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Sechelt, BC · Public foundation

Sunshine Coast Foundation

We support charitable endeavours on the sunshine coast by building endowments and making grants to qualified donees within the community.

C$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$72k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k20 grants · C$84k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$194k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$72k
C$7,425
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNSHINE COAST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETYC$72,005
SUNSHINE COAST FESTIVAL OF THE WRITTEN ARTSC$44,350
SUNSHINE COAST COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$32,001
SUNSHINE COAST HOSPICE SOCIETYC$18,460
PENDER HARBOUR & DISTRICT HEALTH CENTRE SOCIETYC$13,770
PENDER HARBOUR FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$13,595
SUNSHINE COAST SCHOOL DISTRICT #46C$11,590
SECHELT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SOCIETYC$10,370
SUNSHINE COAST SALMONID ENHANCEMENT SOCIETYC$10,038
PENDER HARBOUR READING CENTRE SOCIETYC$10,000
SUNSHINE COAST MARINE RESCUE SOCIETY (RCMSAR 12)C$10,000
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROGRAM OF THE SUNSHINE COASTC$10,000
BC CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$10,000
KIDSPORT SUNSHINE COASTC$8,567
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF SARGEANT BAYC$8,380
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.3M · 51 repeat orgsC$173k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
32

Total granted

C$2.3M
C$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+32%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$24k 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

  • SC
    SUNSHINE COAST COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$437k · revenue +66%
  • SC
    SUNSHINE COAST FESTIVAL OF THE WRITTEN ARTS
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$224k · revenue +48%
  • SC
    SUNSHINE COAST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$153k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • SC
    SUNSHINE COAST REGIONAL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · C$15k
  • RC
    Rotary Club of Sechelt Foundaation
    one grant, 2017 · C$13k · revenue -96% · 99% of their budget
  • RC
    ROBERTS CREEK CHILDCARE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$11k · revenue +51%

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
Sunshine Coast Charitable Housing Society

Support affordable housing initiatives on the lower sunshine coast bc

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2
Salmon Coast Society

Salmon coast supports innovative research public education community outreach and ecosystem awareness to achieve lasting conservation measures for the lands and waters of the broughton archipelago and surrounding areas by: - helping…

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3
Salish Sea Marine Rescue Society

The Society provides marine Search and Rescue services to the communities surrounding Pender Island including Galiano Mayne and Saturna Islands

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4
Sunshine Coast Foundation

We support charitable endeavours on the sunshine coast by building endowments and making grants to qualified donees within the community. we provide community leadership by facilitating discussions providing information and assisting the…

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5
Peninsula Streams Society

The purposes of the society are to organize and participate in environmental projects and programs on the saanich peninsula and surrounding areas that will: monitor preserve and restore flora and fauna. monitor preserve and restore rivers…

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6
Saanich Peninsula Arts & Crafts Society
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7
Seachange Marine Conservation Society

Marine restoration; cultural restoration; native plant restoration; public education; habitat mapping; educational programs; species recovery; shorezone coastal mapping; marine debris removal

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8
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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9
Rugged Coast Research Society

Research restoration and education of marine environments

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10
Silver Harbour Seniors' Activity Centre Society

Silver harbour seniors' activity centre's mission is to help seniors thrive by offering a wide range of programs services and connections. we offer more than 70 recreational programs and services for local seniors.

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11
The Pender Islands Museum Society

The Pender Islands Museum Society operates a small museum located on North Pender Island within the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. The museum which focuses on local history is open to the public on a published schedule or by request.…

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12
Sunset Housing Society

To provide low income housing to senior citizens of british columbia

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sunshine Coast Arts Council and the most unlike its peers is Capilano University. 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

73 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. 73 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
54/73
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 budgetSUNSHINE COAST COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$436,885 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST FESTIVAL OF THE WRITTEN ARTS — C$224,119 over 8y, 17% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY — C$153,187 over 7y, 13% of budgetSunshine Coast Hospice Society — C$131,476 over 8y, 12% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST ARTS COUNCIL — C$111,043 over 8y, 29% of budgetSchool District 46 — C$85,583 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPender Harbour & District Health Centre Society — C$76,396 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSECHELT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SOCIETY — C$74,124 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetNEW MARKET FUNDS SOCIETY — C$67,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST SALMONID ENCHANCEMENT SOCIETY — C$62,091 over 5y, 14% of budgetPENDER HARBOUR & DISTRICT HEALTH CENTRE — C$56,079 over 3y, 31% of budgetBC CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$42,605 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST MARINE RESCUE SOCIETY (RCMSAR 12) — C$41,741 over 7y, 12% of budgetPENDER HARBOUR FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$37,543 over 4y, 24% of budgetParish of St. Aidan and St. Bartholomew Gibsons — C$34,993 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetSECHELT INDIAN BAND — C$29,023 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSunshine Coast Conversation Associationo — C$27,035 over 3y, 22% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY SUNSHINE COAST MINISTRIES — C$26,406 over 4y, 96% of budgetGIBSONS MARINE EDUCATION CENTRE SOCIETY — C$23,823 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSECHELT SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTRE SOCIETY — C$23,335 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetGIBSONS PUBLIC ART GALLERY — C$18,950 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF BC — C$18,295 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION — C$16,840 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN FEDERATION UNIVERSITY WOMEN BURSARY SOCIETY — C$16,710 over 4y, 59% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CANADA CHRISTENSON VILLAGE — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARROWHEAD CLUBHOUSE SOCIETY — C$14,601 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetGIBSONS LANDING HERITAGE SOCIETY — C$14,527 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF SARGEANT BAY — C$14,239 over 7y, 33% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST DANCE SOCIETY — C$13,630 over 5y, 62% of budgetRotary Club of Sechelt Foundaation — C$13,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetOne Straw Society — C$12,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOAST RECITAL SOCIETY — C$11,380 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTRE OF BC — C$11,015 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST DRIFTWOOD PLAYERS SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPENDER HARBOUR READING CENTRE SOCIETY — C$10,693 over 2y, 39% of budgetROBERTS CREEK CHILDCARE SOCIETY — C$10,650 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGambier Island Community Association — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetRESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROGRAM OF THE SUNSHINE COAST — C$10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetBC SPCA SUNSHINE COAST BRANCH — C$9,301 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSechelt Public Library — C$9,158 over 2y, 29% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN MARINE SEARCH & RESCUE STATION 61 — C$8,716 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSC Museum & Archives — C$8,228 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetGIBSONS & DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$7,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST FESTIVAL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS — C$7,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$7,425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF GIBSONS — C$7,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPENDER HARBOUR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION — C$6,800 over 1y, 52% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING — C$6,650 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.

Baris Charitable Foun…Sunshine Coast Health…West Vancouver Commun…Ocean Wise Conservati…Pacific Salmon Founda…Living Faith Lutheran…Nicola Wealth Private…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Vancouver FoundationVancity Community Fou…Food Banks British Co…Sunshine Coast Commun…
Baris Charitable FoundationBC13.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baris Charitable Foundation · Sunshine Coast Healthcare Auxiliary Society · West Vancouver Community Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifique · Living Faith Lutheran Church the Sunshine Coast Sechelt B. C. · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Food Banks British Columbia · Sunshine Coast Community Services Society

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 896086105:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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