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Winnipeg, MB · Private foundation

Postmedia Network Foundation

POSTMEDIA NETWORK FOUNDATION (the 'foundation') continued the 'raise-a-reader' program aimed at raising funds in literacy awareness in canada.

C$560k
Granted FY2019
24
Grants FY2019
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Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2019 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$36k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$173k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$351k
C$7,974
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$169k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIMES COLONIST LITERACY SOCIETYC$149,543
INTERIOR COMMUNITY SERVICESC$81,960
LITERACY ALBERNI SOCIETYC$62,846
TIMES COLONIST LITERACY SOCIETYC$56,998
DECODA LITERACY SOLUTIONS SOCIETYC$49,216
PROJECT LITERACY KELOWNA SOCIETYC$32,326
COMOX VALLEY ADULT LEARNINGC$22,300
SASKATCHEWAN LITERACY NETWORKC$18,229
CANUCKS FOR KIDS FUNDC$17,500
VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARYC$17,500
FRONTIER COLLEGEC$15,710
A BOOK OF MY LITERACY CAMPAIGNC$7,974
LITERACY QUESNEL SOCIETYC$7,500
COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACYC$7,500
SPRUCELAND TRADITIONAL SCHOOLC$2,100
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 43 repeat orgsC$369k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2019, 31 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
28

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+75%

Still filing today

93%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$298k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
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

  • IC
    INTERIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$214k · revenue +75%
  • DL
    DECODA LITERACY SOLUTIONS SOCIETY
    2× · 2017–2019 · C$100k · revenue +5%
  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 62 (SOOKE
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$90k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • LD
    LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$14k · revenue -38%
  • CI
    CENTRAL INTERIORS NATIVE HEALTH CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +83%
  • LQ
    LITERACY QUESNEL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · C$8k

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

Provide k-12 public education

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2
Victoria Literacy Connection Society

Literacy programs

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3
Learning Buddies Network of the Lower Mainland Society

Volunteer tutoring for struggling elementary school children. Learning Buddies Network provides free tutoring in reading and math to BC children who are struggling in these academic areas.

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4
The Board of Education of School District No. 85 (Vancouver Island North)

We are responsible for offering public education programs (from Kindergarten to Grade 12) on Northern Vancouver Island BC.

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5
Learning Disabilities Association of British Columbia

Live Learning - online tutoring program K-12 - Literacy Program Support & Resources to parents, students & teachers Public Educations & Support services for charitable sector

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6
Victoria Read Society

Provided students of all ages assessments of and instruction to in basic literacy numeracy English skills to help them with their reading. This includes noisy kids reading club an after school program in elementary schools.

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7
Alberni Valley Childcare Society

Alberni Valley Childcare Society provides childcare to the Alberni Valley. They operate three sites and programs for infants toddlers ages 3-5 and before/after school care

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8
The Board of Education of School District No. 72 (Campbell River)

Provide public education to grades kindergarten to 12 scholarships for school district programs early child learning centre for 3&4 year olds

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9
The Board of Education of School District No. 48 (Sea to Sky)
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10
One to One Literacy Society

One to one offers unique children's literacy programs that supports children to develop their literacy skills and confidence. since 1989 they have provided one-to-one tutoring to children in elementary schools during regular school hours.…

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11
Learning Disabilities Society of Greater Vancouver

The services include one-to-one tutoring sponsorships for disadvantaged children who require tutoring literacy programs peer leadership programs social skills programs self-help support group for young adults public awareness programs…

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12
Vancouver Montessori School Society

Education programs for pre-school kindergarten and elementary students.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Board of Education of School District No. 63 (Saanich) and the most unlike its peers is Interior Community Services. 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

66 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. 66 of the 79 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/66
Grantees still filing
54/66
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 budgetINTERIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$214,328 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTIMES COLONIST LITERACY SOCIETY — C$206,541 over 1y, 62% of budgetPROJECT LITERACY — C$157,871 over 3y, 17% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN LITERACY NETWORK — C$133,061 over 3y, 15% of budgetDECODA LITERACY SOLUTIONS SOCIETY — C$100,017 over 2y, 16% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 62 (SOOKE — C$89,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$62,568 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT LITERACY — C$62,040 over 2y, 12% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 63 (SAANICH) — C$53,700 over 2y, 51% of budgetA BOOK OF MY OWER LITERACY CAMPAIGN — C$50,254 over 3y, 90% of budgetGREATER VICTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD — C$46,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANUCKS FOR KIDS FUND — C$45,068 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEI LITERACY SOCIETY — C$31,963 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetQUINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — C$24,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY ADULT LEARNING — C$22,300 over 1y, 14% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 79 (COWICHAN VALLEY) — C$19,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTIER COLLEGE — C$15,710 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 71 (COMOX VALLEY — C$15,300 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetLITERACY QUESNEL SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION — C$13,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64 (GUELPH ISLANDS) — C$10,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL INTERIORS NATIVE HEALTH CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 68 (NANAIMO-LADYSMITH) — C$9,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CENTRE FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLDABC THE LEARNING CURVE — C$9,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budget1000X5 CHILDRENS BOOK RECYCLING — C$9,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC IND SCHOOLS OF THE DIOCESE OF VICTORIA — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART SCHOOL — C$5,150 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCH — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HANDS ON SUMMER CAMP SOCIETY — C$4,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES MONTESSORI SOCIETY, THE — C$4,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTEMIS PLACE SOCIETY — C$4,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$4,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDECODA LITERACY SOLUTIONS SOCIETY — C$4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC MONTESSORI SOCIETY — C$4,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 69 (QUALICUM) — C$3,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 69 (QUALICUM) — C$3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$2,847 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHULTAN FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPG NATIVE FRIENSHIP CENTRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING DIFFERENCES CENTRE OF BC — C$2,100 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWINDSOR ESSEX CHILDRENÈS AID FOUN — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPG NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC. — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIEW ROYAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — 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.

Times Colonist Litera…The Victoria Foundati…United Way Central an…Construction Foundati…The Art Starts in Sch…United Way Southern V…Decoda Literacy Found…University of VictoriaFirst West FoundationBc Government Employe…Vancouver Sun Childre…The Prince George Com…
Times Colonist Literacy SocietyBC38.6× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Times Colonist Literacy Society · The Victoria Foundation · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) Society · The Art Starts in Schools Society · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Decoda Literacy Foundation · University of Victoria · First West Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society · The Prince George Community 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 79 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 2019-08-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2019. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 805497005:2019-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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