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Nanaimo, BC · Charitable organization

First Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo

Conduct weekly religious services including children's religious exploration program.

C$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$521
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$427
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$672k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NANAIMO YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATIONC$521
CONNECTIVE SUPPORT SOCIETYC$427
CANADIAN COASTAL RESEARCHC$253
02Your 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.

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Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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2
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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3
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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4
Pacific Wild Alliance

1. save bc wolves - our goal is to ensure that wolves have adequate habitat to continue their critical role as a keystone species. 2. protect pacific herring - we are working with central coast communities to highlight the importance of…

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5
Ine Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research Association

Energy economics in bc research project prosperous transition project indigenous economics systems project

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6
Vancouver Island Integrated Counselling and Community Services Society

Affordable individual and group counselling services to residents of Nanaimo and surrounding communities. Awareness and education about mental health and emotional health wellness issues. Development of future mental health practitioners…

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7
Georgia Strait Alliance

Public Engagement – increasing the understanding of the importance of the health of Georgia Strait as a regional ecosystem and providing individuals and communities with the tools to take local and regional action to improve the health of…

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8
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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9
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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10
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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11
Watershed Watch Salmon Society

Engage with the public on salmon conservation salmon habitat protection and watershed health through our website social media outreach events and public presentations; Provide technical support scientific advice and communications support…

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12
Cedar Coast Field Station Society

Ongoing - research into juvenile salmon monitoring chum salmon enumeration undertaken by marine biologists and students. Ongoing - educational programs for children and youth into the marine-life and wildlife in the Clayoquot Sound.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connective Support Society Nanaimo and the most unlike its peers is Forest and the Femme 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

17 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. 17 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
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 budgetMARINE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$1,928 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCanadian Unitarian Council — C$1,094 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetForest and the Femme — C$1,011 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES — C$980 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeva Canada Society — C$952 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$832 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNanaimo Food Share — C$796 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLoaves and Fishes — C$749 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$665 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOJUSTICE CANADA — C$538 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANAIMO YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD HAVEN INT'L — C$480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIVE SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$427 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN COASTAL RESEARCH — C$253 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION MID ISLAND BRANCH — C$167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND CRISIS CARE SOCIETY — C$100 over 2y, 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.

Bc Government Employe…United Way British Co…The Victoria Foundati…United Way Central an…Vancouver FoundationFirst West FoundationLoaves and Fishes Com…Nanaimo Community Fou…Youth and Philanthrop…The Board of Educatio…The Calgary FoundationAnglican Synod of the…
Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund TrustBC12× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way British Columbia · The Victoria Foundation · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · Vancouver Foundation · First West Foundation · Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society · Nanaimo Community Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · The Board of Education of School District No. 68 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith) · The Calgary Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia

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 19 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 830236949:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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