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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The McLean McCuaig Foundation

Donations provided to registered charities for the purpose of providing education and community services at all levels and encourage charitable organizations especially those oriented towards children who do not receive support from government or any other source of public funds.

C$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$21k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$155k
C$5,250
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATIONC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF B.C.C$54,500
WHISTLER INSTITUTEC$25,000
THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS OF CANADA FOUNATIONC$20,000
CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERYC$10,000
MUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$5,250
CLICK - CONTRIBUTING TO LIVES OF INNER CITY KIDS SOCIETYC$5,000
CITY IN FOCUS FOUNDATIONC$5,000
COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$1,000
HOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESSC$500
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 12 repeat orgsC$233k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
29

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k 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

  • UO
    University of BC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$549k · revenue +55%
  • RR
    ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$150k · revenue +267%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$125k · revenue +191%

Funded once

  • CP
    CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +13%
  • WP
    WEST POINT GREY ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k
  • TG
    THUNDERBIRD GOLF SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k · revenue -33%

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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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
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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3
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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4
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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5
Vancouver Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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6
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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7
Langara College Foundation

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

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8
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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9
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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10
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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11
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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12
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Home Care Foundation of Bc and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Alberta. 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

46 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. 46 of the 47 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of BC — C$549,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY — C$150,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION — C$125,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTRANS CANADA TRAIL FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWEST POINT GREY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL — C$98,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSeaforth Highlanders of Canada Foundation — C$45,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCITY IN FOCUS -CHRISTIAN LEADERS FOUNDATION — C$40,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHISTLER INSTITUTE — C$25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$22,750 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD GOLF SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSIERRA CLUB BC — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL — C$12,754 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHuntington Society of Canada — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWest Point Grey United Church — C$11,016 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION — C$10,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN COASTAL RESEARCH SOCEITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPACIFIC BALLET BC SOCEITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATURE TRUST BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrizzley Bear Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBCSPCA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$5,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLICK - CONTRIBUTING TO LIVES OF INNER CITY KIDS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDucks Unlimited Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalvation Army — C$1,800 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER NATIVE HEALTH SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURNABY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH & HOME CARE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSACRED HEART PARISH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CASCADIA SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL WORKING — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATHLETICS 4 KIDS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST PAULS FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S PLACE — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESS — C$500 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.

Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Armstrong Family Foun…The Highbury Foundati…Diamond FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…The Rennie FoundationPeter & Joanne Brown …Makeway Foundation
Zlc FoundationBC19.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Armstrong Family Foundation · The Highbury Foundation · Diamond Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · The Rennie Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · Makeway 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 47 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 advancing education.

Source object 119244762:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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