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Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia

Provision of scholarship bursaries and awards

C$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k32 grants · C$70k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$40k
C$1,800
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITYC$15,000
COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$15,000
PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADAC$10,000
CAMOSUN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$6,500
VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$6,250
NICOLA VALLEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYC$6,000
ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITYC$6,000
TRENT UNIVERSITYC$3,000
SUPPORTING WELLBEING -MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$3,000
JA CENTRAL ONTARIOC$3,000
TORONTO REEL ASIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALC$3,000
AGSCAPEC$3,000
THE MARITIME MUSEUM OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETYC$3,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$2,200
VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$2,100
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$300k · 26 repeat orgsC$52k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
3

Total granted

C$300k
C$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
-13%

Still filing today

96%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$49k 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

  • SM
    Saint Mary's University
    2× · 2017–2024 · C$35k · revenue +20%
  • BC
    British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$24k · revenue +135%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$19k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • LC
    LANGARA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k
  • DC
    DOUGLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k
  • WC
    WEST COAST LEAF
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue -13%

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
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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2
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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3
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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4
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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5
Engineering and Geoscience Education Foundation Bc

Provide scholarships and bursaries to post-secondary students in the study of engineering of geoscience

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6
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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7
Vancouver Island University

Vancouver island university (viu) is an organization that values a diverse range of training and education. viu offers programs from basic literacy to vocational programs trades undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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8
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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9
Fraser Valley Scholarship Foundation

Scholarship and bursary awards to students for post-secondary education

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10
The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia

Scholarships bursaries awards to support education and research in architecture.

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11
University Womens Club of Vancouver Trust Fund for Education

The trust fund for education awards scholarships and bursaries. the trust fund distributes its monies to universities colleges and other institutions in order to help students further their academic studies.

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12
University of Prince Edward Island

Post-Secondary Education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. 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

35 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. 35 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
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 budgetSaint Mary's University — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBritish Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation — C$23,980 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$18,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAMOSUN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$17,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$16,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ROCKIES — C$14,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKwantlen Polytechnic University Foundation — C$13,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY — C$13,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$8,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCollege of New Caledonia — C$8,138 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE INSTITUTE OF B.C. FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSelkirk College Foundation — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND DESIGN FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetOkanagan College Foundation — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH ISLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION TRUST FUND — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Northern British Columbia — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetLangara College Foundation — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDouglas College Foundation — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNICOLA VALLEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$4,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARITIME MUSEUM OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUPPORTING WELLBEING -MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJA CENTRAL ONTARIO — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGSCAPE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO REEL ASIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPrincess Margaret Secondary School — C$2,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWEST COAST LEAF — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Saint Mary's University ↗
  • Who funds British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds CAMOSUN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds Kwantlen Polytechnic University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds College of New Caledonia ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE INSTITUTE OF B.C. FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Selkirk College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND DESIGN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Okanagan College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTH ISLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION TRUST FUND ↗
  • Who funds COAST MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Northern British Columbia ↗
  • Who funds Langara College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Douglas College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NICOLA VALLEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds THE MARITIME MUSEUM OF BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SUPPORTING WELLBEING -MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TRENT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JA CENTRAL ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds AGSCAPE ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO REEL ASIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds Princess Margaret Secondary School ↗
  • Who funds WEST COAST LEAF ↗

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…Central Okanagan Burs…University of VictoriaChartered Professiona…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…Bowen Island Communit…The Kpmg Foundation/L…Asttbc FoundationSkills for Hope Found…Central Okanagan Foun…The Ed Coates Memoria…
Vancity Community FoundationBC16.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society · University of Victoria · Chartered Professional Accountants' Education Foundation of British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Bowen Island Community Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Asttbc Foundation · Skills for Hope Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · The Ed Coates Memorial 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 38 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 advancing education.

Source object 118879030:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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