Cranbrook, BC · Public foundation
Echoridge Education Foundation
To solicit and receive gifts, bequests, trusts, funds and property and beneficially, of as a trustee or agent, to hold, invest, develop, manage, accumulate and administer funds and property for the purpose of disbursing fundsand property exclusively to registered charities and qualified donees under the provisions of the Income Tax Act.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vancouver General Hospital | C$44,445 |
| Southern Alberta Institute of Technology | C$44,445 |
| Medicine Hat College | C$44,445 |
| College of the Rockies | C$44,445 |
| University of British Columbia | C$44,445 |
| University of Alberta | C$44,445 |
| University of the Fraser Valley | C$44,445 |
| University of Lethbridge | C$44,445 |
| University of Calgary | C$44,445 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$30,000 |
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$297k 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
- UOUniversity of Lethbridge2× · 2017–2018 · C$54k · revenue +7%
- UOUniversity of Calgary2× · 2017–2018 · C$54k · revenue +27%
- UOUniversity of the Fraser Valley2× · 2017–2018 · C$52k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- MHMedicine Hat Collegeone grant, 2018 · C$44k · revenue +10%
- UOUniversity of Albertagraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$44k · revenue ×1,016
- COCollege of the Rockiesone grant, 2018 · C$44k
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 University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.
The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…
The Banff Centre operates under the authority of the Post-Secondary Learning Act (Statutes of Alberta 2003 Chapter P-19.5). The Centre provides the public with the opportunity to access a broad range of learning experiences.
The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…
Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies
Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.
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.
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…
Post-Secondary Education
Instruction and research in a university.
Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…
The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Fraser Valley and the most unlike its peers is Medicine Hat College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 University of Lethbridge ↗
- Who funds University of Calgary ↗
- Who funds University of the Fraser Valley ↗
- Who funds Medicine Hat College ↗
- Who funds University of Alberta ↗
- Who funds University of British Columbia ↗
- Who funds Southern Alberta Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Vancouver General Hospital ↗
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: Enactus Canada · The Calgary Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · 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.