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Port Alberni, BC · Public foundation

The Alberni Valley Community Foundation

Raising funds for an endowment fund for which the charity earns income and distributes the income to various local societies and other organizations that are in need raising funds for the homelessness concerns in the valley

C$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$38k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$170k
C$4,208
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alberni Drug & Alcohol Prevention Services SocietyC$40,000
Port Alberni Backpack Program SocietyC$38,000
Alberni Valley Hospice SocietyC$21,500
Wholesome Meals on Wheels Assoc of Port AlberniC$20,000
Kuu-us Crisis Line SocietyC$20,000
Port Alberni Family Guidance AssociationC$20,000
WVI Industrial Heritage Soc GrantC$10,106
Alberni Valley Neighbourhood Link SocietyC$7,000
PORTAL PLAYERS DRAMATIC SOCIETYC$5,000
Port Alberni Maritime Rescue SocietyC$4,738
Alb. Dist Historical Soc. GrantC$4,208
LITERACY ALBERNI SOCIETYC$4,000
Meals on WheelsC$3,271
SAGE HAVEN SOCIETYC$2,452
Alberni Valley United ChurchC$1,978
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$569k · 27 repeat orgsC$60k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
16

Total granted

C$569k
C$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+26%

Still filing today

96%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$21k 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

  • SH
    SAGE HAVEN SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$115k · revenue +97%
  • PA
    PORT ALBERNI ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENT
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$77k · revenue +66%
  • AD
    Alberni Drug & Alcohol Prevention Services Society
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$43k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • K
    KIDSPORT
    one grant, 2022 · C$4k
  • BC
    BEAVER CREEK COMMUNITY CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k
  • AV
    ALBERNI VALLEY COMMUNITY LIVING ASSOCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +26%

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
Alberni Valley Crime Stoppers Society
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2
The Port Alberni Youth Centre Society
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3
Alberni Valley Rescue Squad

The Alberni Valley Rescue Squad contributes to the enhancement of public safety through volunteer engagement in emergency services and emergency preparedness. The Squad has been serving the city of Port Alberni and Albemi-Clayoquot region…

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4
Alberni Valley Childcare Society

Alberni Valley Childcare Society provides childcare to the Alberni Valley. They operate three sites and programs for infants toddlers ages 3-5 and before/after school care

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5
Alternate Shelter Society

Alternate shelter society provides residential and support services to a population

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6
The Alberni Valley Community Foundation

Raising funds for an endowment fund for which the charity earns income and distributes the income to various local societies and other organizations that are in need raising funds for the homelessness concerns in the valley

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7
Ability Society of Alberta

Programs including information training and access to technology to support children and adults with special needs; building community and social change through volunteerism; operating a seniors home and retail store to further build a…

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8
Southern Alcare Society and Industries

Recovery services for adults addicted to substances.

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9
People for a Healthy Community On Gabriola Society

We are a community based not for profit organization serving Gabriola Island. We support individuals and families during vulnerable times in their lives while strengthening community resilience. Vulnerability can occur at any stage of life…

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10
Pacifica Housing Advisory Association

We provide low cost rental accomodations for low income and difficult to house individuals. this includes helpin to provide housing for people with mental illness and a variety of other difficulties. we also offer support programs to…

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11
Port Coquitlam Senior Citizens Housing Society

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…

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12
Nanaimo District Senior Citizens' Housing Development Society

The society provides low cost residential accommodation and a health care facility in nanaimo bc. including operation of 2 buildings with 30 and 45 subsidized units respectively. operation of a 75-bed multi-level care facility operation of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Port Alberni Friendship Center and the most unlike its peers is Portal Players Dramatic Society. 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 45 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAGE HAVEN SOCIETY — C$115,107 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetPORT ALBERNI ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENT — C$76,978 over 3y, 13% of budgetAlberni Drug & Alcohol Prevention Services Society — C$43,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPort Alberni Backpack Program Society — C$41,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetWVI Industrial Heritage Soc Grant — C$35,555 over 7y, 96% of budgetAlberni Valley Hospice Society — C$27,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWholesome Meals on Wheels Assoc of Port Alberni — C$26,771 over 2y, 42% of budgetPort Alberni Family Guidance Association — C$25,500 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$25,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetAV COMMUNITY SCHOOL — C$20,565 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKuu-us Crisis Line Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ART COUNCIL OF THE ALBERNI VALLEY — C$16,525 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetPORT ALBER SHELTER SOCIETY — C$15,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAlberni Valley Neighbourhood Link Society — C$14,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE — C$13,650 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetPORTAL PLAYERS DRAMATIC SOCIETY — C$12,700 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE PORT ALBERNI MARITIME HERITAGE SOCIETY — C$9,738 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetABBEYFIELD — C$8,622 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CANADA — C$7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY ALBERNI SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOAP FOR HOPE CANADA SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALBERNI VALLEY ASSISTED LIVING SOCIETY — C$4,680 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALBERNI VALLEY UNITED CHURCH — C$4,591 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$3,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA - PORT ALBERNI BRANCH — C$3,330 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALBERNI VALLEY COMMUNITY LIVING ASSOC — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY CHURCH — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPORT ALBER SHELTER SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIC - PA Campus Grant — C$2,975 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTROKE RECOVERY ASS'N — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCNIB — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTHAVEN - ISLAND HEALTH — C$2,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetPort Alberni Friendship Centre — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlberni Athletic Association — C$1,850 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetPORT ALBERNI MARINE RESCUE SOCIETY — C$1,337 over 1y, 4.1% 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 Central an…Loaves and Fishes Com…Bc Government Employe…The Victoria Foundati…Alberni Valley United…Alberni Valley Christ…The Hamber FoundationRight To FoodUnited Way British Co…Community Foundations…Vancouver FoundationVancity Community Fou…
United Way Central and Northern Vancouver IslandBC12.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Victoria Foundation · Alberni Valley United Church · Alberni Valley Christian Reformed Church · The Hamber Foundation · Right To Food · United Way British Columbia · Community Foundations of Canada · Vancouver Foundation · Vancity Community 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 45 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 892601246:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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