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Victoria, BC · Public foundation

Power to Give Foundation

The foundation supports children`s health and the environment by providing funding to canadian registered charities and intermediaires.

C$907k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$255k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$54k
  • C$10k–50k16 grants · C$303k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$295k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$255k
C$10,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$221k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATIONC$255,000
PACIFIC WILD ALLIANCEC$194,500
PHYSICAL LITERALY FOR LIFEC$50,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
VICTORIA CITY POLICE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONC$40,000
THE AMP LEGACY FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$40,000
KIDSPORT CANADAC$40,000
TRADES GUILDC$25,000
TRADES GUILDC$25,000
LIL E COFFEE CAFEC$20,000
STIGMA FREE SOCIETYC$15,000
Individual grant recipientC$15,000
WEST COAST MULTIPLEX SOCIETYC$12,425
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY NAWALAKWC$11,000
WEREDALE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.2M · 27 repeat orgsC$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
59

Total granted

C$4.2M
C$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+45%

Still filing today

89%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$382k 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

  • WK
    WASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$960k · revenue ×16 · 25% of their budget
  • PW
    PACIFIC WILD ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$945k · revenue +28%
  • HP
    HEROWORK PROGRAM SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$850k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • PT
    POWER TO BE
    one grant, 2022 · C$175k
  • F
    FOUNDRY
    one grant, 2022 · C$150k · revenue +5%
  • WK
    WASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$150k

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 Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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2
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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3
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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4
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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5
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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6
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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7
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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8
Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation

Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation is an independent charity that supports Metro Vancouver Regional Parks. With the number of park visitors rapidly rising we work to fill the gaps in public funding to ensure our parks remain…

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9
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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10
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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11
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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12
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pain Bc Society and the most unlike its peers is Wild Heart Music Program 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

80 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. 80 of the 108 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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
58/80
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 budgetWASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATION — C$960,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetPACIFIC WILD ALLIANCE — C$944,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetHEROWORK PROGRAM SOCIETY — C$850,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetPOWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY SOCIETY — C$470,388 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetTHE YELLOW BUS FOUNDATION — C$211,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY NAWALAKW — C$155,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDRY — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetERICA LEGACY FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCANADA COASTAL RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$140,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetThe Kidsafe Project Society — C$100,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetWeredale Foundation — C$85,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetHELICOPTER WITHOUT BORDERS — C$56,200 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) — C$55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget13TH ROUND FIGHT FOR LIFE — C$53,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetWEST COAST MULTIPLEX SOCIETY — C$52,625 over 3y, 37% of budgetDARKSPARK FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetALTIRA WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SARAH MCLACHLAN FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetVICTORIA CITY POLICE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapitol Theatre Heritage Foundation — C$35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBALFOUR'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetSTUDENTS ON ICE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRAINCOAST EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$21,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetLIL E COFFEE CAFE — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHELP US HELP — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$15,195 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPORT FOR LIFE — C$15,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTIGMA FREE SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetIsland Kids Cancer Association — C$15,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE ORILLIA PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCANADA GIVES HOPE FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetWOLVERTON FOUNDATION — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHUMAN NATURE COUNSELLING — C$11,675 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetROOTS OF EMPATHY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED LIFETIME ADOVACY NETWORK — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity First Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStory Studio Writing Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWILD HEART MUSIC SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBEEDIE LUMINARIES FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAIN BC — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEARNING DISALILITIES SOCIETY OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRAILS YOUTH INITIATIVES — C$7,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBV YOUTH SPORT FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNAVY LEAGUE OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$5,000 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.

The Annual FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…Nelson Arthur Hyland …First West FoundationVancity Community Fou…The Hamber FoundationUniversity of VictoriaBc Government Employe…Diamond FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Clayoquot Biosphere T…Peter & Joanne Brown …
The Annual FoundationON27.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Annual Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Nelson Arthur Hyland Foundation · First West Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · University of Victoria · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Diamond Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Clayoquot Biosphere Trust Society · Peter & Joanne Brown 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 108 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 806276721:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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