Calgary, AB · Private foundation
Sheldon Gilmour Foundation
We donate funds to support arts & education with a focus on youth.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$8k
- C$10k–50k4 grants · C$74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Victoria Foundation | C$25,000 |
| Keating Elementary School | C$24,000 |
| Harmony Project Society of British Columbia | C$15,000 |
| Alberta Children s Hospital Foundation | C$10,000 |
| Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival | C$7,500 |
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- VFVICTORIA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$193k · revenue +36%
- FSFATHER SCOLLEN SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · C$80k · revenue +14%
- HPHARMONY PROJECT SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA5× · 2020–2024 · C$75k · revenue +39% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- ASARTSREACH SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +50%
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.
The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.
Arts scholarships
To provide funding to the vancouver art gallery association to assist with the cost of maintaining a public art gallery and financial support of traveling exhibitions education and public programs and in acquiring works of art.
BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre
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…
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…
The Greater Victoria Danceworks Association runs an annual adjudicated dance showcase with performances from students enrolled in local (Vancouver Island & Vancouver Mainland) dance studios. Competition-stream soloists are selected to…
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.
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.
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…
The Vancouver International Children's Festival Society presented a fully in person festival from May 27-June 2nd 2024. We presented 14 international national and regional live shows plus hands on arts activities resulting in 75…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Board of Education of School District No. 63 (Saanich) and the most unlike its peers is The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FATHER SCOLLEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARMONY PROJECT SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds Keating Elementary School ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds ARTSREACH SOCIETY ↗
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: First West Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (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.