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Victoria, BC · Public foundation

The Bishop of Victoria

Religious services several times a week pastoral care to members of the parish donation of funds to denominational headquarters for national an international missionary activities

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
109
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$222k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 109 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k74 grants · C$240k
  • C$10k–50k28 grants · C$512k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$754k
C$4,970
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Catholic Independent Schools of the Diocese of VictoriaC$222,116
St Edwards and MissionsC$129,096
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY CHURCHC$124,350
St Rose of Lima ParishC$78,707
Holy Trinity Catholic ChurchC$70,769
St Patrick's ParishC$67,629
Holy Family Church and MissionsC$61,556
Development and PeaceC$47,122
QUEEN OF ANGELS SCHOOLC$41,066
Holy Cross Catholic ChurchC$31,432
Port Hardy Catholic ChurchC$30,974
St Andrew's CathedralC$30,824
COWICHAN VALLEY BASKET SOCIETYC$24,775
Commissaraite de Terre Sainte au CanadaC$24,639
Individual grant recipientC$22,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$9.9M
Ontario
C$1.9M
Quebec
C$463k
New Brunswick
C$50k
Yukon
C$50k
Nova Scotia
C$13k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$5k
Northwest Territories
C$1k
Alberta
C$895

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12M · 65 repeat orgsC$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
45

Total granted

C$12M
C$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+8%

Still filing today

82%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$47k 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

  • CI
    CATHOLIC INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS OF THE DIOCESE OF VICTORIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.9M · revenue +19%
  • CD
    Commissaraite de Terre Sainte au Canada
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$224k · revenue +32%
  • AH
    ANAWIM HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$123k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • IR
    Indigenous Reconciliation Fund
    one grant, 2022 · C$1.3M · revenue +17% · 33% of their budget
  • AF
    Ahousaht First Nation
    one grant, 2022 · C$511k
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF MONCTON FOUNDATION INC.
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Vancouver

Provide emergency shelter throughout the year for indigent men of all ages. - provide linen and toiletries. - provide guests of the shelter with meals and meal tickets.

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2
The Order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in the Province of British Columbia

The Order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate is a world-wide Roman Catholic Canadian Congregation of Priests and brothers founded after the French Revolution in 1816 to work among the poor. The Canadian Congregation was formed in 1891. The…

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3
The Society of St. Vincent De Paul Vancouver Archdiocesan Central Council

The society operated one thrift store giveaway programs - clothing furniture and household goods to the destitute. distributes food and vouchers to the hungry. distributes hot food and beverages to areas where people are 'living on the…

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4
The Sisters of Charity of Providence in British Columbia
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5
The Society of Christ Fathers in Canada

The purpose of the organizations is to sustain and promote christianity and its religious charitable and educational works in accordance with the teaching of the roman catholic church in canada and elsewhere. the society is a community of…

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6
Franciscan Friars of Western Canada

Operate a franciscan chapel in roman catholic diocese of victoria house of prayer retired friars live in this facility

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7
The Old Catholic Church of B.C. & Society

Provide old catholic worship services during the week - administer the sacraments of the old catholic church of bc to their members and other christians of different denominations - give lodging for people in need - provide food for people…

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8
Catholic Street Missionaries Society

We develop young adults to reach out to the homeless prostituted and those suffering with addictions and mental illness. We support and accompany those who would like to start a new life off the street and off drugs. We provide emotional…

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9
Vicariate of Eastern Canada

Supporting civil food banks & faimly support (not by the church) relief to poor and homeless admin. for churches and missions

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10
Island Crisis Care Society

The society provides emergency shelter food and referrals for counseling and other services at multiple facilities in the mid-vancouver island region. supportive and transitional housing: samaritan place newcastle place orca place and…

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11
St. Charles Missions Support Inc.

