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Burnaby, BC · Private foundation

Kaiser Foundation for Higher Education

The foundation made donations to qualified donees (universities & colleges) during the year.

C$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$2.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$2.2M
C$2,200,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$2,200,000
MACLEAN MCQUAIG FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.9M · 6 repeat orgsC$190k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

C$5.9M
C$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+23%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.7M · revenue +55%
  • SF
    Simon Fraser University
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$134k · revenue +43%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$30k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +12%
  • UO
    University of Calgarygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue +27%
  • TC
    TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · C$40k · revenue +23%

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
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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2
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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3
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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4
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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5
University of Prince Edward Island

Post-Secondary Education

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6
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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7
Trinity Western University

Founded in 1962 Trinity Western University is a global Christian liberal arts university. We are dedicated to equipping students to discover meaningful connections between career life and the needs of the world. Drawing upon the riches of…

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8
Vancouver Island University

Vancouver island university (viu) is an organization that values a diverse range of training and education. viu offers programs from basic literacy to vocational programs trades undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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9
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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10
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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11
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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12
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Trinity College School. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$5,654,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$133,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCLEAN MCCUAIG FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 2.4% 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.

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 9 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 887260065:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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