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Nanaimo, BC · Charitable organization

Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society

Collecting food donations from the food industry and individual donors providing quality nutritious food to people through our own distribution programs and through community partners

C$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
108
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$299k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 108 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k44 grants · C$149k
  • C$10k–50k47 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$50k–250k16 grants · C$1.8M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$299k
C$13,965
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ladysmith Resource Centre AssociationC$299,069
Chemainus Harvest House SocietyC$249,719
Society of St Vincent De Paul Vancouver IslandC$231,653
Cowichan Neighbourhood House AssociationC$180,709
Cowichan Valley Basket SocietyC$145,434
Boys and Girls Club of Central Vancouver IslandC$131,741
School District 68C$104,570
Wisteria Community AssociationC$103,077
Island Crisis Care SocietyC$87,328
Port Alberni Shelter SocietyC$85,533
The Mustard Seed Street ChurchC$84,304
Individual grant recipientC$79,033
Sayward Community Health SocietyC$71,683
Port Alberni Backpack Program SocietyC$67,868
Ballenas Housing SocietyC$55,642
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 89% of grant dollars (C$10M). The 11% that went abroad (C$1.2M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 11% of all-years giving (C$1.2M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$11M · 106 repeat orgsC$731k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

106 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
35

Total granted

C$11M
C$450k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+11%

Still filing today

87%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$281k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’22’23’24
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

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$756k · revenue +495% · 75% of their budget
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL VANCOUVER ISLAND
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$714k · revenue +52%
  • LR
    Ladysmith Resource Centre Association
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$703k · revenue +205%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · C$190k
  • TP
    THE PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA AND YU
    one grant, 2018 · C$42k
  • TP
    THE PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA AND YU
    one grant, 2020 · C$35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Nanaimo Meals On Wheels Society

Provides nutritious and affordable meals to those unable to cook for themselves (cooks and delivers)

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2
Nanaimo District Senior Citizens' Housing Development Society

The society provides low cost residential accommodation and a health care facility in nanaimo bc. including operation of 2 buildings with 30 and 45 subsidized units respectively. operation of a 75-bed multi-level care facility operation of…

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3
Victoria Community Food Hub Society

The society is a multi-stakeholder society that supports the development of a sustainable local food system on vancouver island. the over-srching goal of the organization is to increase the production of island-grown food while incubating…

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4
Comox Bay Care Society

Improving access to healthcare and related services through relationship building with individuals who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness in the comox valley.

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5
Squamish Food Bank Society

The squamish food bank is a non-profit charitable society. they provide food to those experiencing hunger in squamish. hundreds of residents rely on their services every month including individuals families single parents seniors and…

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6
Manna Homeless Society

The society responds to the needs of the homeless and the impoverished in the oceanside british columbia community by distributing free food emergency shelter (tents) and camping gear. we will meet people on their own turf since most lack…

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7
Nicola Valley Food Bank Society

Food bank - three days per week providing lower income families with supplement nutrition winter outerwear program - october and november christmas hamper program - december senior's program - extra nutrition children's dairy - provide…

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8
Vancouver Island Integrated Counselling and Community Services Society

Affordable individual and group counselling services to residents of Nanaimo and surrounding communities. Awareness and education about mental health and emotional health wellness issues. Development of future mental health practitioners…

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9
Comox Valley Head Injury Society

Mutual support groups e.g. head injury survivor groups anger management groups caregiver support groups family and financial crisis counselling specialized health organization food security programs. Support programs to help groups and…

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10
Hornby and Denman Community Health Care Society

Hornby and Denman Community Health Care Society continues to provide a variety of programs and services to residents of Hornby and Denman Islands and the Comox Valley. Home Assist provides services to assist seniors to remain living in…

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11
Nanaimo Brain Injury Society

1. community abi navigator program 2. intake assessment and case management 3. hospital peer support program 4. community peer support program 5. volunteer skills developemtn program 6. caregiver supports 7. education awareness and…

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12
Affordable Housing: Vancouver Island Society
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island and the most unlike its peers is Etra Therapeutic Riding Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

124 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. 124 of the 156 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/124
Grantees still filing
89/124
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$755,970 over 6y, 75% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL VANCOUVER ISLAND — C$714,480 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetLadysmith Resource Centre Association — C$703,409 over 6y, 17% of budgetChemainus Harvest House Society — C$584,476 over 4y, 93% of budgetWISTERIA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$575,374 over 4y, 82% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT 69 (NANAIMO-LADYSM — C$540,365 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCowichan Neighbourhood House Association — C$463,589 over 3y, 99% of budgetISLAND CRISIS CARE SOCIETY — C$449,386 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCH — C$373,434 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Central Vancouver Island — C$350,538 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCowichan Valley Basket Society — C$326,345 over 3y, 12% of budgetBELLENAS HOUSING SOCIETY — C$311,601 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$260,582 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetANGLICAN UNITED FELLOWSHIP OF PORT MACNEILL — C$209,431 over 4y, 28% of budgetPort Alberni Shelter Society — C$171,192 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCAMPBELL RIVER AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$167,766 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNANAIMO-LADYSMITH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$117,394 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetSOOKE FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$114,871 over 3y, 14% of budgetPeople for a Healthy Community on Gabriola Society — C$102,312 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetPort Alberni Backpack Program Society — C$101,774 over 2y, 39% of budgetHARDY BAY SENIORS SOCIETY — C$100,053 over 4y, 63% of budgetMAYNE ISLAND FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$99,425 over 3y, 30% of budgetSAANICH PENINSULA LIONS FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$90,673 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetNANAIMO FOOD SHARE SOCIETY — C$90,092 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetGOLD STREAM FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$89,027 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetLadysmith Family and Friends Society — C$88,996 over 6y, 11% of budgetNourish Cowichan Society — C$86,338 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPacifica Housing Advisory Association — C$86,031 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHILYE'YU LELUM (HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP) SOCIETY — C$85,704 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNANAIMO YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$82,397 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 85 (VANCOUVER I — C$79,673 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Island University — C$73,744 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOWELL RIVER ACTION CENTRE SOCIETY — C$72,191 over 2y, 12% of budgetSt Columba Anglican United Church — C$66,896 over 6y, 23% of budgetSALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY — C$65,189 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNanaimo Association for Community Living — C$63,303 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo — C$60,066 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNORTH ISLAND CRISIS AND COUNSELLING CENTRE SOCIETY — C$47,090 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION — C$46,319 over 4y, 9.3% of budgete3 Ministry Canada — C$46,170 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTILLICUM LEELUM — C$44,958 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Island Community Society — C$44,610 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNANAIMO 7-10 CLUB SOCIETY — C$44,607 over 4y, 41% of budgetNANAIMO FAMILY LIFE — C$43,726 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNANAIMO REGION JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$40,706 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetLAKE COWICHAN FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$40,525 over 3y, 25% of budgetCORTES ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$39,307 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetLIVING EDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$36,608 over 3y, 7.8% 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.

United Way Central an…Nanaimo Community Fou…Food Banks British Co…Rotary Club of Lantzv…Anglican Synod of the…First West FoundationTimes Colonist Christ…Bc Government Employe…Sovereign Order of St…The Victoria Foundati…The Bishop of VictoriaLighthouse Church Paoc
United Way Central and Northern Vancouver IslandBC46.5× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · Nanaimo Community Foundation · Food Banks British Columbia · Rotary Club of Lantzville Society · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · First West Foundation · Times Colonist Christmas Fund Society · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · The Bishop of Victoria · Lighthouse Church Paoc

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 156 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 charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 874258429:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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