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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Sitka Foundation

The foundation receives and manages funds for the exclusive purpose of making gifts to qualified donees as defined by the income tax act.

C$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$5.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$67k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$241k
  • C$50k–250k38 grants · C$4.6M
  • C$250k+10 grants · C$11M
C$91,195
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$258M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATIONC$5,010,000
OCEANS NORTH CONSERVATION SOCIETYC$1,500,000
NATURE UNITEDC$1,260,000
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$781,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$600,000
PANTHERA CANADAC$500,000
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$450,000
THE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATIONC$425,000
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$275,000
THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$250,000
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (CPAWS) NATIONAL OFFICC$243,847
WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW RESEARCH FOUNDATIONC$210,000
ECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETYC$210,000
RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$200,000
WCS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADAC$200,000
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$49M · 89 repeat orgsC$13M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

89 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
40

Total granted

C$49M
C$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+11%

Still filing today

97%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.3M 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

  • CC
    COAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$5.0M · revenue +136%
  • MC
    MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.7M · revenue +127%
  • TD
    The David Suzuki Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.7M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • QU
    Queen's University at Kingstongraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5.0M · revenue +27%
  • CM
    Canadian Museum of Nature
    one grant, 2017 · C$4.0M
  • NS
    NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$311k · revenue -40% · 45% of their budget

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
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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2
Island Nature Trust

land acquisition through donation and purchase application of protection to those lands stewardship and management to retain ecological integrity protection and monitoring of species-at-risk nature education and engagement programs…

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3
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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4
Endangered Ecosystems Alliance

Educating the public of the current state of the environment and conservation principles. information is provided to the general public through news media engagement social media postings public hikes and presentations in order to increase…

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5
The Valhalla Wilderness Society

Coastal Temperate Rainforest-VWS was instrumental in the past in research and campaigns that saw large areas of the BC coast protected as conservancies. VWS continues to monitor park management and eco-system based logging as well as…

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6
Canadian Wildlife Federation/FÉDÉRation Canadienne De La Faune

Cwf’s mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of canada’s wildlife and habitat for the use and enjoyment of all through research direct programming education and advocacy. cwf is recognized for our leadership in bringing…

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7
Fraser Valley Watersheds Coalition

We organize and participate in environmental projects designed to improve and restore watersheds in the Fraser Valley. These projects include stream and streamside restoration invasive species management tree planting stream mapping…

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8
Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research Society

Coordination fo the friends of wild salmon coalition - convening of community groups and first nations on issues related to wild salmon in northwest b.c. - research on wild salmon in northwest watersheds. - public education on issues…

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9
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists

Nature Nova Scotia (also known as the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) exists to aid in the communication and cooperation among naturalists natural history societies and other nature-focused groups in Nova Scotia. We profile and…

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10
Freshwater Conservation Canada

Freshwater conservation canada is committed to conserving protecting and restoring canada's freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations. programs and projects are delivered by our professional…

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11
Friends of Cortes Island Society

We carry out ecological monitoring restoration and education programs on cortes island. this includes lake stream marine and wetland stewardship programs involving research monitoring and habitat restoration. we also manage and maintain…

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12
Canadian Council on Invasive Species

The council works collaboratively across jurisdictional boundaries to support actions and information that can help reduce the threat and impacts of invasive species.

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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 Hazelton Pastoral Charge. 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

132 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. 132 of the 147 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/132
Grantees still filing
90/132
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 budgetCOAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATION — C$5,020,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetQueen's University at Kingston — C$5,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$3,747,050 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetThe David Suzuki Foundation — C$3,700,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$3,164,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$2,110,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNATURE UNITED — C$2,110,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetMAKEWAY FOUNDATION — C$1,581,500 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$1,542,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$1,504,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetOCEANS NORTH CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$1,500,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPANTHERA CANADA — C$1,500,000 over 3y, 96% of budgetECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY — C$1,406,336 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (CPAWS) — C$1,230,599 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetOCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — C$1,170,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$1,021,627 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetWCS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA — C$950,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetThe Pembina Foundation for Environmental Research and Educat — C$865,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetNATURE CANADA — C$855,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetCANADIAN COASTAL RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$812,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetWEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$801,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetAga Khan Foundation Canada — C$775,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY - BC — C$774,579 over 4y, 22% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$737,400 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — C$681,003 over 7y, 10% of budgetENVIRONMENT FUNDERS CANADA — C$556,500 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FOUNDATION — C$519,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$494,411 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY — C$455,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY LAND TRUST — C$450,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetWATERSHED WATCH SALMON SOCIETY — C$445,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetBIRDS CANADA — C$423,644 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA — C$380,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DENA KAYEH INSTITUTE — C$375,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSKEENAWILD CONSERVATION TRUST — C$360,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetGEORGIA STRAIT ALLIANCE — C$355,000 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetNATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION — C$310,500 over 1y, 45% of budgetCentre for Indigenous Environmental Resources — C$300,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetFEDERATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA NATURALISTS (BC NATURE) — C$300,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSALMON COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY — C$248,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetFIRST NATIONS FISHERIES CHARITY FUND SOCIETY — C$225,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetFRASER RIVERKEEPER SOCIETY — C$212,000 over 6y, 91% of budgetWILDSIGHT — C$210,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$208,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetFRASER BASIN COUNCIL SOCIETY — C$205,200 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBC SPACES FOR NATURE SOCIETY — C$205,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetNEIGHBOURS UNITED FOR NATURE SOCIETY — C$205,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetBC PARKS FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds COAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Queen's University at Kingston ↗
  • Who funds MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The David Suzuki Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds NATURE UNITED ↗
  • Who funds MAKEWAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds OCEANS NORTH CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PANTHERA CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (CPAWS) ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WCS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA ↗
  • Who funds The Pembina Foundation for Environmental Research and Educat ↗
  • Who funds NATURE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN COASTAL RESEARCH SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Aga Khan Foundation Canada ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY - BC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENT FUNDERS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COMOX VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds WATERSHED WATCH SALMON SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BIRDS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA ↗
  • Who funds THE DENA KAYEH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SKEENAWILD CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA STRAIT ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources ↗

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 FoundationPacific Salmon Founda…North Family Foundati…The McLean FoundationNature Canada / Canad…Vancity Community Fou…The Victoria Foundati…The Houssian Foundati…The Catherine Donnell…Td Friends of the Env…The Schad FoundationThe Trottier Family F…
Makeway FoundationBC34.3× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifique · North Family Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · Vancity Community Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · The Houssian Foundation · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The Schad Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier

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 147 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 816109417:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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