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Courtenay, BC · Charitable organization

Society of the Friends of Strathcona Park

Education and advocacy about strathcona park trail building and maintenance in strathcona park

C$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$400
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$200
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$47k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRATHCONA WILDERNESS INSTITUEC$400
WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAWC$200
ECOJUSTICE CANADAC$200
CAMPBELL RIVER SEARCH AND RESCUEC$100
FEDERATION OF MOUNTAIN CLUBS OF BCC$100
COMOX VALLEY SEARCH AND RESCUEC$100
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3k · 7 repeat orgsC$2k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

C$3k
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+129%

Still filing today

86%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$300 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’23’24
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

  • WC
    WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$420 · revenue +33%
  • WC
    WILDERNESS COMMITTEE
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$300 · revenue +71%
  • VW
    VALHALLA WILDERNESS SOCIETY
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$300 · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • NI
    North Island College Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$740 · revenue +129%
  • SW
    STRATHCONA WILDERNESS INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · C$400
  • WC
    WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
    one grant, 2023 · C$200

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
Pacific Wild Alliance

1. save bc wolves - our goal is to ensure that wolves have adequate habitat to continue their critical role as a keystone species. 2. protect pacific herring - we are working with central coast communities to highlight the importance of…

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2
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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3
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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4
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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5
Gambier Island Conservancy

Nature and habitat preservation trail maintenance and general environmental protection of gambier island b.c.

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6
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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7
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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8
Federation of British Columbia Naturalists

Operating under the name BC Nature The Federation of British Columbia Naturalists is the umbrella organization supporting over 53 local natural history organizations located throughout British Columbia. Ongoing programs include: i)…

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9
Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia

Through our programs and activities we (a) encourage British Columbians to participate in outdoor recreation (b) promote the safe and responsible use of the outdoors through education programs promoting safety and outdoor ethics (c)…

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10
Georgia Strait Alliance

Public Engagement – increasing the understanding of the importance of the health of Georgia Strait as a regional ecosystem and providing individuals and communities with the tools to take local and regional action to improve the health of…

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11
Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research Society

Coordination fo the friends of wild salmon coalition - convening of community groups and first nations on issues related to wild salmon in northwest b.c. - research on wild salmon in northwest watersheds. - public education on issues…

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12
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Okanagan Similkameen Parks Society and the most unlike its peers is North Island College Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTRATHCONA WILDERNESS SOCIETY — C$1,300 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNorth Island College Foundation — C$740 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW — C$420 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILDERNESS COMMITTEE — C$300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVALHALLA WILDERNESS SOCIETY — C$300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetECO JUSTICE — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOKANAGAN SIMILKAMEEN PARKS SOCIETY — C$120 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY SEARCH AND RESCUE — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF MOUNTAIN CLUBS OF BC — C$100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationBc Government Employe…United Way British Co…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
The Victoria FoundationBC7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way British Columbia · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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 19 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 charitable organization under public amenities.

Source object 131670002:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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