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Somerset Foundation

No specific quantifiable programs - worked towards general objectives of the foundation

C$245k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$39k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$206k
C$5,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KBF FOUNDATION CANADAC$30,000
CHUTE CREEK STEWARDSHIP SOCIETYC$30,000
ASHOKA CANADAC$30,000
OUTWARD BOUND CANADAC$25,112
YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONC$25,000
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$20,000
DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATIONC$20,000
INSPIRE HEALTH SOCIETYC$16,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$10,000
NEXTWAVE FOUNDATION (HOLLYHOCK)C$5,000
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERSC$5,000
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF MOPOC$5,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$4,000
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$4,000
HOPE IN SHADOWSC$3,200
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.1M · 34 repeat orgsC$218k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
26

Total granted

C$2.1M
C$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+16%

Still filing today

97%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • AC
    ASHOKA CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$232k · revenue +68%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$211k · revenue +126%
  • KF
    KBF FOUNDATION CANADA
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$195k · revenue ×39

Funded once

  • NP
    NWM PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$93k · revenue +302%
  • EE
    ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEMS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue -40%
  • TS
    THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE OF CANADA
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue -100%

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
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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2
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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3
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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4
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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5
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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6
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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7
Vancouver Status of Women

Vancouver Status of Women's ongoing work focuses on feminist community building with women and gender diverse peoples towards equity in social political and economic spheres. The Coordinating Collective provides ongoing support to…

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8
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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9
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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10
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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11
Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation

Forest Conservation Environmental education awareness programs in BC schools Climate change awareness Community engagement Mother tree local leaders program Restoring our relationships with nature Building capacity for indigenous-led…

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12
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Polity Research 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

61 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. 61 of the 62 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
42/61
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 budgetASHOKA CANADA — C$231,650 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$210,832 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKBF FOUNDATION CANADA — C$195,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetPIVOT FOUNDATION — C$153,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CANADA — C$105,112 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNWM PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATION — C$93,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$90,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSALAL FOUNDATION — C$85,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTIDES CANADA — C$85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEVA CANADA SOCIETY — C$70,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$61,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$50,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetENDANGERED ECOSYSTEMS ALLIANCE — C$50,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetINSPIRE HEALTH SOCIETY — C$46,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEXTWAVE FOUNDATION — C$41,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetBC SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATION — C$36,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF MOPO — C$30,000 over 6y, 50% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE OF CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$22,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMANKIND PROJECT CANADA — C$21,150 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetTRUST FOR SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY — C$19,900 over 2y, 99% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — C$19,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetPAL VANCOUVER — C$16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMRIDERS PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetELEKTRA WOMENS CHOIR — C$14,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetARTS CLUB THEATRE COMPANY — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION WITHOUT BORDERS FOUNDATION — C$13,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetHOPE IN SHADOWS — C$11,200 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$10,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP ARTABAN SOCIETY — C$10,400 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetWESTCOAST LEAF — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER INTER-CULTURAL ORCHESTRA SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORTES ISLAND SENIORS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITY CHARITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPICE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON (SOUTH FOUNDATION) — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICA INTIMA SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS VANCOUVER — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ASHOKA CANADA ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KBF FOUNDATION CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CHUTE CREEK STEWARDSHIP SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PIVOT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUTWARD BOUND CANADA ↗
  • Who funds NWM PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SALAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CANADA ↗
  • Who funds MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SEVA CANADA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEMS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRE HEALTH SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NEXTWAVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BC SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF MOPO ↗
  • Who funds THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds MANKIND PROJECT CANADA ↗
  • Who funds TRUST FOR SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY ↗
  • Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds PAL VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds DREAMRIDERS PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ELEKTRA WOMENS CHOIR ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CLUB THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION WITHOUT BORDERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IN SHADOWS ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP ARTABAN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WESTCOAST LEAF ↗
  • Who funds ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE VANCOUVER INTER-CULTURAL ORCHESTRA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CORTES ISLAND SENIORS 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.

Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Makeway FoundationZlc FoundationVancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…The Victoria Foundati…Ocean Wise Conservati…Jewish Federation of …Aqueduct FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Givewise Foundation C…
Vancity Community FoundationBC17× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The Victoria Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Aqueduct Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Givewise Foundation Canada

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 62 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 2024-10-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 871151718:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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