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Victoria, BC · Private foundation

McEwen Family Charitable Trust

The purposes of the tust are to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the income tax act (canada).

C$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$189k
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

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$151k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$189k
C$28,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$188,857
BEDDIE LUMINARIESC$44,000
VANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARDC$31,250
Individual grant recipientC$30,000
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 38C$28,000
REYNOLDS SECONDARY SCHOOLC$18,000
EASTEND ARTS COUNCIL INC.C$4,069
BC AMATEUR SPORTS FUNDC$3,150
KIDS SAFE PROJECTC$2,500
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 12 repeat orgsC$504k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+13%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$80k 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
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$813k · revenue +55%
  • VS
    VANCOUVER SCHOOL BAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$481k · revenue +29%
  • HJ
    HENRY JAMES CAMBIE SECONDARY SCHOOL TRUST FUND
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$130k · revenue +3% · 84% of their budget

Funded once

  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2019 · C$133k
  • MF
    MAYO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$65k
  • CC
    CANADIAN CONSTITUION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue +13%

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
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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2
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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3
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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4
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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5
Camosun College Foundation

The Foundation assists Camosun College to expand and enhance its educational programs or services not funded by government including financial aid to students at Camosun College. The Foundation provides an opportunity for individual…

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6
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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7
Vancouver Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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8
Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation
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9
British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation

The bcit foundation raises funds to further the goals and objectives of british columbia institute of technology ('bcit') for the development and expansion of the education programs services capital projects and other initiatives as…

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10
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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11
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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12
Bc Sport & Exercise Medicine Research Foundation

Conduct research into sports related injuries and treatment -disburse research awards to graduate students performing research -involve in the planning and implementation of a multi-faceted research program including presentation and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation 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

18 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. 18 of the 32 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$812,929 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL BAND — C$480,586 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY JAMES CAMBIE SECONDARY SCHOOL TRUST FUND — C$130,000 over 5y, 84% of budgetH.J. CAMBIE SECONDARY SCHOOL — C$74,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetVGH/UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$68,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CONSTITUION FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEDDIE LUMINARIES — C$44,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VICTORIA SCHOOL DISTRICT — C$18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetERNST C. MANNING AWARDS FOUNDATION — C$11,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSHAWINIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTEND ARTS COUNCIL INC. — C$9,069 over 2y, 10% of budgetBC CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — C$6,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCH — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF BC — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER SCHOOL BAND ↗
  • Who funds HENRY JAMES CAMBIE SECONDARY SCHOOL TRUST FUND ↗
  • Who funds H.J. CAMBIE SECONDARY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VGH/UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN CONSTITUION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEDDIE LUMINARIES ↗
  • Who funds SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER VICTORIA SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds ERNST C. MANNING AWARDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHAWINIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EASTEND ARTS COUNCIL INC. ↗
  • Who funds BC CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds ALS SOCIETY OF BC ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗

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.

CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)BC3.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.

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 32 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 829719988:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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