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Fernwood Foundation

The FERNWOOD FOUNDATION is a charitable foundation established for the purpose of disbursing funds and property to qualified donees.

C$144k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$34k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$61k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$15,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$12,500
HUNTSVILLE DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$12,100
LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$11,000
THE FRASER INSTITUTEC$10,000
CANADA HELPS DONATIONC$5,195
PRINCESS MARGARET RIDE TORONTOC$5,100
BIG SISTERS BCLMC$5,000
COAST MENTAL HEALTH FDNC$5,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHOREC$4,000
LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUMC$3,000
TELEFILM CANADAC$2,500
HOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESSC$2,060
SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$1,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$11M · 30 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
34

Total granted

C$11M
C$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+27%

Still filing today

97%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$7.0M · revenue +28%
  • LG
    LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.3M · revenue +53%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$860k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK
    one grant, 2022 · C$1.0M
  • TG
    THE GIUSTRA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$200k
  • RH
    RICK HANSEN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +29%

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
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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3
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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4
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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5
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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6
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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7
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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8
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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9
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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10
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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11
The Victoria Foundation

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…

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12
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is David Goodman Youth Community Trust. 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

61 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. 61 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
47/61
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$7,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,323,800 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$860,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF BC — C$204,750 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetVGH + UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH THEATRE SOCIETY — C$158,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$116,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetRICK HANSEN FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHUNTSVILLE DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$87,600 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$56,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$55,630 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$51,456 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPLUSEC-PLURALISM HUMAN SECURITY SUSTAINABILITY CENTRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHORE — C$41,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$30,002 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRASER INSTITUTE — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$20,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARE OF CANADA FUND — C$17,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER UNITED CHURCH — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFORUM FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESS — C$10,560 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEL JR. & MARTY ZAJAC FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAVID GOODMAN YOUTH COMMUNITY TRUST — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOVARIAN CANCER CANADA — C$9,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SISTERS BCLM — C$6,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANADA HELPS DONATION — C$6,695 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$5,113 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDORSET COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Table Soup Kitchen Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWriters' Trust of Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FDN — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER AQUARIUM CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE BC — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCKWN KIDS FUND — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINNIPEG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$1,000 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.

Zlc FoundationCanada GivesNicola Wealth Private…Conam Charitable Foun…The Giustra FoundationPeter & Joanne Brown …The Joseph Segal Fami…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Aqueduct FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationHumphreys Family Foun…
Zlc FoundationBC13.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Canada Gives · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Giustra Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Humphreys Family 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 67 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 855883583:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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