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Saturna, BC · Public foundation

Saturna Island Community Foundation

Building endowment fund fundraising and grants to community

C$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$70k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENDER ISLANDS HEALTH CARE SOCIETYC$1,000
SATURNA ISLAND RECREATION AND CULTURAL SOCIETYC$807
SATURNA ISLAND MARINE AND RESEARCH SOCIETYC$512
ANGLICAN PARISH OF PENDER AND SATURNA ISLANDSC$500
SCHOOL DISTRICT # 64C$500
EDDIE REID MEMORIAL LIBRARYC$400
GIRL GUIDES OF CANADAC$322
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$16k · 10 repeat orgsC$1k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

C$16k
C$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
-47%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$400 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SR
    Saturna Recreation and Cultural Centre
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$3k · revenue +80%
  • PI
    PENDER ISLANDS HEALTH CARE SOCIETY
    2× · 2019–2024 · C$2k · revenue +165%
  • SI
    SATURNA ISLAND MARINE AND RESEARCH SOCIETY
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$1k · revenue +291%

Funded once

  • SI
    SATURNA ISLAND MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · C$550
  • VM
    VIVO MEDIA ARTS CENTRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$500 · revenue -47%

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
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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2
Saanich Marine Rescue Society

Promotion of safe boating. volunteers trained in marine search and rescue fire fighting advanced first aid & nautical skills. society assists canadian coast guard and rcmp in patrolling & emergency responses. society operates and maintans…

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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
Saturna Island Volunteer Firefighters' Association

20+ volunteers @ 2hrs/week + callouts & training firefighting search & rescue public safety education & awareness training fire permit registration fundraising

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5
Salt Spring Island Search and Rescue Society

Provide search and rescue activities throughout the southern gulf islands.

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6
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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7
The Pender Islands Museum Society

The Pender Islands Museum Society operates a small museum located on North Pender Island within the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. The museum which focuses on local history is open to the public on a published schedule or by request.…

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8
Gulf Islands Marine Rescue Society

Training and coordination of marine rescue volunteers in the gulf islands.

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9
Salt Spring Island Public Library Association

Public Library providing resources and programming to local community

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10
Shoreline Medical Society

To provide adequate community access to primary health services by offering a network of primary care clinics on the saanich peninsula

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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
Squamish River Watershed Society

Watershed restoration including restoring fish habitat in the upper rivervine systems and the Squamish estuary. Running educational and outreach programming for students and community. Hosting and holding events (Earth Day Rivers Day).…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saturna Island Fire Protection Society and the most unlike its peers is Saturna Island Marine Research and Education 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSaturna Recreation and Cultural Centre — C$3,376 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPENDER ISLANDS HEALTH CARE SOCIETY — C$1,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSATURNA ISLAND MARINE AND RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$1,495 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetANGLICAN PARISH OF PENDER & SATURNA ISLANDS — C$1,083 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT # 64 — C$985 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSATURNA ISLAND FIRE PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$747 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL GUIDES OF CANADA — C$522 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIVO MEDIA ARTS CENTRE — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDDIE REID MEMORIAL LIBRARY — C$400 over 1y, 1.4% 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…Vancouver FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Victoria FoundationBC8.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 13 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 2024-03-31, 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 804426450:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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