Victoria, BC · Charitable organization
David Foster Foundation
The David Foster Foundation provides financial support to families with children in need of life-saving organ transplants.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$89k
- C$50k–250k4 grants · C$257k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$423k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Find Your Light Foundation | C$423,060 |
| Baby2Baby | C$69,720 |
| Gateway for Cancer Research | C$69,555 |
| Charlotte & Gwenyth Gray Foundation | C$68,135 |
| Campfire Circle | C$50,000 |
| The Stollery Foundation | C$39,000 |
| The UCLA Foundation-CDMD | C$34,947 |
| Children's Organ Transplant Society | C$15,000 |
| Kidney Foundation of Canada | C$5,000 |
| Camp Kivita | C$5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 30% of grant dollars (C$310k). The 70% that went abroad (C$715k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 70% of all-years giving (C$715k)
2 countries, 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.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kidney Foundation of Canada / La Fondation Canadienne Du Rein and the most unlike its peers is Boston Pizza Foundation. 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 15 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 Victoria Foundation ↗
- Who funds Campfire Circle ↗
- Who funds The Stollery Foundation ↗
- Who funds Camp Kivita Inc. ↗
- Who funds THE KIDNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Canada's Walk of Fame ↗
- Who funds Toronto International Film Festival ↗
- Who funds Children's Organ Transplant Society ↗
- Who funds St. John Society (BC & Yukon) ↗
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: Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.