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Victoria, BC · Public foundation

Oak Bay Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation

The association held the following ongoing programs: - annual christmas tree recycling fundraiser; - going 'round in circles annual fundraiser; - hat sales from the firehall sold throughout the year.

C$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,918
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CFAX SANTAS ANNONYMOUS SOCIETYC$7,500
BRITISH COLUMBIA PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS' BURN FUNDC$3,500
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADAC$2,918
VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$2,500
THE TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONC$2,500
WOUNDED WARRIORSC$1,500
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$140k · 11 repeat orgsC$25k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

C$140k
C$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+54%

Still filing today

91%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% 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

  • VH
    VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$43k · revenue +167%
  • TB
    The Board of Education of School District No. 61 (Greater Vi
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$25k · revenue +45%
  • MC
    MD Canada
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$24k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • OB
    OAK BAY SEA RESCUE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$8k · revenue -28%
  • TC
    TIMES COLONIST LITERARY SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue +65%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue -50%

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.

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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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2
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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3
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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4
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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5
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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6
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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7
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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8
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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9
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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10
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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11
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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12
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island and the most unlike its peers is Oak Bay Sea Rescue Society. 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

20 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. 20 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVICTORIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$43,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Board of Education of School District No. 61 (Greater Vi — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMD Canada — C$23,583 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBCPFFA Burn Fund — C$22,825 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCFAX SANTAS ANNONYMOUS SOCIETY — C$10,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOAK BAY SEA RESCUE SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE TERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCFAX SANTAS ANONYMOUS — C$3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIMES COLONIST LITERARY SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics British Columbia — C$1,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOak Bay Volunteer Services — C$1,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProstate Cancer Canada — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRE HEALTH — C$1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF OAK BAY — C$1,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetOak Bay Rotary Foundation — C$450 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMovember Canada — C$325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUMBRELLA SOCIETY — C$200 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.

The Victoria Foundati…Bc Government Employe…CIBC Foundation / Fon…First West FoundationSaanich Fire Fighters…Telus Employees Chari…Vancity Community Fou…Victoria Fire Fighter…Sovereign Order of St…Anglican Synod of the…Nickle Family Foundat…Vancouver Foundation
The Victoria FoundationBC13.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · CIBC Foundation / Fondation CIBC · First West Foundation · Saanich Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · Victoria Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Nickle Family Foundation · Vancouver 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 23 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 850474487:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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