Gabriola, BC · Public foundation
Gabriola Island Lions Foundation
The Foundation continues to support charitable organizations on Gabriola Island and national charities that will benefit the Island's residents.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k4 grants · C$12k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gabriola Health Care Foundation | C$10,000 |
| Gabriola Lions Club | C$9,635 |
| Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides | C$1,000 |
| Kids Help Phone | C$1,000 |
| Honour House Society | C$600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 84% of grant dollars (C$51k). The 16% that went abroad (C$10k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 16% of all-years giving (C$10k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +177% since the first grant, against +164% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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
- PFPEOPLE FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY5× · 2018–2023 · C$7k · revenue +200%
- NSNanaimo-Ladysmith Schools Foundation5× · 2017–2023 · C$5k · revenue +233%
- KHKids Help Phone8× · 2017–2024 · C$5k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- GIGABRIOLA ISLAND COMMUNITY HALL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue +400%
- GHGabriola Historical and Museum Societygraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue +164%
- LOLions of Canada Fund for LCIFone grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue 0%
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 Foundation continues to support charitable organizations on Gabriola Island and national charities that will benefit the Island's residents.
Planning building maintaining & promoting hiking trails on galiano island bc. collaborating with like groups in bc
Ecologically-based summer programs for children; prorgams take place on british columbia's gulf islands.
The Howl Experience offers two separate programs: Howl Explorations and Howl High. Howl Explorations - Howl gives its participants an opportunity to explore a variety of locations (Rockies Maritimes and Yukon). Through this program the…
Developing and maintaining a trail network on Gabriola Island encouraging the community to use the trails and encouraging residents to undertake preservation of natural habitat. Education about and removal of invasive species obtaining and…
Breeding raising and training canines for work as guide dogs and service dogs. Providing services to persons with visual impairment children with autism veterans RCMP and first responders with operational stress injuries/PTSD through the…
To hold protect and steward the property on Gabriola Island known as the 'Gabriola Commons' as a public amenity with green spaces hiking trails and public exhibition performances and meeting places for the use and enjoyment of the public…
The purpose of the foundation is to protect the environment for the benefit of the public by operating a community bus service on gabriola island bc.
The gvpf provides funding for programs outside core regional police budgets and it has begun collaborating closely with all police agencies serving these communities local businesses regional non-profit service providers and indigenous…
Physical and Health Education Canada (PHE Canada) champions healthy active kids by working to ensure all children and youth have equitable access to the benefits of quality physical and health education (PHE) programming and healthy…
Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…
1. grants-provided to organizations and major initiatives that focus on removing barriers and creating opportunities for children and youth with disabilities or health challenges. grants include program equipment mental health and bear…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for a Healthy Community On Gabriola Society and the most unlike its peers is Gabriola Island Community Hall Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 Gabriola Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Boys Scouts of Canada Pacific Coast Council ↗
- Who funds Nanaimo-Ladysmith Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kids Help Phone ↗
- Who funds Honour House Society ↗
- Who funds GABRIOLA ISLAND COMMUNITY HALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL GUIDES OF CANADA BC COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides ↗
- Who funds Gabriola Historical and Museum Society ↗
- Who funds Lions of Canada Fund for LCIF ↗
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: Nanaimo Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.