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Langley, BC · Private foundation

First West Foundation

The foundation is a grant-making organization funding charities throughout british columbia for a variety of causes

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
126
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 126 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k76 grants · C$181k
  • C$10k–50k50 grants · C$860k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$45,000
ENDERBY & DISTRICT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE SOCIETYC$36,074
OKANAGAN FRUIT TREE PROJECT SOCIETYC$27,298
STEP FORWARD HEALTH SOCIETYC$25,000
M-2/W-2 ASSOCIATION - RESTORATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESC$25,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM FOUNDATIONC$25,000
PHOENIX DRUG & ALCOHOL RECOVERY AND EDUCATION SOCIETYC$25,000
PROGRESSIVE INTER-CULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$25,000
DELTA HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$25,000
SHER VANCOUVER LGBTQ FRIENDS SOCIETYC$25,000
LANGLEY MEALS ON WHEELS SERVICES SOCIETYC$25,000
SURREY-NORTH DELTA MEALS ON WHEELSC$25,000
EMOTIONS HEALTH AND WELLNESS SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$25,000
THE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATIONC$25,000
FOOD FOR THE SOUL PROJECT SOCIETYC$20,107
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.3M · 256 repeat orgsC$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

256 repeat relationships — 105 still active in FY2024, 151 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

256
645

Total granted

C$6.3M
C$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+23%

Still filing today

98%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$153k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • ED
    ENDERBY & DISTRICT COMMUNITY RESOURSE CENTRE SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$230k · revenue +8% · 33% of their budget
  • TA
    TAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$142k · revenue +187%
  • YO
    YMCA OF OKANAGAN ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$132k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • WC
    Whitevalley Community Resource Centre
    one grant, 2017 · C$58k
  • RC
    Reach Child and Youth Development Society
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k
  • PD
    Penticton & District Community Resources Society
    one grant, 2017 · C$44k

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.

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British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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2
Sea to Sky Community Services Society

The Society offers more then 42 programs in the Sea to Sky Corridor supported by various funding sources including individual donors foundations and government partners. Adult and Family Services provides clinical and therapeutic care for…

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3
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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4
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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5
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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6
Comox Bay Care Society

Improving access to healthcare and related services through relationship building with individuals who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness in the comox valley.

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7
Sooke Family Resource Society

Sooke Family Resource Society offers a variety of programs and services for children youth adults and families. These include family support parenting education childcare resource and referral licensed preschool prenatal education and…

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8
Comox Valley Family Services Association

The Association provides healthy support for children and families family development support and therapeutic counselling. The support and counselling is for individuals and in group environments.

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9
Nutritionlink Services Society

Nutritionlink services society (nls) promotes and enhances eating choices for people and communities in british columbia. nls works in collaboration with others to enhance individuals' ability to make healthy food choices. nls supports the…

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10
Homelessness Services Association of Bc

The society provides support to and enhance the capacity of organizations in bc that serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness. the society provides training to front line shelter workers throughout the province. there are…

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11
Volunteer Comox Valley Society

Volunteer Comox Valley - Education awareness of volunteer opportunities

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12
Victoria Community Food Hub Society

The society is a multi-stakeholder society that supports the development of a sustainable local food system on vancouver island. the over-srching goal of the organization is to increase the production of island-grown food while incubating…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association and the most unlike its peers is Her International Foundation. 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

781 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. 781 of the 920 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)
268
Early backer (in before they grew)
763/781
Grantees still filing
583/781
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetENDERBY & DISTRICT COMMUNITY RESOURSE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$229,564 over 6y, 33% of budgetTAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$141,825 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetYMCA OF OKANAGAN ASSOCIATION — C$131,725 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetANN DAVIS TRANSITION SOCIETY — C$103,350 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLANGLEY MEALS ON WHEELS SERVICES — C$97,700 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetPHOENIX DRUG & ALCOHOL RECOVERY AND EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOKANAGAN FRUIT TREE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$92,373 over 6y, 29% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCATION — C$90,025 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF B.C. LOWER MAINLAND — C$86,307 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetLANGLEY HOSPICE — C$81,475 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetLangley Care Society — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEMOTIONS HEALTH AND WELLNESS SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$77,200 over 5y, 95% of budgetM-2/W-2 ASSOCIATION-RESTORATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTR — C$76,700 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetBURNSIDE GORGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$75,025 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY CARING PLACE — C$74,808 over 6y, 37% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA) — C$74,677 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetKELOWNA COMMUNITY RESOURSES SOCIETY — C$72,925 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetABBOTSFORD HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$70,975 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM FOUNDATION — C$70,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetREACH CHILD AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY — C$70,025 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society — C$70,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetNANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY — C$68,075 over 5y, 25% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING (MADD CANADA) — C$68,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$67,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$65,050 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$64,337 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLADYSMITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS SOCIETY — C$63,525 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA GUIDE DOG SERVICES — C$62,525 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETY — C$61,575 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$60,025 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$59,472 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetARCHWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$54,712 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPENTICTON RECOVERY RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$54,200 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetLANGLEY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$53,650 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSTIGMA-FREE MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY — C$51,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetNANAIMO YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$50,450 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLITERACY ALLIANCE OF THE SHUSWAP SOCIETY — C$46,450 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetCARE FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$44,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBEAYOUTIFUL FOUNDATION — C$43,450 over 2y, 29% of budgetLANGLEY CARE FOUNDATION — C$42,525 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$41,191 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetRidge Meadows Seniors Society — C$40,625 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLaunch Financial Education Society — C$40,450 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$40,175 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH OKANAGAN SIMILKAMEEN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — C$40,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.36(SURREY) — C$40,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$40,025 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

United Way Southern I…United Way Southern V…Sovereign Order of St…Abbotsford Community …Community Foundation …Surreycares Community…Central Okanagan Foun…The Victoria Foundati…Community Foundation …United Way Fraser Val…United Way Central an…The Hamber Foundation
United Way Southern Interior BcBC41.1× affinity62 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Southern Interior Bc · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · Abbotsford Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen · Surreycares Community Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Community Foundation of the North Okanagan · United Way Fraser Valley · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · The Hamber 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 920 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 2024-12-31, 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 890734940:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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