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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Liber Ero Foundation

Private foundation established to advance education by providing two-year post-doctoral fellowships along with financial assistance to qualified scholars in conservation biology.

C$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$58k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$583k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$4.3M
C$105,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$4,000,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$305,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$163,333
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$120,000
ST. LAWRENCE RIVER INSTITUTTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCESC$105,000
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$105,000
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPHC$90,000
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$43,333
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$15,110
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.8M · 14 repeat orgsC$4.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

C$4.8M
C$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+15%

Still filing today

93%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.9M · revenue +43%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$475k · revenue +17%
  • SF
    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$460k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TU
    TRENT UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$75k · revenue +52%
  • UO
    UNIVERISTY OF THE FRASER VALLEY
    one grant, 2023 · C$19k · revenue +15%
  • UO
    University of Manitoba
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k · revenue +3%

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 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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2
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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3
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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4
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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5
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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6
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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7
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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8
Universite Concordia

The main mission of the University is to provide post-secondary and graduate education. It engages in research public services and assists students faculties and researchers. Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science Gina Cody…

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9
The Governing Council of the University of Toronto

Instruction and research in a university.

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10
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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11
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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12
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Fraser Valley and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Trust of British Columbia. 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

20 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. 20 of the 24 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$4,000,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$1,855,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$475,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$460,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$315,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$288,333 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDalhousie University — C$193,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$190,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$162,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$155,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBISHOPS UNIVERSITY — C$155,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG — C$155,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of Windsor — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST. LAWRENCE RIVER INSTITUTTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES — C$105,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcadia University — C$30,197 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERISTY OF THE FRASER VALLEY — C$18,685 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$15,110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Manitoba — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA UKRAIN FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Aqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationAbundance CanadaCanada GivesToronto FoundationStrategic Charitable …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…BenefAction FoundationUnited Way of Greater…United Way East Ontar…
Aqueduct FoundationBC7.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Abundance Canada · Canada Gives · Toronto Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario

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 24 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 advancing education.

Source object 798890299:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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