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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Barraclough Foundation

Providing funds for charitable purposes especially in the areas of the arts health and nature.

C$821k
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
2
Regions reached
C$792k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$29k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$792k
C$2,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AQUEDUCT FOUNDATIONC$792,000
VICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSICC$4,000
G.I. CENTRE ECOLOGICAL LEARNINGC$3,500
NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF CANADAC$3,000
RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$2,500
BC GUIDE DOGS SERVICESC$2,500
BC SPCA - WILD ANIMAL REHABC$2,500
VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONC$2,000
MAYNE ISLAND CONSERVANCY SOCIETYC$2,000
THE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLINDC$2,000
VICTORIA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATIONC$2,000
THE BELFRY THEATRE SOCIETYC$1,500
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL EDUCATIONAL SOCIETYC$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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$136k · 12 repeat orgsC$794k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

C$136k
C$794k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$794k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
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

  • VC
    VICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$20k · revenue +23%
  • GC
    G.I. CENTRE ECOLOGICAL LEARNING
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$18k · revenue +37% · 90% of their budget
  • BG
    BC GUIDE DOGS SERVICES
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$13k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • AF
    AQUEDUCT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$792k · revenue -45%
  • VH
    VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue +14%

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
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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2
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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3
Victoria Humane Society

The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…

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4
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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5
Vancouver Island Symphony

Presents a series of concerts in the Central Vancouver Island Area. These include children's educational concerts. The goal of this charity is to create growth and appreciation of symphonic music.

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6
Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society

This is Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society's (VAMMR) first year of operations as a registered charity and is a global leader in marine mammal rescue research and rehabilitation. VAMMR responds to over 300 marine mammal…

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7
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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8
Comox Valley Land Trust

The Comox Valley Land Trust has three programs: 1. Land Protection Program and 2. Comox Valley Conservation Partnership and 3. Conservation Science Program . The Land Protection Program protects and stewards lands of ecological…

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9
The British Columbia Conservation Foundation

Land for wildlife: make financial contributions to land acquisitions; wildsafebc: provides public awareness to reduce human/wildlife conflict; wildlife collision prevention program: provides public awareness to prevent wildlife/vehicle…

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10
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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11
Victoria Summer Music Festival Society

The Victoria Summer Music Festival (VSMF) brings local Canadian and international musicians to Victoria to perform high-calibre chamber music. In 2024 the VSMF presented five evening concerts and one afternoon concert during July and…

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12
The Nature Trust of British Columbia

The Nature Trust of British Columbia acquires land through purchase and donation for the purpose of conserving natural habitat. The Trust also actively manages the land through habitat restoration and conservation projects. Much of our…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victoria Conservatory of Music and the most unlike its peers is National Youth Orchestra Association of Canada. 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

14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
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 budgetAQUEDUCT FOUNDATION — C$792,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetG.I. CENTRE ECOLOGICAL LEARNING — C$17,500 over 5y, 90% of budgetNATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBC GUIDE DOGS SERVICES — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBC SPCA - WILD ANIMAL REHAB — C$11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAYNE ISLAND CONSERVANCY SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BELFRY THEATRE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEARLY MUSIC SOCIETY OF THE ISLANDS — C$4,100 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$2,000 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.

The Victoria Foundati…Bc Government Employe…Aqueduct FoundationCharlton L Smith Char…Vancouver FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…The Hamber FoundationRaymond James Canada …The McLean FoundationBenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …United Way British Co…
The Victoria FoundationBC11.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Aqueduct Foundation · Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The McLean Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia

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 14 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 2021-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2022) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 138984315:2021-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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