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Salt Spring Island, BC · Public foundation

Salt Spring Island Foundation

The Salt Spring Island Foundation provides grants to qualified registered charitable organizations on and benefiting Salt Spring Island residents.

C$789k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$171k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$74k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$209k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$506k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust SocietyC$171,000
Capital Regional DistrictC$116,847
BC Parks FoundationC$100,000
Islanders Working Against Violence SocietyC$67,800
Salt Spring Arts Council SocietyC$50,051
British Columbia School District No. 64 (Gulf Islands)C$31,952
Island Arts Centre (ArtSpring)C$24,942
Salt Spring Island Public Library AssociationC$20,772
Island Community Services SocietyC$18,534
Salt Spring Literacy SocietyC$15,490
Bandemonium Music SocietyC$15,000
Fulford Community Hall AssociationC$15,000
Island Pathways SocietyC$15,000
Salt Spring Farmers' Heritage FoundationC$11,977
Gulf Islands Marine Rescue SocietyC$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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.1M · 50 repeat orgsC$376k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
22

Total granted

C$4.1M
C$246k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+18%

Still filing today

94%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$130k 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

  • SS
    SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$375k · revenue +116%
  • SD
    School District #64
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$342k · revenue +30%
  • SS
    Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$327k · revenue ×14 · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • LM
    Lady Minto Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · C$101k · revenue +8%
  • SS
    SALT SPRING ISLAND SEARCH AND RESCUE
    one grant, 2019 · C$30k · revenue +5% · 26% of their budget
  • GI
    Gulf Islands Families Together Society
    one grant, 2018 · C$17k

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
Salt Spring Jazz and Blues Society

Promotion and facilitation of jazz and blues music on salt spring island and the surrounding region. weekly jam sessions. staging of occasional concerts on salt spring island. fundraising for local school music programs.

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2
Salt Spring Island Land Bank Society

Supply affordable housing to low income workers non-workers and homeless persons.

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3
Salt Spring Fire Rescue Society

Purchasing facilities and equipment and supplying resources to support the Salt Spring Island Fire Protection District in order to improve fire rescue and emergency services on Salt Spring Island BC.

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4
Salish Sea Marine Rescue Society

The Society provides marine Search and Rescue services to the communities surrounding Pender Island including Galiano Mayne and Saturna Islands

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5
Salmon Coast Society

Salmon coast supports innovative research public education community outreach and ecosystem awareness to achieve lasting conservation measures for the lands and waters of the broughton archipelago and surrounding areas by: - helping…

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6
Salt Spring Sanctuary Society

Conducting trials of new varieties of all kinds of vegetables. Maintenance of membership database and members' plant evaluations. Answering letters phone calls and emails from both individuals and communities regarding seed saving.…

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7
S.a.L.T.S. Sail and Life Training Society

SALTS operates two tall ships and teaches approximately 1700 young people (ages 13-24) to sail them each year. In the spring and fall school groups participate in five-day voyages to the Gulf Islands of southern BC. During the summers…

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8
Cats of Salt Spring Rescue Society

Promoting the rescue and placement of stray or abandoned cats. Establishing and supporting 'Community Cat' Trap-Neuter-Release-Manage (TNRM) programs Community-based education to enhance the understanding of issues related to the welfare…

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9
Peninsula Streams Society

The purposes of the society are to organize and participate in environmental projects and programs on the saanich peninsula and surrounding areas that will: monitor preserve and restore flora and fauna. monitor preserve and restore rivers…

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10
Westcoast Inland Search and Rescue Society

Ground Search and Rescue operations on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Area of operations includes Hesquiaht to Broken Group Islands and West to Sutton Pass summit.

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11
Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society

The quadra island salmon enhancement society operates an environmental education centre and conducts salmon and watershed enhancement activities on quadra island bc. revenue consists mainly of government grants memberships donations and…

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12
Salt Spring Zen Circle Society

Wednesday night zazen (sitting meditation) on line sit & study every sunday annual in-person 4 day meditation retreat

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Arts Centre Society (Artspring) and the most unlike its peers is Lady Minto Hospital Auxiliary 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

69 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. 69 of the 77 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
49/69
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 budgetSALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOC — C$374,999 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetSchool District #64 — C$341,962 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSalt Spring Island Farmland Trust Society — C$326,716 over 8y, 34% of budgetStqeeye' Learning Society — C$282,910 over 7y, 20% of budgetSalt Spring Arts Council Society — C$271,995 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetIslanders Working Against Violence Society — C$184,730 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetIsland Pathways — C$150,291 over 6y, 54% of budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$111,779 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetLady Minto Hospital Foundation — C$101,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBC Parks Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSalt Spring Island Historical Society — C$82,837 over 8y, 34% of budgetSALT SPRING THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION — C$82,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetSALT SPRING INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION & ACTION — C$81,932 over 4y, 18% of budgetSWOVA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$60,870 over 8y, 11% of budgetSALT SPRING FARMERS HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$56,813 over 8y, 52% of budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND FOUNDATION — C$55,990 over 5y, 11% of budgetIsland Arts Centre (ArtSpring) — C$49,250 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetSALT SPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH SOCEITY — C$44,889 over 4y, 47% of budgetGRAFFITTI THEATRE COMPANY SOCIETY — C$43,100 over 5y, 23% of budgetGulf Islands Marine Rescue Society — C$40,687 over 6y, 17% of budgetFulford Community Hall Association — C$38,250 over 4y, 70% of budgetSalt Spring Island Conservancy — C$37,331 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetGreenwoods Eldercare Society — C$36,580 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBeaver Point Community Hall Association — C$32,735 over 4y, 33% of budgetSalt Spring Literacy Society — C$31,490 over 5y, 10% of budgetGreenwoods Foundation — C$30,089 over 3y, 30% of budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND SEARCH AND RESCUE — C$30,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTRANSITION SALT SPRING SOCIETY — C$26,972 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSalt Spring Island Film Festival Society — C$24,801 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetGulf Islands Seniors Residence Association — C$24,323 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBIRTHING FAMILIES FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSalt Spring Co-op Preschool Society — C$18,897 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetGulf Islands Families Together Society — C$18,881 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY — C$18,604 over 8y, 57% of budgetTHE LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE SOCIETY — C$16,790 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetStagecoach Theatre School for the Performing Arts — C$15,621 over 5y, 11% of budgetFulford Harbour Childcare Society — C$15,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetBandemonium Music Society — C$15,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetGULF ISLANDS EARLY LEARNING SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetISLAND STREAM & SALMON ENHANCEMENT — C$15,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria — C$13,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLady Minto Hospital Auxiliary Society — C$11,400 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSalt Spring National Art Prize Society — C$10,019 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND PASTORAL CHARGE - UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA — C$9,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSalt Spring Baroque Music Society — C$8,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetBC AND YUKON ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION FOUNDATION (LEGION BRANCH — C$8,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNANAIMO MEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE — C$8,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSALT SPRING FORUM — C$7,700 over 3y, 7.2% 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…First West FoundationRaffi Foundation for …Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…West Vancouver Commun…Times Colonist Litera…Jemini FoundationUnited Way Southern V…Vancouver FoundationThe Hamber FoundationThe Wilding Foundation
The Victoria FoundationBC25.3× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · First West Foundation · Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · West Vancouver Community Foundation · Times Colonist Literacy Society · Jemini Foundation · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Vancouver Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · The Wilding 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 77 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 811053255:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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