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Victoria, BC · Private foundation

McAdams Foundation

Purchase of medical equipments supplies and program for children undergoing medical treatment or suffering from disabilities.

C$66k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$43k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$24k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIMON KEITH FOUNDATIONC$13,738
HELP FILL A DREAM FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$10,000
VICTORIA COMMUNITY LIVING FOUNDATIONIC$7,500
VICTORIA THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONC$5,000
TAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$5,000
ISLAND KIDS CANCER ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$5,000
ZAJAC RANCH SOCIETYC$4,000
POWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY SOCIETYC$4,000
Individual grant recipientC$2,000
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$400k · 20 repeat orgsC$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

C$400k
C$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+1%

Still filing today

90%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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

  • VT
    VICTORIA THERAPEUTIC RIDING
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$30k · revenue +138%
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LIVING ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$30k · revenue +52%
  • TM
    THE MUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCH
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$30k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • SC
    STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$8k · revenue -1%
  • VH
    VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$6k
  • HO
    HOME OF GOOD HOPE
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue -79%

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
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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2
Make a Wish Foundation of British Columbia and the Yukon

Our mission at Make-A-Wish Foundation BC & Yukon is to grant the wishes of children with life threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope strength and joy. Together we create life-changing wishes for children…

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3
Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island

1. grants-provided to organizations and major initiatives that focus on removing barriers and creating opportunities for children and youth with disabilities or health challenges. grants include program equipment mental health and bear…

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4
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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5
Special Olympics British Columbia Society

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…

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6
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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7
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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8
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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9
British Columbia Autism Foundation
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10
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

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…

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11
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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12
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Fill a Dream Foundation of Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Mustard Seed Street Church. 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

23 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. 23 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
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 budgetHELP FILL A DREAM — C$60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetVICTORIA THERAPEUTIC RIDING — C$30,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING ASSOCIATION — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCH — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION TRACKSHOES — C$26,500 over 6y, 63% of budgetPOWER TO BE — C$24,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetZAJAC RANCH SOCIETY — C$23,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCANASSIST (UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA) — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANUCKS PLACE CHILDRENS HOSPICE — C$20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$19,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA COMMUNITY LIVING FOUNDATIONI — C$15,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA - BC BRANCH — C$13,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY CANADA — C$13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND KIDS CANCER ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION CANADA — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOME OF GOOD HOPE — C$5,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF BC — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABOUT FACE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF BC — C$1,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$1,000 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.

Bc Government Employe…The Victoria Foundati…First West FoundationC-Fax Santa's Anonymo…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…United Way British Co…Norgaard FoundationRobert & Devi Jawl Fo…Children's Health Fou…Vancity Community Fou…CIBC Foundation / Fon…The Hamber Foundation
Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund TrustBC11× affinity10 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 · First West Foundation · C-Fax Santa's Anonymous Society · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way British Columbia · Norgaard Foundation · Robert & Devi Jawl Foundation · Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island · Vancity Community Foundation · CIBC Foundation / Fondation CIBC · The Hamber Foundation

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 29 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 2024-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 898016787:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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