Victoria, BC · Charitable organization
Saanich Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation
THE FOUNDATION DONATES TO PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT YOUTH GIVES TO LOCAL FOOD BANKS & SHELTERS RAISES MONEY FOR BURN TRAMAS & MEDICAL RESEARCH.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k12 grants · C$20k
- C$10k–50k4 grants · C$92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Victoria Hospitals Foundation | C$36,600 |
| Island Kids Cancer Association | C$25,400 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Canada | C$20,054 |
| British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund | C$10,105 |
| CFAX Santas Anonymous Society | C$5,000 |
| Greater Victoria School District | C$4,200 |
| The Terry Fox Foundation | C$2,500 |
| Wounded Warriors Canada | C$2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$2,000 |
| Lakehill Baseball and Softball | C$1,000 |
| Hampton Little League | C$1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$500 |
| Frank Leversedge Memorial Fund | C$500 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$500 |
| Sarah Beckett Memorial Run | C$500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 85% of grant dollars (C$349k). The 15% that went abroad (C$60k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 15% of all-years giving (C$60k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.
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
- VHVictoria Hospitals Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · C$137k · revenue +167%
- IKIsland Kids Cancer Association2× · 2023–2024 · C$41k · revenue +75%
- BCBritish Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund4× · 2017–2024 · C$32k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- VHVICTORIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · C$10k
- BBBC BURN FUNDone grant, 2020 · C$8k
- VFVictoria Fire Fighter Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$7k · revenue +123%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esquimalt Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Norgaard Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 43 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Victoria Hospitals Foundation ↗
- Who funds Muscular Dystrophy Canada ↗
- Who funds Island Kids Cancer Association ↗
- Who funds British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund ↗
- Who funds CFAX Santas Anonymous Society ↗
- Who funds The Terry Fox Foundation ↗
- Who funds Victoria Fire Fighter Foundation ↗
- Who funds Norgaard Foundation ↗
- Who funds Childrens health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mustard Seed ↗
- Who funds Brain Tumour Foundation ↗
- Who funds Wounded Warriors Canada ↗
- Who funds Esquimalt Fire Fighter Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oak Bay Fire Fighter Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mad Hatter Ball ↗
- Who funds South Island Foster Parents ↗
- Who funds The Salvation Army ↗
- Who funds Movember ↗
- Who funds Silver Threads ↗
- Who funds Victoria Society for Children with Autism ↗
- Who funds Disaster Aid Canada ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Victoria Foundation · Oak Bay Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation · Victoria Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · CIBC Foundation / Fondation CIBC · Norgaard Foundation · C-Fax Santa's Anonymous Society · First West Foundation · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur
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.