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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

McLean Family Foundation

This private foundation receives funds for the purpose of making donations to other registered charities.

C$202k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$2k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$80k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$120k
C$15,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$539k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC/YUKON COMMAND OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION FOUNDATIONC$60,000
BC SPCAC$60,000
THE SOCIETY FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIFIC LEARC$35,000
BOWEN CHILDREN'S CENTREC$15,000
NIAGARA GOG RESCUEC$10,000
HOME OF GOOD HOPE IN NAMIBIA FOUNDATIONC$10,000
ONTARIO REPTILE RESCUEC$10,000
ST. PIUS X PARISHC$1,760
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 23 repeat orgsC$267k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
14

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+28%

Still filing today

96%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$60k 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

  • BC
    BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$401k · revenue +38%
  • BS
    BC SPCA
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$213k · revenue +82%
  • EI
    EYESIGHT INTERNATIONAL (CANADA)
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$130k · revenue +116% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

  • BS
    BC SPCA
    one grant, 2023 · C$70k
  • TP
    TURNING POINT RECOVERY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue -81% · 59% of their budget
  • CC
    CHIMP: CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION (CANADA)graduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$23k · revenue +98%

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 Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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2
Victoria Humane Society

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…

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3
Vancouver Humane Society

1. We provide veterinary care for the companion animals of people on a limited income or those who have taken in stray animals. 2. We advise educate and offer solutions to the public businesses and government for the humane treatment of…

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4
Spca Vancouver Hospital Trust Fund

Provides grants to spca vancouver hospital for spaying and neuter services and emergency care maitenance and rehb of ill injured animals who are strays or abandoned

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5
Straight Outta Rescue Society

Straight Outta Rescue Society is a 100% volunteer-run rescue and registered charity based in Vancouver BC. We partner with loving foster homes to provide care for homeless and abandoned cats and dogs while working to match them with their…

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6
Cowichan Cat Rescue

Rescue and provide veterinary care for abandoned cats and kittens with emphasis on feral cat colonies. provide trap spay/neuter and release (tnr) program for healthy feral cats. rescue feral kittens young enough to tame and adopt out;…

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7
Cats Home Foundation

Cats Home Foundation rescues rehabilitates and rehomes stray abandoned and surrendered cats and kittens. Catch Neuter Vaccinate Release programs for colony and community cats. Cat care and welfare education for the public.

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8
Animal Advocates Society of Bc

Rescue and rehabilitation; assist in the rescue rehabilitation and rehoming of animals primarily cats and dogs but may also include other pet species such as rabbits etc; humane education; use the aas website display ads the media…

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9
About a Dog Rescue Society

We continued to rescue and rehabilitate dogs (and other animals) provide medical care for other dogs in the community for families not able to afford vet care. We continued to give each animal rescued a home either in Puerto Vallarta or…

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10
Cats of Salt Spring Rescue Society

Promoting the rescue and placement of stray or abandoned cats. Establishing and supporting 'Community Cat' Trap-Neuter-Release-Manage (TNRM) programs Community-based education to enhance the understanding of issues related to the welfare…

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11
Boundary Helping Hands Feline Rescue Society

Boundary helping hands feline rescue society strives to improve the quality of life & reduce the increase of population of domestic cats while at the same time raising public awareness regarding pet ownership

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12
Helping Homeless Cats of Greater Victoria Society

We assist abandoned domestic cats by providing spay/neuter and necessary veterinary care. we maintain an adoption program for abandoned domestic cats scan potential homes follow-up and support. we maintain a foster program for abandoned…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Healthy Brain Foundation. 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

34 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. 34 of the 38 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
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 budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$400,833 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBC SPCA — C$212,834 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEYESIGHT INTERNATIONAL (CANADA) — C$130,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetRAINBOW LODGE RECOVERY RETREAT SOCIETY — C$128,250 over 4y, 99% of budgetCREATE CHANGE FOUNDATION — C$126,666 over 6y, 17% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIFIC LEAR — C$95,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOME OF GOOD HOPE IN NAMIBIA FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 8y, 73% of budgetLAST DOOR RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWESTMINSTER HOUSE SOCIETY — C$65,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBROCKTON SCHOOL — C$48,583 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$47,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOWEN CHILDREN'S CENTRE — C$32,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetONTARIO REPTILE RESCUE — C$30,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetNIAGARA GOG RESCUE — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTURNING POINT RECOVERY FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetCHIMP: CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION (CANADA) — C$23,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNETH GORDON FOUNDATION — C$22,500 over 2y, 72% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHORE FOUNDATION — C$19,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE — C$16,666 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLARK ANGELS FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD SCHOOL — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES NORTH SHORE — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCAWES (Coast Animal Welfare & Education Society) — C$7,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAMILTON-WENTWORTH CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRITTER CARE WILDLIFE SOCIETY — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST. PIUS PARISH — C$3,520 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER BOARD OF EDUCATION SHCOOL DISTRICT NO.39 — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRTS CAT THERAPY AND RESCUE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREGIONAL ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$2,000 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Ocean Wise Conservati…Jt Charitable TrustZlc FoundationPacific Animal Founda…The Giustra FoundationVancity Community Fou…Vancouver FoundationAqueduct FoundationTelus Employees Chari…Bc Government Employe…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC9.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Jt Charitable Trust · Zlc Foundation · Pacific Animal Foundation · The Giustra Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust

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 38 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 857244297:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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