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Victoria, BC · Public foundation

Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation

Providing aid to the sick and the poor - with total charitable disbursements of $851 121 for 2024

C$840k
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k24 grants · C$107k
  • C$10k–50k35 grants · C$683k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAANICH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLACEC$50,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY - RE: SENIORS GIFT CARD PROGRAMC$45,000
OUR PLACE SOCIETYC$37,400
VICTORIA NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTREC$35,000
VICTORIA COOL AID SOCIETYC$32,400
VICTORIA RAINBOW KITCHEN SOCIETYC$30,000
COWICHAN VALLEY BASKET SOCIETYC$30,000
VICTORIA COMMUNITY FOOD HUB SOCIETYC$30,000
NOURISH COWICHAN SOCIETYC$30,000
SHELBOURNE COMMUNITY KITCHENC$30,000
VICTORIA WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOUSEC$25,000
9-10 SOUP CLUB KITCHENC$25,000
UMBRELLA SOCIETY FOR ADDICTIONS & MENTAL HEALTHC$20,400
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION (BACKPACK BUDDIES)C$20,000
GOLDSTREAM FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$20,000
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 44 repeat orgsC$355k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
20

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+30%

Still filing today

98%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$272k 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

  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY - RE: SENIORS GIFT CARD PROGRAM
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$169k · revenue +30%
  • OP
    OUR PLACE SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$117k · revenue +140%
  • VC
    VICTORIA COOL AID SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$111k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • VF
    VICTORIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$24k · revenue +16%
  • VI
    VANCOUVER ISLAND COUNSELLING CENTRE FOR IMMIGRANTS AND REFUG
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k
  • VI
    VANCOUVER ISLAND KIDS KLUB CENTRE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k

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
Comox Valley Food Bank Society

To relieve poverty by operating a food bank that distributes food and other necessities to persons of low income Supporting local programs that provide meals for those experiencing food insecurity Food Rescue from local vendors Over 20…

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2
Island Crisis Care Society

The society provides emergency shelter food and referrals for counseling and other services at multiple facilities in the mid-vancouver island region. supportive and transitional housing: samaritan place newcastle place orca place and…

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3
Victoria Society for Children With Autism

Providing programs to caregivers and parents of autistic children including a caregiver respite family food bank caregiver support events community autism library and family support events.

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4
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

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.

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5
Affordable Housing: Vancouver Island Society
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6
Victoria Humane Society

The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…

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7
Victoria Sexual Assault Centre Society

VSAC provides crisis intervention justice-related support services and counselling programs for those affected by sexual assault and/or childhood sexual abuse. The Sexual Assault Response Team provides 24-hour emotional support to recent…

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8
Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy food to those in need. The Society provides food support to approximately 16 000 children adults and seniors monthly through its…

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9
Victoria Community Resources Society

The charity promoted and developed community living arrangements that enable those who live with challenging needs to actualize their personal values and enjoy a consistent lifestyle. the charity operates two residences in victoria to…

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10
Comox Bay Care 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.

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11
Vancouver Island Autistic Homes Society

Residential care homes: in-house support programs; individualized day programs; and support for individuals who contract to support persons with disabilities in the individual's family home. Information referral and advocacy on autism…

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12
Vancouver Island Integrated Counselling and Community Services Society

Affordable individual and group counselling services to residents of Nanaimo and surrounding communities. Awareness and education about mental health and emotional health wellness issues. Development of future mental health practitioners…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island and the most unlike its peers is Mount St Mary Hospital. 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

69 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. 69 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
33/69
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 budgetVictoria Hospice — C$191,331 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY - RE: SENIORS GIFT CARD PROGRAM — C$169,150 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOUR PLACE SOCIETY — C$117,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORIA COOL AID SOCIETY — C$110,650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAANICH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLACE — C$105,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetVICTORIA RAINBOW KITCHEN SOCIETY — C$92,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetVICTORIA NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUMBRELLA SOCIETY FOR ADDICTIONS & MENTAL HEALTH — C$65,112 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSHELBOURNE COMMUNITY KITCHEN — C$58,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCOPMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION (BAKCPACK BUDDIES) — C$56,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budget9-10 SOUP CLUB KITCHEN — C$53,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetLIVING EDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$39,300 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetTHE VICTORIA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SOCIETY — C$38,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHER WAY HOME (VANCOUVER ISLAND HEALTH AUTHORITY) — C$32,217 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION - RE: SOUPER MEALS — C$32,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOUSE — C$30,740 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVICTORIA COMMUNITY FOOD HUB SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetANAWIM COMPANIONS SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCOWICHAN VALLEY BASKET SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNOURISH COWICHAN SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE — C$28,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetISLAND METIS FAMILY SERVICES — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND KIDS KLUB CENTRE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOVEREIGN ORDER OF ST JOHN - PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION RE C — C$25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetJAMES BAY NEW HORIZONS SOCIETY — C$23,860 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetVICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$23,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRIDGE CENTRE FOR THE FAMILY — C$22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARIE ESTHER SOCIETY - RE: PALLIATIVE AND SPIRITUAL CARE — C$21,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOOKE FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPEERS VICTORIA RESOURCES SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHRESHHOLD HOUSING SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBURNSIDE GORGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGOLDSTREAM FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetYM/YWCA VANCOUVER ISLAND PANDORA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOAP FOR HOPE CANADA — C$17,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND COUNSELLING CENTRE FOR IMMIGRANTS AND — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOBBLE HILL-MILL BAY - SHAWNIGAN LAKE FOOD BANK — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF VICTORIA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOUTH SOCIETY — C$12,750 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND MENS THERAPY CENTRE SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMUSTARD STREET CHURCH — C$11,460 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY PARTNERS SOCIETY SOUTH VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOAK BAY VOLUNTEER SERVICES SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSAANICH VOLUNTEER SERVICES — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHULITAN FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOWICHAN VALLEY YOUTH SERVICES — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VICTORIA SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$10,000 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.

United Way Southern V…The Victoria Foundati…First West FoundationAnglican Synod of the…Bc Government Employe…The Sisters of Saint …Rotary Club of Victor…Times Colonist Christ…The Bishop of VictoriaThe Western Communiti…Charlton L Smith Char…Victoria Truth Centre…
United Way Southern Vancouver IslandBC43× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Southern Vancouver Island · The Victoria Foundation · First West Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Sisters of Saint Ann · Rotary Club of Victoria - Harbourside Foundation · Times Colonist Christmas Fund Society · The Bishop of Victoria · The Western Communities Foundation · Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation · Victoria Truth Centre Inc.

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 86 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 835901471:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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