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Burnaby, BC · Charitable organization

Plant a Seed & See What Grows Foundation

A) to advance education by providing publicly available scholarships to fulltime students enrolled in a post-secondary botany and/or plant sciences or preventative healthcare and/or health promotion education program; b) to receive and maintain a funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time…

C$59k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,000
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FARM TO CAFETERIA CANADA SOCIETYC$6,000
ST. JOHN'S-KILMARNOCK SCHOOLC$5,000
MAPLE RIDGE/PITT MEADOWS COMMUNITY SERVICESC$5,000
PROTON FOUNDATIONC$3,515
PINANTAN ELEMENTARY C/O THE BOARD OF EDUCAITON OF SCHOOL DISC$3,000
MACKENZIE SECONDARY SCHOOL C/O THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHC$3,000
KATZIE ELEMENTARY C/O THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRC$3,000
EASTVIEW ELEMENTARY C/O THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISC$3,000
CONTIGO INTERNATIONAL INC FOR BIRCH NARROWS DENE COMMUNITYC$3,000
CHIGNECTO-CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION WST COLCHESTC$3,000
CEDAR COMMUNITY SECONDARY SCHOOL C/O THE BOARD OF EDUCATIONC$3,000
THE BOARD OF EDUCTION SCHOOL DISTRICT 44 NORTH VANCOUVERC$2,500
DISABLED INDEPENDENT GARDENERS ASSOCIATIONC$2,500
CANADIAN COLLEGE OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINEC$2,000
MINNETONKA SCHOOL C/O LOUIS RIEL SCHOOL DIVISION TRUST FUNDC$2,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$108k
Ontario
C$49k
Quebec
C$12k
New Brunswick
C$6k
Nova Scotia
C$3k
Saskatchewan
C$3k
Manitoba
C$3k
Alberta
C$3k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$132k · 18 repeat orgsC$54k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

C$132k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+16%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$35k 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +55%
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 36
    2× · 2019–2024 · C$13k · revenue +40%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF NATUROPATHIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$10k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CD
    CENTRE DE REHABILITATION LE NICHOIR INC.
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +16%
  • CS
    Conseil Scolaire Catholique Providencegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +28%
  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT 42 - MAPLE RIDGE & PITT MEADOWS
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
The Board of Education of School District No. 5 (Southeast Kootenay)

K-12 School District operating 17 schools

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2
The Board of Education of School District No. 48 (Sea to Sky)
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3
The Board of Education of School District No. 34 (Abbotsford)
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4
The Board of Education of School District No. 33 (Chilliwack)

Operation of a kindergarten to grade 12 school system in accordance with the bc ministry of education program of studies. additional programs are run through other sources such as strong start and ready set learn. additional funds are…

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5
The Board of Education of School District No. 78 (Fraser-Cascade)

To provide educational programs for students enrolled in schools in the district including to provide post-secondary scholarships and bursaries to graduating students and enhancing the learning environment of the school district.

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6
The Board of Education of School District No. 45 (West Vancouver)

Scholarships bursaries awards.

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7
The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver)

The board of education of school district no. 39 (vancouver) is to enable students to reach their intellectual social aesthetic and physical potential in challenging and stimulating settings which reflect the worth of each individual and…

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8
The Board of Education of School District No. 62 (Sooke)

School District No. 62 (Sooke) provides educational programs within the boundaries of the District in accordance with the British Columbia School Act.

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9
The Board of Education of School District No. 79 (Cowichan Valley)

School board

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10
The Board of Education of School District No. 28 (Quesnel)

Education programs Operating a publicly funded school system in Quesnel BC

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11
The Board of Education of School District No. 84 (Vancouver Island West)

Provide k-12 public education

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12
The Board of Education of School District No. 35 (Langley)

Public schools and board

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Board of Education of School District No. 57 (Prince George) and the most unlike its peers is Contigo International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 37 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)
35/36
Grantees still filing
22/36
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 36 — C$13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF NATUROPATHIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH — C$10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA — C$9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAPLE RIDGE/PITT MEADOWS COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN ORGANIC GROWERS INC. — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSEEDS OF DIVERSITY CANADA-PROGRAMME SEMENCIER DU PA — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 43 - (COQUITLAM — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARM TO CAFETERIA CANADA SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEASTVIEW ELEMENTARY C/O THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DIS — C$5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. JOHN'S-KILMARNOCK SCHOOL — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDISABLED INDEPENDENT GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPROTON FOUNDATION — C$4,715 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 23 (CENTRAL OK — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDistrict School Board of Niagara — C$4,107 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOUCHER INSTITUTE OF NATURAOPATHIC MEDICINE SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARLTON PLACE & DISTRICT YOUTH CENTRE — C$3,900 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPINANTAN ELEMENTARY C/O THE BOARD OF EDUCAITON OF SCHOOL DIS — C$3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHIGNECTO-CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION WST COLCHEST — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACKENZIE SECONDARY SCHOOL C/O THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCH — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE DE REHABILITATION LE NICHOIR INC. — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCEDAR COMMUNITY SECONDARY SCHOOL C/O THE BOARD OF EDUCATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConseil Scolaire Catholique Providence — C$2,748 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 42 - MAPLE RIDGE & PITT MEADOWS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEER LAKE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SCHOOL — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOOTHILLS ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPEC — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTILLIUM LAKELANDS DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD CHARITABLE TRUST — C$2,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNETONKA SCHOOL C/O LOUIS RIEL SCHOOL DIVISION TRUST FUND — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetECOLE LEILA NORTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL C/O SEVEN OAKS SCHOOL DIV — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThompson Rivers University Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED DEER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR ANNIE L GAETZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — C$250 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.

Td Friends of the Env…Music Education Chari…Indigo Love of Readin…Vancity Community Fou…Sedin Family Foundati…Construction Foundati…Club des petits déjeu…The Art Starts in Sch…Vancouver Sun Childre…Vancouver FoundationThe Western Communiti…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON17.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Music Education Charity of Canada · Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · Vancity Community Foundation · Sedin Family Foundation · Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) Society · Club des petits déjeuners du Canada - Breakfast Club of Canada · The Art Starts in Schools Society · Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society · Vancouver Foundation · The Western Communities Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 37 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 2024-05-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under foundations.

Source object 806222832:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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