Victoria, BC · Private foundation
McGregor Young Foundation
The foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in our community by maintaining permanent funds and other gifts and by making gifts to other 'qualified donees' as defined in the income tax act (canada).
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$30k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HAVEN FOUNDATION | C$500,000 |
| THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION | C$50,000 |
| KIDS HELP PHONE | C$50,000 |
| VICTORIA WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY | C$20,000 |
| THRESHOLD HOUSING SOCIETY | C$10,000 |
| VICTORIA HOSPICE | C$5,000 |
| VICTORIA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE | C$5,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against -100% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k went to new ones.
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
- KHKIDS HELP PHONE3× · 2017–2021 · C$65k · revenue +177%
- THTHRESHOLD HOUSING SOCIETY2× · 2020–2021 · C$35k · revenue +316%
- VWVICTORIA WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY2× · 2020–2021 · C$30k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- RCRiver City Squash Organizationone grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…
The vhs's mandate is to build freestanding hospices in vancouver and support bereaved families. vsh raises public awareness for quality end-of-life care. vhs raises funds to develop hospice facilities and provide community services such as…
The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…
The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.
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.
Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…
The society operates programs aimed to end violence against women and to act as an educational force for progressive changes in attitudes laws institutional procedures and to work for the prevention of rape. vancouver rape relief society…
The Society offers life-changing services to people who are impacted by poverty colonization stigma and homelessness. These services include permanent housing emergency shelter health and dental care employment assistance and social and…
We provide support and training to almost 300 anti-violence programs across BC that respond to sexual and intimate partner violence child abuse and criminal harassment. We work to increase the coordination of services for survivors in the…
Offers a range of low barrier drop in resources including crisis court counselling advocacy and health services for individuals who have experienced gender-based violence. Accompaniment to hospital police and court. Specialized co-location…
Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…
Based in BC Options is Canada's largest non-profit provider of sexual health services through clinics education programs an information and referral service. We also have a peer support program for women living with HIV/HCV. We champion…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victoria Women's Transition House Society and the most unlike its peers is River City Squash Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · First West Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · The Sisters of Saint Ann · University of Victoria · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Private Giving 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.