Montreal, QC · Private foundation
The Ardea Foundation
The foundation began its giving program in 2010 concentrating on public health animal welfare and nature and wildlife promotion.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k9 grants · C$40k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BC SPCA | C$10,000 |
| CONNECTIVE SUPPORT SOCIETY | C$10,000 |
| FRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE | C$6,000 |
| CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY | C$6,000 |
| UNITED WAY CALGARY | C$6,000 |
| THE BOUNDLESS SCHOOL | C$6,000 |
| MOMENTUM | C$6,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | C$2,500 |
| ISLAND CRISIS CARE SOCIETY | C$2,500 |
| HAVEN SOCIETY | C$2,500 |
| CANADIAN ANIMAL ASSISTANCE TEAM | C$2,500 |
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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$13k went to new ones.
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
- BSBC SPCA8× · 2017–2024 · C$92k · revenue +82%
- HPHELPING PAWS5× · 2018–2023 · C$40k · revenue +39%
- CCCHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY7× · 2018–2024 · C$39k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDRENS COTTAGE SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · C$5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · C$5k
- DHDISCOVERY HOUSEone grant, 2017 · C$5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…
Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…
Cwav society provides client-centered safety shelter counselling and advocacy in support of individual family and community well-being. ongoing programs include somenos transition house women's night shelter homelessness prevention program…
Options community services offers programs in surrey delta cloverdale white rock and langley. the society's fraser health crisis line serves the entire fraser health region from tri-cites to boston bar. options provides programs in many…
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…
CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…
The mission of the Society is to Protect Animals. Support People. Create A More Humane World. The Society offers services to the Calgary and surrounding areas in the sheltering and care of animals adoptions protection and investigation and…
The society provides support to and enhance the capacity of organizations in bc that serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness. the society provides training to front line shelter workers throughout the province. there are…
Phs community services society provides housing healthcare and harm reduction for some of the most vulnerable and at risk individuals in vancouver and victoria. our ongoing programs include: a low barrier credit union a community dental…
Geared access program (gap)-this is an outreach program for individuals with mental illness. the focus is crisis prevention and intervention support counselling addiction advocacy and referral to other needed supports as appropriate.…
Luna’s purpose is to ensure children youth and families impacted by child abuse receive the support they need to heal; to hold offenders accountable; and to build engaged communities where everyone plays a role in preventing abuse so that…
Services and Housing In the Province (SHIP) is a community based agency providing a spectrum of low to high intensity housing and support services through a variety of programs. Support services include supportive counselling intensive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Calgary and Area and the most unlike its peers is Ucluelet Aquarium Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 27 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BC SPCA ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAWS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BOUNDLESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY CALGARY ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN ANIMAL ASSISTANCE TEAM ↗
- Who funds THE ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds CUPS ↗
- Who funds FRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIVE SUPPORT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HAVEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds Canadian Red Cross ↗
- Who funds ISLAND CRISIS CARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLUELET AQUARIUM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: First West Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Nanaimo Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · The Calgary Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Canada Gives · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur
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.