Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Sons of Norway Foundation in Canada
Provide bursaries for post-secondary under-graduate studies and apprenticeships as well as gifts to qualified donees and grants to cultural and not-for-profit groups and amateur sports groups in support of their cultural and charitable programs.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k4 grants · C$888
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Caledonia Nordic Ski Club | C$125,000 |
| Alberni Valley Hospice Society (Ty Watson House) | C$500 |
| Norquay Emmanuel Lutheran Church | C$250 |
| Kelowna General Hospital Foundation | C$88 |
| Normanna Foundation | C$50 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 55% of grant dollars (C$409k). The 45% that went abroad (C$333k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 45% of all-years giving (C$333k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +110% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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$338 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
- SVST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2023 · C$2k · revenue +16%
- AVALBERNI VALLEY HOSPICE SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · C$1k · revenue +200%
- SFSKI FOR LIGHT CANADA2× · 2020–2023 · C$1k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- ELEIDSVOLD LODGE #53 SONS OF NORWAYone grant, 2017 · C$11k
- ELEIDSVOLD LODGE 7-003 SONS OF NORWAYone grant, 2023 · C$7k
- CRCANADA RED CROSSone grant, 2022 · C$6k · revenue -47%
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 British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…
Provision of home support services and group homes for the elderly disabled financially disadvantaged and other individuals who may need the society's services.
Seniors Services Society of BC (SSSBC) is a non-profit organization located in New Westminster BC that connects adults age 60 and older living in BC communities to housing navigation services and supports that help them age well and…
Working with BC Housing to provide and build affordable seniors housing in Peachland
Housing and care for seniors low-income and those with disabilities
1. Provides Complex Care for 131 Residents. The 131 Long Term Care Beds are funded by Fraser Health Authority. 2. Provides 70 Assisted Living/Supportive Housing Units defined as housing hospitality services and prescribed services. The 70…
Glacier view lodge society operates a complex care facility that provides 24-hour nursing care respite care and an adult day program to a diverse and aging community in the comox valley.
Nursing care; assistance to older adults who wish to live at home; support to caregivers; meals on wheels to those homebound or elderly; adult day and night care specializing in care for those with dementia such as alzhelmer's.
The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.
Provide and operate subsidized rental housing for low to moderate income seniors families and disabled adults. provide and operate below market rental housing for low to moderate income adults and families
The Sooke Hospice Society provides palliative support and care for terminally ill patients in the Sooke BC geographical region. The support is in the form of assistance with pain management and the discomforts of illness. The society…
Improving access to healthcare and related services through relationship building with individuals who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness in the comox valley.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver and the most unlike its peers is Norquay Emmanuel Lutheran Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 79 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.
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 CANADA RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds NORMANNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALBERNI VALLEY HOSPICE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SKI FOR LIGHT CANADA ↗
- Who funds CYRUS CENTRE ↗
- Who funds Salvationn Army ↗
- Who funds ELIZABET FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX TRANSITION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Norquay Emmanuel Lutheran Church ↗
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: Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Prince George Community Foundation · United Way of Northern British Columbia · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.