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Victoria, BC · Private foundation

Sutherland Foundation Inc

Donations to charities - see form t1236 for a list of qualified donees

C$400k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$50k
  • C$10k–50k20 grants · C$300k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$10,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMY PENTICTON CORPSC$42,000
HOPE AIRC$20,000
ABOUTFACE CRANIOFACIAL FAMILY SOCIETYC$15,000
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION B.C. DIVISIONC$15,000
TAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$15,000
TURNING POINT RECOVERY FOUNDATIONC$15,000
PACIFICA TREATMENT CENTRE SOCIETYC$15,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA GUIDE DOG SERVICEC$15,000
LOOKOUT FOUNDATIONC$15,000
KELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$15,000
BROADMEAD CARE SOCIETYC$15,000
THE KETTLE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETYC$15,000
CANADIAN RUGBY UNIONC$15,000
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$13,000
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$3.2M · 48 repeat orgsC$641k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
41

Total granted

C$3.2M
C$576k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+20%

Still filing today

96%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$65k 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

  • BC
    BC CANCER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$590k · revenue +64%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY VANCOUVER HARBOUR LIGHT CORPS AND TREATME
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$302k · revenue +341%
  • TK
    THE KETTLE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$210k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$85k · revenue +141%
  • PC
    PACIFIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$30k · revenue +43%
  • VC
    VERNON COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +18%

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
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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2
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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3
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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4
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

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…

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5
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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6
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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7
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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8
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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9
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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10
Vancouver Island Health Authority

Island health plans and delivers health care services to the residents of vancouver island in the province of british columbia. health care services include but are not limited to acute care long-term care home support addictions mental…

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11
Variety - the Children's Charity of Bc

Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations. Variety funds renovations equipment…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Place Society and the most unlike its peers is One Way Club. 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

92 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. 92 of the 97 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/92
Grantees still filing
69/92
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 budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$590,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY VANCOUVER HARBOUR LIGHT CORPS AND TREATME — C$302,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetTHE KETTLE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$210,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTURNING POINT RECOVERY FOUNDATION — C$155,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetSOUTH OKANAGAN SIMILKAMEEN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDRENS HOSPICE — C$145,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOKANAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — C$110,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetABOUTFACE CRAIOFACIAL FAMILY SOCIETY — C$105,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$104,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA GUIDE DOG SERVICE — C$90,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$85,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRED CROSS — C$83,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARING AND SPEECH CENTRE OF BC INC — C$80,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$78,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSILVER HARBOUR SENIORS' ACTIVITY CENTRE SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetPACIFICA TREATMENT CENTRE SOCIETY — C$70,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOUR PLACE SOCIETY — C$57,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION B.C. DIVISION — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOOKOUT FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED — C$48,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUMBRELLA SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBABY GO ROUND — C$40,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCCA COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERNON COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPACIFIC AUTISM CENTRE — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN NEUROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF B.C. — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROADMEAD CARE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE RIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER VICTORIA ELDERCARE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetKOOTENAY BOUNDARY REGIONAL HOSPITAL AND HEALTH — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetREGISTERED NURSES FOUNDATION OF BC — C$21,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetTHE YMCA OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPTIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZAJAC RANCH — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF BC — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE ARCH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIABETES CANADA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY LODGE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVERNON AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS — C$13,000 over 3y, 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.

Lohn FoundationThe Hamber FoundationFirst West FoundationMr. and Mrs. P.A. Woo…Bc Government Employe…Vancity Community Fou…Al Roadburg FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Loyal Protestant Asso…
Lohn FoundationBC28.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lohn Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · First West Foundation · Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woodward's Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · Al Roadburg Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Loyal Protestant Association

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 97 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 2024-04-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 119206910:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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