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Nanaimo, BC · Public foundation

Nanaimo Community Foundation

Distribution of funds to disadvantaged individuals promote educational advancement medical and scientific research and to contribute to public recreation athletic and cultural facilities.

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$253k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k31 grants · C$64k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$192k
  • C$50k–250k11 grants · C$1.0M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$253k
C$5,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL VANCOUVER ISLAND MULTICULTURAL SOCIETYC$253,064
NOURISH COWICHAN SOCIETYC$180,000
NANAIMO ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVINGC$150,000
COWICHAN VALLEY YOUTH SERVICESC$150,000
NANAIMO-LADYSMITH SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONC$115,975
NANAIMO FOODSHARE SOCIETYC$71,500
CHEMAINUS HARVEST HOUSE SOCIETYC$70,000
SPORT BCC$65,400
NANAIMO PORT THEATRE SOCIETYC$61,500
LADYSMITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS SOCIETYC$58,896
CEDAR OPPORTUNITIES BC SOCIETYC$50,000
CLAY TREE SOCIETY FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILIC$50,000
NANAIMO & DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$48,309
UNITARIAN FOUNDATION OF NANAIMOC$25,000
COWICHAN VALLEY HOSPICE SOCIETYC$23,280
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.4M · 72 repeat orgsC$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
65

Total granted

C$5.4M
C$512k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+27%

Still filing today

92%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$554k 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

  • NT
    NANAIMO TRAVELLERS LODGE SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$675k · revenue +136%
  • NP
    NANAIMO PORT THEATRE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$516k · revenue +27%
  • ND
    NANAIMO & DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$374k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • PC
    PARKSVILLE-QUALICUM COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$39k · revenue +817%
  • TL
    TILLICUM LELUM ABORIGINAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$38k · revenue +82%
  • VI
    VANCOUVER ISLAND CRISIS SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$34k · revenue +122%

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
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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Nanaimo Community Foundation

Distribution of funds to disadvantaged individuals promote educational advancement medical and scientific research and to contribute to public recreation athletic and cultural facilities.

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Nanaimo Fasd Society
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4
Affordable Housing: Vancouver Island Society
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5
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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6
Comox Valley Child Development Association

Supported child care services (0-12) - support for children with special needs to be included into integrated settings in the community. community integration program (12-19) - teens and young adults with special needs

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7
Comox Valley Family Services Association

The Association provides healthy support for children and families family development support and therapeutic counselling. The support and counselling is for individuals and in group environments.

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8
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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9
Nutritionlink Services Society

Nutritionlink services society (nls) promotes and enhances eating choices for people and communities in british columbia. nls works in collaboration with others to enhance individuals' ability to make healthy food choices. nls supports the…

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10
North Island Crisis and Counselling Centre Society

Providing advocacy crisis intervention referral services counselling and support services to residents of north vancouver island.

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11
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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12
Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland

Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca - Ywca of Vancouver Island and the most unlike its peers is Gabriola Arts Council. 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

141 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. 141 of the 161 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/141
Grantees still filing
99/141
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 budgetNANAIMO TRAVELLERS LODGE SOCIETY — C$675,154 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetNANAIMO PORT THEATRE SOCIETY — C$515,692 over 8y, 11% of budgetNANAIMO & DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$373,852 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetCENTRAL VANCOUVER ISLAND MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY — C$300,141 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetHAVEN SOCIETY — C$273,155 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetNANAIMO-LADYSMITH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$271,239 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD BANK FOUNDATION — C$237,720 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNANAIMO FOODSHARE SOCIETY — C$235,435 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetNANAIMO ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING — C$204,968 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRUGGED COAST RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$188,733 over 3y, 87% of budgetNOURISH COWICHAN SOCIETY — C$180,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCEDAR OPPORTUNITIES BC SOCIETY — C$158,663 over 2y, 20% of budgetCOWICHAN VALLEY YOUTH SERVICES — C$150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNANAIMO DISTRICT MUSEUM SOCIETY — C$96,782 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetPEOPLE FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY ON GABRIOLA SOCIETY — C$94,538 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetTRUE SPORT FOUNDATION — C$94,077 over 3y, 13% of budgetNANAIMO CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE SOCIETY — C$92,823 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$87,456 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetEcoforestry Institute Society — C$87,314 over 2y, 13% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VANCOUVER ISLAND — C$85,900 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLADYSMITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS SOCIETY — C$82,743 over 4y, 14% of budgetNANAIMO YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$70,801 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCHEMAINUS HARVEST HOUSE SOCIETY — C$70,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCLAY TREE SOCIETY FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILI — C$58,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLADYSMITH RESOURCES CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$45,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNANAIMO FAMILY LIFE ASSOCIATION — C$42,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetISLAND CRISIS CARE SOCIETY — C$40,544 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITARIAN FOUNDATION OF NANAIMO — C$40,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetPARKSVILLE-QUALICUM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$39,363 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetWISTERIA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$38,779 over 4y, 20% of budgetTILLICUM LELUM ABORIGINAL SOCIETY — C$38,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND SYMPHONY — C$35,636 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND CRISIS SOCIETY — C$34,200 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WIDOWS & ORPHANS FUND SOCIETY — C$33,180 over 2y, 15% of budgetIRIS MINISTRIES CANADA — C$33,085 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetYMCA-YWCA OF VANCOUVER ISLAND — C$33,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNANAIMO MEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE — C$32,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTRE OF NANATIMO — C$31,796 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA — C$30,008 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANAIMO COMMUNITY HOSPICE — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY — C$29,308 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNANAIMO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$28,919 over 1y, 10% of budgetKW'UMUT LELUM FOUNDATION — C$25,437 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER ISLAND — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY — C$24,235 over 2y, 25% of budgetCOWICHAN VALLEY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$23,280 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSOCIETY FOR EQUITY INCLUSION AND ADVOCACY: CENTRAL VANC — C$22,200 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPACIFICA HOUSING ADVOSORY ASSOCIATION — C$21,790 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Loaves and Fishes Com…First West FoundationRotary Club of Lantzv…The Board of Educatio…Bc Government Employe…The Victoria Foundati…United Way British Co…Ladysmith Health Care…Anglican Synod of the…The Western Communiti…The Hamber Foundation
United Way Central and Northern Vancouver IslandBC43.1× affinity48 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 · Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society · First West Foundation · Rotary Club of Lantzville Society · The Board of Education of School District No. 68 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith) · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Victoria Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Ladysmith Health Care Auxiliary · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · The Western Communities Foundation · 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 161 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 2024-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 889098174:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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