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Squamish, BC · Public foundation

Squamish Community Foundation

Issuing grants to meet the needs of eligible community donees through income generated from investments and donations.

C$279k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$255k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$24k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$255k
C$2,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$149k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANCOUVER FOUNDATIONC$255,000
PEARLSPACE SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETYC$3,300
SQUAMISH HELPING HANDS SOCIETYC$3,000
PEERNET ASSOCIATION OF BCC$2,500
WHISTLER ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAMC$2,000
TANTALUS WELLSPRINGS SOCIETYC$2,000
SQUAMISH VOLUNTEER CENTRE SOCIETYC$2,000
SEA TO SKY BC SPCAC$2,000
SEA TO SKY INVASIVE SPECIES COUNCILC$1,900
OURSQUAMISH PLACEMAKING SOCIETYC$1,500
SQUAMISH FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$1,500
DISTRICT OF SQUAMISH MUNICIPAL LIBRARYC$1,435
FILIPINO SENIORS CLUB OF BCC$1,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 24 repeat orgsC$76k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
19

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+44%

Still filing today

92%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • VF
    VANCOUVER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$802k · revenue +40%
  • SV
    SQUAMISH VOLUNTEER CENTRE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$82k · revenue +70%
  • HS
    HOWE SOUND WOMEN'S CENTRE
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$51k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • SS
    SQUAMISH SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue +32%
  • SE
    SQUAMISH ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +197%
  • EL
    ECOLE LES AIGLONSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +91%

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
Squamish River Watershed Society

Watershed restoration including restoring fish habitat in the upper rivervine systems and the Squamish estuary. Running educational and outreach programming for students and community. Hosting and holding events (Earth Day Rivers Day).…

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2
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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3
Squamish Nation Youth Centre

Provides social recreation guidance and counselling services to high risk squamish nation youths between ages of 12 and 19 years.

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4
Shoreline Medical Society

To provide adequate community access to primary health services by offering a network of primary care clinics on the saanich peninsula

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5
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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6
Special Olympics British Columbia Society

Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…

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7
South Fraser Search and Rescue Society

South Fraser Search and Rescue provides volunteer emergency response services as recognized by the Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness. Our primary response area covers Delta Richmond Surrey and White Rock BC however our…

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8
South Fraser Regional Science Fair (Sfrsf)
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9
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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10
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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11
Squamish Neighbourhood Animal Partnership & Protection Society

Fundraising; pet wellness and education clinics; squamish nation; pet valu

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12
Squamish Community Foundation

Issuing grants to meet the needs of eligible community donees through income generated from investments and donations.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Squamish Volunteer Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is Cheakamus Foundation for Environmental Learning. 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

37 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. 37 of the 46 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
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 budgetVANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$801,750 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSQUAMISH VOLUNTEER CENTRE SOCIETY — C$82,479 over 7y, 21% of budgetHOWE SOUND WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$51,440 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSEA TO SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$36,664 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT #48 — C$29,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAMQUAM RIVER ACCESS SOCIETY — C$21,600 over 2y, 27% of budgetSEA TO SKY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$18,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetSQUAMISH HELPING HANDS SOCIETY — C$16,540 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSQUAMISH SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSQUAMISH SENIORS CENTRE SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetBC SPCA — C$14,040 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SQUAMISH FOUNDATION — C$12,132 over 2y, 17% of budgetSQUAMISH ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetECOLE LES AIGLONS — C$9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAMISH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$9,156 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSEA TO SKY INVASIVE SPECIES COUNCIL — C$6,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOUR SQUAMISH PLACEMAKING SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetSQUAMISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,560 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWHISTLER ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM — C$5,150 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTANTALUS WELLSPRING SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetPathways Serious Mental Illness Society — C$4,650 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVERS BC — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS BC — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRISTIS SOCIETY BC AND YUKON DIVISION — C$4,170 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEAKAMUS FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING — C$3,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION SOCIETY OF BC — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEERNET ASSOCIATION OF BC — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSQUAMISH TRAILS SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE EXPLORERS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBC ADAPTIVE SNOWSPORTS — C$1,650 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF BAHA'IS OF SQUAMISH — C$1,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetDISTRICT OF SQUAMISH MUNICIPAL LIBRARY — C$1,435 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEAL HOUSE SOCIETY/BC LIONS SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFILIPINO SENIORS CLUB OF BC — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$426 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.

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.

Whistler Blackcomb Fo…Community Foundation …United Way British Co…Bc Government Employe…Parish of St JohnWest Vancouver Commun…Vancouver FoundationWhistler Health Care …TELUS Friendly Future…The Joseph Segal Fami…The Andrew Mahon Foun…The Hamber Foundation
Whistler Blackcomb Foundation SocietyBC18.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Society · Community Foundation of Whistler · United Way British Columbia · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Parish of St John · West Vancouver Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Whistler Health Care Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · The Hamber Foundation

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 46 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 882548902:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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