Victoria, BC · Private foundation
Cote Family Memorial Foundation
1) Shelter and feed street persons (Anawim Covenant House Vancouver Our Place SVDP Development & Peace) 2) Provide shelter food and training to youth in India and Nepal (Children Believe - formerly Christian Children) Can.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saint Vincent de Paul Society | C$2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$800 |
| Children Believe | C$528 |
| Our Place Society of Victoria | C$400 |
| Victoria Hospice Society | C$300 |
| Canadian Jesuit Missions (SOJASI) | C$300 |
| Victoria Women s Transition House Society | C$250 |
| Backpack Buddies | C$200 |
| Development and Peace | C$200 |
| Shekinah Homes (L Arche) Victoria | C$200 |
| Victoria Women s Sexual Assault Centre | C$200 |
| Farm Radio International | C$200 |
| Indian Residential School Survivors Society | C$200 |
| Covenant House (Vancouver) | C$200 |
| Esk-Omi Mission | C$200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 76% of grant dollars (C$27k). The 24% that went abroad (C$9k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 24% of all-years giving (C$9k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$200 went to new ones.
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
- SVSaint Vincent de Paul Society8× · 2017–2024 · C$6k · revenue +51%
- VWVictoria Women s Transition House Society8× · 2017–2024 · C$2k · revenue +126%
- FRFarm Radio International8× · 2017–2024 · C$1k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · C$600
- OPOur Place Society of Victoriaone grant, 2023 · C$375 · revenue +3%
- OPOur Place Victoriaone grant, 2021 · C$375
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…
The society provides emergency shelter food and referrals for counseling and other services at multiple facilities in the mid-vancouver island region. supportive and transitional housing: samaritan place newcastle place orca place and…
The society is a multi-stakeholder society that supports the development of a sustainable local food system on vancouver island. the over-srching goal of the organization is to increase the production of island-grown food while incubating…
The charity promoted and developed community living arrangements that enable those who live with challenging needs to actualize their personal values and enjoy a consistent lifestyle. the charity operates two residences in victoria to…
Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…
Covenant House Vancouver offers a 24-hour crisis shelter a supported living program street outreach and drop-in service for youth aged at 16-24 who are homeless and at risk of homeless. Covenant House Vancouver supports young people by…
The society operates programs aimed to end violence against women and to act as an educational force for progressive changes in attitudes laws institutional procedures and to work for the prevention of rape. vancouver rape relief society…
Connective is a community-based social services nonprofit operating in BC and the Yukon to create safe healthy and inclusive communities for all. Over the past 90 years we’ve woven a strong social safety net that addresses the needs of all…
Anhart Community Housing Society is a humanitarian organization that provides supportive housing to persons of low income and/or who are at risk to homelessness because of mental and physical health concerns addictions and concurrent…
United way central and northern vancouver island (uwcnvi) creates opportunities for a better life for every person in our communities by tackling pressing social issues. uwcnvi focuses on three impact areas: all that kids can be from…
The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island and the most unlike its peers is Children Believe Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 33 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 Saint Vincent de Paul Society ↗
- Who funds Children Believe ↗
- Who funds Victoria Women s Transition House Society ↗
- Who funds Farm Radio International ↗
- Who funds Anawim Companions ↗
- Who funds Shekinah Homes Victoria ↗
- Who funds Development and Peace ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Poor Clares ↗
- Who funds Indian Residential School Survivors Society ↗
- Who funds Backpack Buddies ↗
- Who funds Our Place Society of Victoria ↗
- Who funds Victoria Cool Aid ↗
- Who funds Victoria Hospital Foundation ↗
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: The Sisters of Saint Ann · The Victoria Foundation · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · The Bishop of Victoria · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Private 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.