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Victoria, BC · Private foundation

Robert & Devi Jawl Foundation

Making gifts to qualified donees

C$292k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$21k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$46k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$225k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSICC$75,000
VICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETYC$50,000
PACIFIC OPERA VICTORIAC$50,000
BALLET VICTORIAC$50,000
BROADMEAD CARE SOCIETYC$25,875
CANADIAN HERITAGE ARTS SOCIETYC$10,000
CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICEC$10,000
VICTORIA FOUNDATIONC$5,000
VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONC$5,000
ISLAND KIDS CANCER ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONC$2,500
VICTORIA VISUAL ARTS LEGACY SOCIETYC$1,200
VICTORIA VISUAL ARTS LEGACY SOCIETYC$1,000
ALS SOCIETY OF BCC$1,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.4M · 19 repeat orgsC$186k 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 +38% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
13

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k 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

  • VS
    VICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$255k · revenue +20%
  • VC
    VICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$239k · revenue +23%
  • PO
    PACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$230k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • AC
    ANAWIM COMPANIONS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue -57%
  • BG
    BURNSIDE GORGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$40k · revenue +38%
  • VS
    Victoria Symphonygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue +49%

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
Victoria Summer Music Festival Society

The Victoria Summer Music Festival (VSMF) brings local Canadian and international musicians to Victoria to perform high-calibre chamber music. In 2024 the VSMF presented five evening concerts and one afternoon concert during July and…

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2
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

We are a public art gallery showcasing exhibitions from Canadian contemporary and historical artists international artists and a world-class Asian collection. We house and maintain the largest collection of visual arts in public trust in…

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3
Vancouver Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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4
The Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival Association

The society annually conducts a performing arts festival serving the Greater Victoria area.

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5
Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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6
Victoria Festival of Authors Society

Victoria Festival of Authors is Vancouver Island’s largest annual celebration of books and book lovers. Our hybrid festival offers in-person programming of regional authors most offered by livestream for those viewing from home as well as…

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7
Vancouver Opera Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to receive hold and invest bequests donations gifts funds and property and to administer and distribute funds property endowments trusts and financial programs for the funding and support of the programs…

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8
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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9
Pacific Opera Victoria Foundation

Promotion and support of the aims interests and activities for the advancement of opera by the pacific opera victoria association.

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10
Vancouver Island Symphony

Presents a series of concerts in the Central Vancouver Island Area. These include children's educational concerts. The goal of this charity is to create growth and appreciation of symphonic music.

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11
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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12
Victoria Humane Society

The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Victoria Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Power to Be Adventure Therapy 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

35 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
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 budgetVICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$255,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetVICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$239,250 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA — C$230,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetBALLET VICTORIA — C$230,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$149,549 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL BC MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$78,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBROADMEAD CARE SOCIETY — C$68,375 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VICTORIA ELDERCARE FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetANAWIM COMPANIONS SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBURNSIDE GORGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHeroWork Program Society — C$27,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetVictoria Symphony — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS OF VANCOUVER ISLAND — C$15,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetPower To Be Adventure Therapy Society — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND KIDS CANCER ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN HERITAGE ARTS SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN MUSEUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBelfry Theatre Society — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEINE KLEINE SUMMER MUSIC SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE CRIDGE CENTRE FOR THE FAMILY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINNIPEG ART GALLERY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF BC — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA VISUAL ARTS LEGACY SOCIETY — C$3,200 over 2y, 11% of budgetHOME OF GOOD HOPE IN NAMIBIA FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOWARD HOUSE SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR (BLUE SEA FOUNDATION) — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrain Tumor Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColdest Night of the Year (Our Place Foundation) — C$500 over 2y, 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…The Sisters of Saint …Bc Government Employe…Sovereign Order of St…First West FoundationThe Jawl FoundationCharlton L Smith Char…Raymond James Canada …United Way Southern V…The Hamber FoundationAnglican Synod of the…Tony and Mignon Fento…
The Victoria FoundationBC21.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · The Sisters of Saint Ann · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · First West Foundation · The Jawl Foundation · Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · The Hamber Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Tony and Mignon Fenton Trust

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 35 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 810331421:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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