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Victoria, BC · Public foundation

The Victoria Foundation

THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION connects people who care with causes that matter.

C$33M
Granted FY2024still arriving
712
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$4.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 712 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k310 grants · C$904k
  • C$10k–50k269 grants · C$7.0M
  • C$50k–250k116 grants · C$10M
  • C$250k+17 grants · C$15M
C$15,000
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$525M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipientC$4,928,118
TSAY KEH DENE FIRST NATIONC$3,184,941
VICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSICC$898,965
OUR PLACE SOCIETYC$737,487
PACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA ASSOCIATIONC$674,074
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$631,140
VICTORIA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATIONC$502,850
VICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETYC$483,464
SAANICH PENINSULA HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONC$452,129
THE SALVATION ARMY BRITISH COLUMBIA DIVISIONC$377,856
B.C. SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSC$295,756
THRESHOLD HOUSING SOCIETYC$288,909
VICTORIA WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETYC$278,171
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$275,876
THE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND L'INSTITUT NATC$264,163
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 89% of grant dollars (C$177M). The 11% that went abroad (C$22M) is mapped below.

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$125M
Ontario
C$4.6M
Alberta
C$585k
Quebec
C$492k
New Brunswick
C$184k
Saskatchewan
C$102k
Manitoba
C$79k
Nova Scotia
C$11k
Prince Edward Island
C$8k
Northwest Territories
C$497

Beyond home — 11% of all-years giving (C$22M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$221k · 6 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$185M · 773 repeat orgsC$14M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

773 repeat relationships — 616 still active in FY2024, 157 since wound down; 79 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

773
229

Total granted

C$185M
C$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+21%

Still filing today

93%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.1M 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

  • AG
    Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$7.3M · revenue +480% · 65% of their budget
  • OP
    OUR PLACE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.0M · revenue +140%
  • VC
    VICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4.7M · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BS
    BC Search and Rescue Association
    one grant, 2017 · C$5.1M
  • BS
    BC Search and Rescue Association
    one grant, 2018 · C$5.1M
  • VD
    Victoria Dandelion Society
    one grant, 2017 · C$168k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Salmon Coast Society

Salmon coast supports innovative research public education community outreach and ecosystem awareness to achieve lasting conservation measures for the lands and waters of the broughton archipelago and surrounding areas by: - helping…

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6
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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7
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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8
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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9
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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10
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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11
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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12
Squamish River Watershed Society

Watershed restoration including restoring fish habitat in the upper rivervine systems and the Squamish estuary. Running educational and outreach programming for students and community. Hosting and holding events (Earth Day Rivers Day).…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver and the most unlike its peers is St Luke's Players. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

1010 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. 1010 of the 1,081 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.

130
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
322
Early backer (in before they grew)
982/1010
Grantees still filing
695/1010
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetArt Gallery of Greater Victoria Foundation — C$7,261,608 over 2y, 65% of budgetOUR PLACE SOCIETY — C$5,028,148 over 8y, 10% of budgetVICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$4,726,451 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCH — C$3,910,138 over 8y, 61% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$3,657,419 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA ASSOCIATION — C$3,592,798 over 8y, 79% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION — C$2,986,127 over 8y, 92% of budgetVictoria Community Food Hub Society — C$2,569,153 over 8y, 65% of budgetVICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$2,471,301 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetThe Salvation Army British Columbia Division — C$2,470,641 over 8y, 66% of budgetSAANICH PENINSULA HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$2,363,251 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,971,875 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ANGLICAN SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF BC — C$1,916,512 over 8y, 93% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO AN — C$1,829,577 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetVictoria Cool Aid Society — C$1,827,646 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER ISLAND — C$1,590,537 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetAnawim Companions Society — C$1,458,423 over 8y, 44% of budgetVictoria Hospitals Foundation — C$1,411,146 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCAMOSUN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$1,401,932 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND L'INSTITUT NAT — C$1,214,082 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetVICTORIA WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY — C$1,102,867 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetCanadian Centre For Policy Alternatives — C$1,091,901 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$989,642 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetRoyal British Columbia Museum Foundation — C$914,111 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetAboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society — C$839,994 over 8y, 40% of budgetBroadmead Care Society — C$816,786 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetVictoria Native Friendship Centre — C$771,790 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetGreater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness Society — C$748,068 over 8y, 23% of budgetTHRESHOLD HOUSING SOCIETY — C$724,369 over 8y, 12% of budgetPacific North-West Heritage Home Foundation 2013 — C$720,650 over 5y, 84% of budgetCCPA - CANADIAN HERITAGE ARTS SOCIETY — C$699,521 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetInnovative Communities.Org Foundation — C$692,055 over 8y, 18% of budgetDANCE VICTORIA SOCIETY — C$671,063 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetWESTERN CANADA WILDERNESS COMMITTEE — C$664,985 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$660,367 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$651,774 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetINTER-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$651,773 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetInclusion Powell River Society — C$606,077 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCanadian Red Cross Society — C$604,541 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTLC THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$585,314 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetHABITAT ACQUISITION TRUST — C$567,319 over 8y, 19% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA - LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE POU — C$562,548 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIsland Community Mental Health Association — C$548,085 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$532,696 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BELFRY THEATRE SOCIETY — C$514,589 over 8y, 20% of budgetCFAX SANTAS ANONYMOUS SOCIETY — C$512,086 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetGreater Victoria Volunteer Society (Volunteer Victoria) — C$495,595 over 8y, 10% of budgetCOWICHAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION — C$493,001 over 8y, 19% 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 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OUR PLACE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Community Food Hub Society ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The Salvation Army British Columbia Division ↗
  • Who funds SAANICH PENINSULA HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ANGLICAN SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF BC ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO AN ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Cool Aid Society ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds Anawim Companions Society ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Hospitals Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CAMOSUN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND L'INSTITUT NAT ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA HOSPICE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society ↗
  • Who funds Broadmead Care Society ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Native Friendship Centre ↗
  • Who funds Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness Society ↗
  • Who funds THRESHOLD HOUSING SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Pacific North-West Heritage Home Foundation 2013 ↗
  • Who funds CCPA - CANADIAN HERITAGE ARTS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Innovative Communities.Org Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DANCE VICTORIA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN CANADA WILDERNESS COMMITTEE ↗

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.

United Way Southern V…Sovereign Order of St…The Sisters of Saint …University of VictoriaAnglican Synod of the…Rotary Club of Victor…Charlton L Smith Char…First West FoundationChildren's Health Fou…Allen & Loreen Van de…Times Colonist Litera…Salt Spring Island Fo…
United Way Southern Vancouver IslandBC57× affinity133 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · The Sisters of Saint Ann · University of Victoria · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Rotary Club of Victoria - Harbourside Foundation · Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation · First West Foundation · Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island · Allen & Loreen Van de Kerk Hove Family Foundation · Times Colonist Literacy Society · Salt Spring Island 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 1081 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 130650898:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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