Propagation of the roman catholic faith; promotion of spiritual education and the management of the temporal affairs and obligations of the roman catholic faith in canada. this is achieved by running/supporting of retreat & renewal centres…

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12
Victoria Community Resources Society

The charity promoted and developed community living arrangements that enable those who live with challenging needs to actualize their personal values and enjoy a consistent lifestyle. the charity operates two residences in victoria to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Society for the Propagation of the Faith for Canada Eng and the most unlike its peers is University of Victoria. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 117 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/89
Grantees still filing
57/89
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 budgetOur Lady of Grace Parish — C$5,365,172 over 8y, 38% of budgetCATHOLIC INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS OF THE DIOCESE OF VICTORIA — C$3,931,687 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetIndigenous Reconciliation Fund — C$1,250,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCommissaraite de Terre Sainte au Canada — C$223,782 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetANAWIM HOUSE — C$122,715 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetCANADIAN CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE — C$118,207 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetL'Arche Comox Valley — C$108,830 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetPropagation of the Faith — C$99,925 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetConcacon Inc. (CCCB) — C$91,474 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC MISSIONS OF CANADA — C$85,904 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetDiocese of Whitehorse — C$69,459 over 7y, 46% of budgetDominicans of Canada — C$62,145 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetFONDATIONS MISSIONS MARISTES — C$56,275 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL — C$56,087 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetARCHDIOCESE OF MONCTON FOUNDATION INC. — C$50,000 over 1y, 14% of budget9/10 Club Serving Soup to the Hungry — C$38,076 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE MARIE ESTHER SOCIETY — C$37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOWICHAN VALLEY BASKET SOCIETY — C$35,740 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN JESUIT MISSIONS — C$35,681 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAnglican Diocese of BC — C$34,292 over 5y, 23% of budgetCNEWA Canada — C$33,340 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH ISLAND CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND TRAINING — C$33,250 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetThe Missionaries of Africa — C$29,654 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetANAWIM HOUSE — C$25,531 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANTI SIDRA — C$22,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetAid to the Church in Need (Canada) Inc. — C$20,089 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto — C$16,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH AND SHARING FEDERATION FOI ET PARTAGE — C$16,200 over 5y, 68% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE MONASTERY — C$16,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBeacon Community Services — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGaglardi Academy — C$10,753 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMary's Meals — C$10,383 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCHALICE CANADA — C$10,357 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKackaamin Family Development Centre — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYouth For Christ — C$7,100 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCatholic Christian Outreach Canada Inc — C$6,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAANICH PENINSULA LIONS FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUmbrella Society for Addictions and Mental Health — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSTARD SEED FOOD BANK — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt. Mary's Church — C$5,166 over 5y, 38% of budgetSACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$4,465 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarillac Mission Fund — C$4,365 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTIMES COLONIST CHRISTMAS FUND SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHALOM MEDIA CANADA — C$3,922 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Father Roberts St. Benedict Charity — C$3,764 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetOUR PLACE SOCIETY — C$3,106 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM FOUNDATI — C$3,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

  • Who funds Our Lady of Grace Parish ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS OF THE DIOCESE OF VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds Indigenous Reconciliation Fund ↗
  • Who funds Commissaraite de Terre Sainte au Canada ↗
  • Who funds ANAWIM HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE ↗
  • Who funds L'Arche Comox Valley ↗
  • Who funds Propagation of the Faith ↗
  • Who funds Concacon Inc. (CCCB) ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MISSIONS OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Diocese of Whitehorse ↗
  • Who funds Dominicans of Canada ↗
  • Who funds FONDATIONS MISSIONS MARISTES ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
  • Who funds ARCHDIOCESE OF MONCTON FOUNDATION INC. ↗
  • Who funds 9/10 Club Serving Soup to the Hungry ↗
  • Who funds THE MARIE ESTHER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COWICHAN VALLEY BASKET SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE CANADIAN JESUIT MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds Anglican Diocese of BC ↗
  • Who funds CNEWA Canada ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH ISLAND CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND TRAINING ↗
  • Who funds The Missionaries of Africa ↗
  • Who funds ANAWIM HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds HANTI SIDRA ↗
  • Who funds Aid to the Church in Need (Canada) Inc. ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto ↗
  • Who funds FAITH AND SHARING FEDERATION FOI ET PARTAGE ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN OF PEACE MONASTERY ↗
  • Who funds Beacon Community Services ↗

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 Sisters of Saint …Anglican Synod of the…Roman Catholic Archbi…Sovereign Order of St…The Victoria Foundati…Roman Catholic Episco…The Roman Catholic Ep…Loaves and Fishes Com…First West FoundationUnited Way Central an…Times Colonist Christ…Order of St. Clare
The Sisters of Saint AnnBC26.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sisters of Saint Ann · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of Toronto in Canada · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society · First West Foundation · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · Times Colonist Christmas Fund Society · Order of St. Clare

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 117 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 advancing religion.

Source object 129950804:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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