CENTRE SOCIETY | C$60 |
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.
Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…
Manage and operate the penny lane apartments as a landlord under an operating agreement with BC housing Exploring the possibility of new local housing projects
The society continues to operate programs to promote the well being of people their spouses child dependants and victims within the judical and penal systems in the province of british columbia more specifically to the mid-vancouver island…
Provides care and low cost housing for adults with mental illness.
Advocate for and develop affordable housing opportunities in the columbia valley
Provided subsidized housing to low income individuals with mental illnesses in the chilliwack area.
Affordable individual and group counselling services to residents of Nanaimo and surrounding communities. Awareness and education about mental health and emotional health wellness issues. Development of future mental health practitioners…
The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…
Supportive housing wellness development - social centre and employment program educational workshops homeless outreach and operation of an overdose prevention site.
Residential care homes: in-house support programs; individualized day programs; and support for individuals who contract to support persons with disabilities in the individual's family home. Information referral and advocacy on autism…
Homelessness prevention program homelessness partnering strategy program family violence prevention stop program northern john howard society rental housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Island Mental Health Society and the most unlike its peers is M'akola Housing Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CONNECTIVE SUPPORT SOCIETY - BC/YUKON ↗
- Who funds NANAIMO FAMILY LIFE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER ISLAND MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PACIFICA HOUSING ADVISORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds M'AKOLA HOUSING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BALLENAS HOUSING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER ISLAND CRISIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COWICHAN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NANAIMO VOLUNTEER AND INFORMATION CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society · Nanaimo Community Foundation · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · First West Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · United Way British Columbia · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.