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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Cottonwood Charitable Foundation

The foundation issues grants to qualified donees and for educational scholarships

C$10k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$72k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST COAST LEAF ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$298k · 5 repeat orgsC$75k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

C$298k
C$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+240%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • BS
    BIG SISTERS OF B.C. LOWER MAINLAND
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$128k · revenue +67%
  • IC
    IMAGINE CANADA
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$55k · revenue +93%
  • MF
    MINERVA FOUNDATION FOR BC WOMEN
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$50k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • RW
    RISE WOMEN'S LEGAL CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +400%
  • TC
    THE CIRCLE ON PHILANTHROPHY AND ABORIGINAL PEOPLES IN CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k · revenue +240%
  • HH
    HONOUR HOUSE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +94%

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
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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2
Health Justice Society

Health Justice uses research education and advocacy to improve the laws and policies that govern coercive mental health and substance use-related health care in BC. Our current priority is to better support human rights and well-being in…

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3
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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4
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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5
Healthy Youth Network

What's your path - helping young people refine their skills passions & interests in order to develop a path for the future based on their priorities and goals. ally program - this youth-led ally program that creates systemic change is…

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6
Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch

1) mental health program development & delivery-we help build mental health skills and resilience for individuals. this includes parent support employment services crisis lines youth programs and support groups. 2) mental health education…

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7
Ending Violence Association of British Columbia

We provide support and training to almost 300 anti-violence programs across BC that respond to sexual and intimate partner violence child abuse and criminal harassment. We work to increase the coordination of services for survivors in the…

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8
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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9
Dress for Success Vancouver Society

Dress for Success Vancouver empowers women into good jobs financial independence and personal success. We opened our doors 25 years ago with a mission to empower women into the workforce by helping them make a great first impression…

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10
Cascade Institute Research Society

Using advanced methods to map and model complex global systems we analyze interactions between systemic risks to anticipate future crises and identify opportunities for high-leverage interventions in social systems. By acting as a network…

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11
United Way British Columbia

Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province. We support healthy caring and inclusive communities by strengthening vital connections to help ensure the health…

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12
One Girl Can Society

One Girl Can gives some of the world’s most vulnerable high-potential girls a chance to rise above extreme poverty and gender inequality. Through education training and mentoring girls are empowered to achieve their goals earn a meaningful…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Women's Legal Centre and the most unlike its peers is The Circle on Philanthropy. 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

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIG SISTERS OF B.C. LOWER MAINLAND — C$127,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetIMAGINE CANADA — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMINERVA FOUNDATION FOR BC WOMEN — C$50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWEST COAST LEAF ASSOCIATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRISE WOMEN'S LEGAL CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CIRCLE ON PHILANTHROPHY AND ABORIGINAL PEOPLES IN CANADA — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHONOUR HOUSE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTAKE A HIKE YOUTH AT RISK FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$10,000 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.

Vancity Community Fou…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…BenefAction FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way East Ontar…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Vancity Community FoundationBC8.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.

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 10 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 2023-11-03, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 835704297:2023-11-03 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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