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Edmonton, AB · Private foundation

Hummingbird Foundation

Purpose of the Foundation is to provide support for other charities - primary areas for support are the arts & nature related charities.

C$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,470,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Aqueduct FoundationC$2,470,000
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.4M · 12 repeat orgsC$2.5M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

C$4.4M
C$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+86%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.5M 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

  • TD
    The David Suzuki Foundation
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$3.1M · revenue +45%
  • CR
    Cetus Research & Conservation Society
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$310k · revenue +77%
  • HA
    HABITAT ACQUISITION TRUST
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$265k · revenue +639%

Funded once

  • HC
    Horticulture Centre of the Pacific
    one grant, 2020 · C$6k · revenue +22%
  • OS
    Oakbay Sea Rescue Society
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue -87%
  • VM
    Victoria Marine Rescue Societygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$4k · revenue +86%

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
Oceans Research and Conservation Association - Orca

Research and studies related to the conservation of marine life; identifying endangered marine species determining what their habitat needs are and how best to protect them and building the evidence base to support conservation efforts.

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2
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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3
Coastal Renewal Society

Developing educational programs and resources on ocean conservation.

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4
Rugged Coast Research Society

Research restoration and education of marine environments

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5
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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6
Canadian Coastal Research Society

Investigation of market mechanism to promote sustainable fishing practices. research and removal of marine debris from bc shore lines. research and reporting on the impacts of open netpen salmon farming on wild pacific salmon and their…

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7
Island Nature Trust

land acquisition through donation and purchase application of protection to those lands stewardship and management to retain ecological integrity protection and monitoring of species-at-risk nature education and engagement programs…

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8
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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9
Gorge Waterway Action Society

Preserve and enhance the Gorge Waterway in Victoria BC in Lekwungen territory through environmental and climate education restoration conservation stewardship biological monitoring and community involvement.

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10
Pacific Wildlife Foundation
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11
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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12
Porpoise.Org Porpoise Conservation Society

The Porpoise Conservation Society advances porpoise conservation through research education advocacy and direct action. Our long-term harbour porpoise research continued at two vital locations: Howe Sound off West Vancouver and the waters…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victoria Marine Rescue Society and the most unlike its peers is Broken Promises Rescue 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
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 budgetThe David Suzuki Foundation — C$3,110,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetAqueduct Foundation — C$2,470,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCetus Research & Conservation Society — C$310,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetHABITAT ACQUISITION TRUST — C$265,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetEcojustice Canada Society — C$175,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Haven Foundation — C$168,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetRaincoast Conservation Foundation — C$95,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGeorgia Strait Alliance — C$75,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetGlenlyon Norfolk School Foundation — C$71,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHelping Homeless Cats of Greater Victoria Society — C$57,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetVictoria Compost & Conservation Education Society — C$35,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetKNOWLEDGE NETWORK BC — C$18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHorticulture Centre of the Pacific — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOakbay Sea Rescue Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVictoria Marine Rescue Society — C$4,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSurfrider Foundation Canada Chapters — C$3,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBROKEN PROMISES RESCUE — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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…The Victoria Foundati…Makeway FoundationDavid Charitable TrustVancity Community Fou…Telus Employees Chari…The McLean FoundationVancouver FoundationFirst West FoundationThe Sitka FoundationAqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…
Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund TrustBC14× affinity14 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 · The Victoria Foundation · Makeway Foundation · David Charitable Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · The McLean Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · First West Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 17 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 861595973:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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