Port Alberni, BC · Private foundation
John W Casanave Memorial Foundation
Donations are made to registered charities and other like organizations.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | C$1,981 |
| TY WATSON HOUSE | C$1,500 |
| BREAD OF LIFE | C$1,500 |
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.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- SASALVATION ARMY7× · 2017–2024 · C$7k · revenue +510%
- BOBREAD OF LIFE6× · 2017–2024 · C$5k · revenue +153%
- TWTY WATSON HOUSE4× · 2017–2024 · C$3k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- VCVARIETY CLUBone grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue +19%
- SKSHOW KIDS YOU CAREone grant, 2021 · C$100
- HSHeart & Strokeone grant, 2019 · C$100
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.
BC Wheelchair Sports Association helps people with physical disabilities across the province lead active healthy lives through wheelchair sports by offering the following on an ongoing basis: Wheelchair Sport (Athletics Rugby Tennis)…
Provide information and support to families and care-partners affected by psp msa and cbd. collaborate with healthcare professionals to increase awareness and improve treatment. fund research leveraging partnerships with other charitable…
1.raising funds for research and cure of als within british columbia 2.providing patient services to those diagnosed with als 3.raising public awareness of the als disease 4.providing information to caregivers dealing with those afflicted…
Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…
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…
The als society of alberta is a charitable organization dedicated to making each day the best possible day for people living with and affected by als (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) across the province of alberta. we achieve our mission by…
1. we provide peer reviewed als research grants. 2. we provide support for direct client services including an equipment program for people living with als in ontario. 3. we develop and distribute educational materials for people living…
The Alzheimer Society of B.C. is committed to ensuring people affected by dementia are not alone and have the confidence and skills to live the best life possible. First Link? dementia support is the organization’s suite of programs and…
Programs and services supporting those affected by als including equipment loan programs adapted technology and support groups
Peer Support Programs - providing program and supports for clients and their families Information and Education - providing awareness of Spinal Cord Injury issues and specific answers and information through responses to individual…
Funding medical research public awareness patient education and support website resources
The cerebral palsy sports association of bc (cpsabc) is a non-profit volunteer-driven association whose goal is to create a fun and safe social environment for athletes with a physical disability. the cerebral palsy sports association of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Canada Sp Canada and the most unlike its peers is West Coast General Hospital Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 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.
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 SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE ↗
- Who funds TY WATSON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WEST COAST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORT ALBERNI SHELTER ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CLUB ↗
- Who funds MS Foundation ↗
- Who funds Canadian Council of the Blind ↗
- Who funds Canadian Down Syndrome ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BC Wheelchair Basketball ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN CEREBRAL PALSY ↗
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: Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way British Columbia · United Way of Calgary and Area · Vancouver Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.