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Fanny Bay, BC · Private foundation

The Illahie Foundation

Gifts to support initiatives that effect meaningful sustained social change by altering structural or systemic factors at the heart of such problems as poverty spousal and family violence housing substance abuse and environment degradation.

C$236k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$37k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k25 grants · C$54k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$182k
C$2,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKEWAY FOUNDATIONC$37,000
PACIFIC REGION INTERNATIONAL SUMMER MUSIC ASSOCIATIONC$35,000
POWELL RIVER MIKLAT RECOVERY HOUSE SOCIETYC$25,000
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCHC$25,000
Individual grant recipientC$20,000
SALT SPRING INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITYC$20,000
CAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES - BCC$10,000
CORTES COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$10,000
ECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETYC$8,000
CHIEF JOE MATHIAS ABORIGINAL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDC$6,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CA MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES CAC$6,000
WORLD OUTREACH COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETYC$3,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$3,000
ECOTRUST CANADAC$3,000
SUNSHINE COAST COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$2,000
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.4M · 31 repeat orgsC$302k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
20

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$214k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$88k 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

  • VF
    VANCOUVER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$517k · revenue +471%
  • TC
    Tides Canada Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$210k · revenue +70%
  • PR
    PACIFIC REGION INTERNATIONAL SUMMER MUSIC ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$105k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • PR
    POWELL RIVER REGIONAL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · C$105k
  • VO
    VANCOUVER OPERA
    one grant, 2020 · C$35k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · C$12k

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
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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2
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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3
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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4
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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5
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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6
Pacific Wild Alliance

1. save bc wolves - our goal is to ensure that wolves have adequate habitat to continue their critical role as a keystone species. 2. protect pacific herring - we are working with central coast communities to highlight the importance of…

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7
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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8
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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9
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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10
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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11
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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12
Georgia Strait Alliance

Public Engagement – increasing the understanding of the importance of the health of Georgia Strait as a regional ecosystem and providing individuals and communities with the tools to take local and regional action to improve the health of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is Polity Research 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

52 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. 52 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
38/52
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 budgetVANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$517,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTides Canada Foundation — C$209,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC REGION INTERNATIONAL SUMMER MUSIC ASSOCIATION — C$105,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetVancouver Opera — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetI-SEA — C$70,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE PIVOT FOUNDATION — C$59,100 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetBC Women's & children's Hospital — C$57,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES - BC — C$43,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEcotrust Canada — C$37,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA — C$31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHIEF MATTHIAS ABORIGINAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND — C$31,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY — C$28,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBCCLA — C$26,350 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES — C$26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOWELL RIVER MIKLAT RECOVERY HOUSE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sisters of BC — C$21,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBC Children's Hospital — C$19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLawyer's Rights Watch (Legal Research) Canada — C$13,100 over 8y, 14% of budgetTHE ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWATERSHED WATCH SALMON SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCORTES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART — C$9,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHope Air — C$9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD OUTREACH COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetQQS (EYES) PROJECTS SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFaculty of Health Science, SFU — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN COASTAL RESEARCH SOCIETY - WILD FIRST SONORA FUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Humane Society International — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPacific Wildlife Foundation - Birds for Peace — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNEIL SQUIRE SOCIETY — C$4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBATTERED WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES SOC. — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSaint James Music Academy — C$3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$3,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMICS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$2,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPOWELL RIVER FOOD BANK — C$2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING BUDDIES NETWORK OF LOWER MAINLAND SOC — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetE-DEMOCRAT RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetKAMLOOPS FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKALI'S WISH FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOWICHAN VALLEY BASKET SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVCH - Hematology Research Program — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY FUND — C$1,000 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.

Makeway FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Vancity Community Fou…The Victoria Foundati…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…The McLean FoundationThe Hamber FoundationThe Trottier Family F…Jewish Federation of …North Family Foundati…The Sitka Foundation
Makeway FoundationBC17.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The McLean Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · North Family Foundation · The Sitka Foundation

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 60 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 891805574:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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