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Richmond, BC · Private foundation

The Shields Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to gift funds to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of ita (canada).

C$528k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$135k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$375k
C$25,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION-CELLULAR IMMUNOLOGYC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA-LOW-FIELD MRI PROGRAMC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA-MS BASE SUPPORT ROLESC$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY-TRANSPLANT WELLNESS PROGRAMC$50,000
RENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICESC$50,000
S.S. MASTER SOCIETYC$35,000
PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATIONC$30,000
COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$25,000
MOM TO MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVE SOCIETYC$15,000
GREEN TEAMS OF CANADAC$10,000
FOOD STASH FOUNDATIONC$10,000
BRAIN TUMOUR FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$10,000
BABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETYC$7,500
VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION-MISCELLANEOUSC$5,000
JACK.ORGC$5,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.9M · 22 repeat orgsC$95k 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 +11% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
1

Total granted

C$1.9M
C$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$85k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA-LOW-FIELD MRI PROGRAM
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$400k · revenue +24%
  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$358k · revenue +34%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$220k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • SC
    SALMON COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue +11%

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
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
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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4
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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5
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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6
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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7
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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8
Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation
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9
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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10
Vancouver Food Runners Society

At vancouver food runners our mission is to respond to the unfortunate disconnect between the fact that over 40% of all food produced is wasted or lost while one in nine household in british columbia are food insecure. oue aim is to…

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11
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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12
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salmon Coast Society and the most unlike its peers is S.S. Master Society. 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

25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA-LOW-FIELD MRI PROGRAM — C$400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$357,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$220,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHEALTH AND HOME CARE SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMOM TO MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD STASH FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJACK.ORG — C$45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRAIN TUMOUR FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREEN TEAMS OF CANADA — C$40,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetS.S. MASTER SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetBABYGROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIE — C$35,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetNANAIMO & DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$28,553 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSALMON COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY/CANADAHELPS CANAD — C$20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetKW'UMUT LELUM FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS VANCOUVER SOCIETY — C$12,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSALMON COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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…Vancouver FoundationBc Government Employe…United Way British Co…Wolrige FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…Zlc FoundationRaymond James Canada …Centra Cares Foundati…Aqueduct FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC12.3× affinity10 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 · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way British Columbia · Wolrige Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Centra Cares Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 25 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 2024-09-30, 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 789649316:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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