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The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation

THE CANFOR GOOD THINGS COME FROM TREES FOUNDATION supports community investments and scholarships that are aligned with the priority giving areas of education heatlh sustainability and community supports opportunities that are of significant importance to the community and that benefit the greatest number of people and are significant…

C$860k
Granted FY2024still arriving
182
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 182 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k162 grants · C$322k
  • C$10k–50k18 grants · C$288k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$250k
C$1,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIAC$150,000
VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
THE HOME DEPOT CANADA FOUNDATIONC$35,000
CAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - 6190 AGRC$25,000
CHING TIEN FOUNDATION FOR WOMENC$20,000
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY/ART RENTC$20,000
UNBC - UNBC-3333 UNIVC$20,000
THE EXPLORATION PLACEC$20,000
UNITED WAY ALBERTA NORTHWESTC$15,000
NEW RELATIONSHIP TRUST FOUNDATIONC$13,200
HOUSTON COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
SKILLS CANADA ALBERTAC$10,000
ALEXIS NAKOTA SIOUX NATIONC$10,000
KTUNAXA NATION COUNCIL SOCIETYC$10,000
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$855k · 26 repeat orgsC$604k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 111 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
34

Total granted

C$855k
C$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$356k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • VV
    VGH&UBC - VAN-DONATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$210k · revenue +9%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - 6190 AGR
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$67k · revenue +8%
  • UU
    UNBC - UNBC-3333 UNIV
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$56k · revenue ×1,053 · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA
    one grant, 2023 · C$38k · revenue 0%
  • CU
    CAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +6%

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.

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Nutritionlink Services Society

Nutritionlink services society (nls) promotes and enhances eating choices for people and communities in british columbia. nls works in collaboration with others to enhance individuals' ability to make healthy food choices. nls supports the…

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2
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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3
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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4
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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5
Engineering and Geoscience Education Foundation Bc

Provide scholarships and bursaries to post-secondary students in the study of engineering of geoscience

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6
4-H British Columbia Foundation

4-h club memberships scholarships

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7
Camosun College Foundation

The Foundation assists Camosun College to expand and enhance its educational programs or services not funded by government including financial aid to students at Camosun College. The Foundation provides an opportunity for individual…

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8
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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9
Food Banks British Columbia

Providing community food bank with the support and resources necessery to enable them to accept store and distribute donations of fresh nutritious produce protein dairy etc to those enduring hunger and food insecurity across the province…

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10
Columbia Valley Food Bank

Volunteers distribute food hampers to help feed senior adults families and children. - Funding for Food Learning Programs and Health Eating Programs for Grade School and Early Learning centers. - Provide emergency food hampers in crisis…

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11
Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland

Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…

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12
Registered Nurses Foundation of B.C.

Registered nurses foundation of b.c. raises money for busaries for students enrolled in basic post-basic refresher specialty and graduate education programs in nursing or involved in nursing research in their education (i.e. master's or…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Mayerthorpe Baptist Church. 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

84 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. 84 of the 171 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/84
Grantees still filing
35/84
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 budgetVGH&UBC - VAN-DONATION — C$210,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$183,575 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - 6190 AGR — C$66,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNBC - UNBC-3333 UNIV — C$56,250 over 2y, 26% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY-GRANDE PRARIE — C$47,500 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHING TIEN FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN — C$40,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$37,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE HOME DEPOT CANADA FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW RELATIONSHIP TRUST FOUNDATION — C$26,400 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ROCKIES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF JEW CALEDONIA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNIC — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$23,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPLUNGE FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE EXPLORATION PLACE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY ALBERTA NORTHWEST — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PRINCE GEORGE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPIRIT OF THE NORTH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$14,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRESTON VALLEY GLEANERS SOCIETY — C$13,384 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPARKLAND FOOD BANK — C$12,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$11,100 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetHOUSTON SECONDARY SCHOOL — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS BUREAU OF COLUMBIA V — C$10,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNAIT - ED-11762-106 — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSKILLS CANADA ALBERTA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTUART LAKE OUTREACH GROUP SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY LUNCH BOX SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE BC — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST LEGACY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSOARING EAGLE SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBCIT FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD STASH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCRANKBROOK FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY ALBERTA CAPITAL REGION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTRE — C$7,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE YOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE EARTH RANGERS FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT ST JOHN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBOURLINK FOOD BANK — C$6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION OF BC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE COUNCIL OF SENIORS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFORT ST. JOHN & AREA SENIORS CARE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetREAPS/RECYCLING & ENVIRO. ACTI — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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 of Norther…The Western Communiti…The Prince George Com…Northwestern Alberta …Bc Government Employe…Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Novak Family Foundati…Credit Union Foundati…Telus Employees Chari…Central Okanagan Burs…The Kpmg Foundation/L…
United Way of Northern British ColumbiaBC18.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Northern British Columbia · The Western Communities Foundation · The Prince George Community Foundation · Northwestern Alberta Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Novak Family Foundation · Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg

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 171 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 783841901:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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