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The Cedrus Foundation

The foundation was formed in 2019 and it provides funding for qualified donees with charitable purposes generally and facilitating charitable purposes in the field of education religion health relief of poverty amateur athletics and social and community welfare including arts animal rights protection and advocacy human right…

C$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$15,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNICEF CANADAC$30,000
YWCA OF METRO VANCOUVERC$30,000
MULTILINGUAL ORIENTATION SERVICE FOR IMMIGRANT (MOSIAC)C$20,000
YWCA OF CANADAC$15,000
WEST COAST LEAFC$15,000
MOOSE HIDE CAMPAIGNC$10,000
SALEEMA NOON EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATIONC$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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$415k · 10 repeat orgsC$55k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

C$415k
C$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • YO
    YWCA OF METRO VANCOUVER
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$169k · revenue +89%
  • UC
    UNICEF CANADA
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$85k · revenue +14%
  • MO
    MULTILINGUAL ORIENTATION SERVICE FOR IMMIGRANT (MOSIAC)
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$40k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • MO
    MULTILINGUAL ORIENTATION SERVICE FOR IMMIGRANT (MOSAIC)
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k
  • R(
    RAVEN (RESPECTING ABORIGINAL VALUES & ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS)graduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +25%
  • WR
    WAVAW RAPE CRISIS CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +30%

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
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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2
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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3
Ending Violence Association of British Columbia

We provide support and training to almost 300 anti-violence programs across BC that respond to sexual and intimate partner violence child abuse and criminal harassment. We work to increase the coordination of services for survivors in the…

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4
Foundation for Gender Equality in Health and Wellbeing

The Foundation provided grants to registered charities that seek to advance gender equality through public educational programs and social services.

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5
Fora: Network for Change

Fora: network for change is global network of young feminist changemakers. through our governance programming leadership development social impact initiatives and feminist research we make bold strategic investments in young women and…

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6
Save the Children Canada/Aide À L'enfance Canada

Save the Children Canada implemented programs focused on empowering girls and boys to fulfill their rights ensuring every last child has an equal opportunity to survive learn and be protected. This work included programs in health…

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7
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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8
Vancouver Status of Women

Vancouver Status of Women's ongoing work focuses on feminist community building with women and gender diverse peoples towards equity in social political and economic spheres. The Coordinating Collective provides ongoing support to…

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9
Healthy Youth Network

What's your path - helping young people refine their skills passions & interests in order to develop a path for the future based on their priorities and goals. ally program - this youth-led ally program that creates systemic change is…

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10
Minerva Foundation for Bc Women

Rise and shine program - provides participants with the opportunity to develop key mental and emotional wellness skills through interactive workshops ( youth program ); closing the gender pay gap project - a 33-month systematic change…

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11
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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12
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moose Hide Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Music Heals Charitable Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 16 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYWCA OF METRO VANCOUVER — C$168,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMULTILINGUAL ORIENTATION SERVICE FOR IMMIGRANT (MOSIAC) — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOOSE HIDE CAMPAIGN — C$35,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetSALEEMA NOON EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetTHE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEQUALITY FUND — C$17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEST COAST LEAF — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYORK HOUSE SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$9,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAVEN (RESPECTING ABORIGINAL VALUES & ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS) — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAVAW RAPE CRISIS CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAVID SUZULO FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC HEALS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$4,500 over 2y, 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Vancity Community Fou…Bc Government Employe…United Way British Co…Makeway FoundationVancouver FoundationZlc FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…Aqueduct FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Private Giving Founda…Charitable Gift Funds…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC9.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way British Columbia · Makeway Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Zlc Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 16 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 796016335:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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