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Victoria, BC · Charitable organization

First Metropolitan United Church

THE CHURCH'S PROGRAMS INCLUDE: CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILY CHOIR & MUSIC HEALTH & WELLNESS SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT & WORSHIP COMMUNITY OUTREACH COMMUNICATIONS PASTORAL CARE HOSPITALITY AND MISSION & SERVICE.

C$111k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
3
Regions reached
C$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$46k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$55k
C$2,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Broad View UnitedC$54,948
United Church of Canada - Mission & ServiceC$33,270
Our PlaceC$12,500
The Mustard Seed Street ChurchC$2,000
Bridges for Women SocietyC$2,000
Together against Poverty Society (TAPS)C$2,000
Beacon Community AssociationC$1,250
Gender Generations Project SocietyC$1,000
Cornerstone Youth SocietyC$1,000
The Extreme Outreach SocietyC$1,000
Avalon Recovery SocietyC$250
Reach One Touch One Ministries CanadaC$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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$428k · 6 repeat orgsC$100k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

C$428k
C$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$64k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • UC
    UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA-VARIOUS CAUSES
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$325k · revenue +22%
  • OP
    Our Place
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$46k · revenue +140%
  • SC
    ST.JOHN'S CHURCH
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$36k · revenue +733%

Funded once

  • IA
    INTER-CULTURAL ASSOICATION OF VICTORIA
    one grant, 2022 · C$27k · revenue +24%
  • BC
    BELLA COOLA PASTORAL CHARGE
    one grant, 2022 · C$4k · revenue -6%
  • UC
    UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC OF SAINT NICHOLAS
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue -32%

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
Covenant House Vancouver

Covenant House Vancouver offers a 24-hour crisis shelter a supported living program street outreach and drop-in service for youth aged at 16-24 who are homeless and at risk of homeless. Covenant House Vancouver supports young people by…

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2
Connective Support Society

Connective is a community-based social services nonprofit operating in BC and the Yukon to create safe healthy and inclusive communities for all. Over the past 90 years we’ve woven a strong social safety net that addresses the needs of all…

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3
The Anawim Companions Society

The Anawim Companions Society supports individuals facing physical emotional spiritual and social poverty with compassion empowerment and respect. We offer help care and counsel to persons in a way that requires sober living personal…

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4
Adult Integrated Mental Health Services Society

Geared access program (gap)-this is an outreach program for individuals with mental illness. the focus is crisis prevention and intervention support counselling addiction advocacy and referral to other needed supports as appropriate.…

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5
Island Crisis Care Society

The society provides emergency shelter food and referrals for counseling and other services at multiple facilities in the mid-vancouver island region. supportive and transitional housing: samaritan place newcastle place orca place and…

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6
Options Community Services Society

Options community services offers programs in surrey delta cloverdale white rock and langley. the society's fraser health crisis line serves the entire fraser health region from tri-cites to boston bar. options provides programs in many…

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7
Boundary Women's Coalition

Boundary Women's Coalition operates a Transition House for women (and their children) who are at risk of or have experienced violence a Second Stage Housing Program for women (and their children) who have left abusive relationships and are…

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8
The Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia

1) Provide accommodation and settlement services for new immigrants and refugees 2) Provide ESL training for new immigrants refugees and students 3) Provide employment assistance and training services to immigrants and refugees 4) Provide…

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9
1UP Victoria Single Parent Resource Centre Society

Core programs provide up to ten free counselling sessions on a one-on-one basis for single parents. Also offered is a suite of life skills courses and workshops parenting skills development courses and parenting support groups. A Peer…

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10
Manna Homeless Society

The society responds to the needs of the homeless and the impoverished in the oceanside british columbia community by distributing free food emergency shelter (tents) and camping gear. we will meet people on their own turf since most lack…

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11
Surrey Women's Centre Society

Offers a range of low barrier drop in resources including crisis court counselling advocacy and health services for individuals who have experienced gender-based violence. Accompaniment to hospital police and court. Specialized co-location…

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12
Avi Health & Community Services Society

Avi provides preventative education and support programs to people living with affected by ans at-rick for hiv hepatitis c and substance use on vancouver island. targeted prevention and support programs are aimed to men who have sex with…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Place Society and the most unlike its peers is Gender Generations Project Society. 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

21 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED CHURCH OF CANADA-VARIOUS CAUSES — C$325,190 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBroad View United — C$54,948 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetOur Place — C$46,064 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST.JOHN'S CHURCH — C$36,333 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetINTER-CULTURAL ASSOICATION OF VICTORIA — C$27,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEACON COMMUNITY ASSOC. — C$12,281 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREACH ONE TOUCH ONE MINISTRIES CANADA — C$6,460 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBELLA COOLA PASTORAL CHARGE — C$4,070 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUKRAINIAN CATHOLIC OF SAINT NICHOLAS — C$2,850 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBridges for Women Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Street Church — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTogether against Poverty Society (TAPS) — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAINBOW REFUGEE SOCIETY — C$1,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVICTORIA COOL AID SOCIETY — C$1,207 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornerstone Youth Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGender Generations Project Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Extreme Outreach Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAvalon Recovery Society — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRIDGE CENTRE FOR THE FAMILY — C$160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$50 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.

The Victoria Foundati…Bc Government Employe…United Way Southern V…First West FoundationThe Sisters of Saint …Anglican Synod of the…Vancity Community Fou…Broad View UnitedSovereign Order of St…United Way British Co…Unitarian Universalis…Raymond James Canada …
The Victoria FoundationBC14.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · First West Foundation · The Sisters of Saint Ann · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Broad View United · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Unitarian Universalist Community of Victoria Society · Raymond James Canada 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 21 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 118919422:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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