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High River, AB · Private foundation

The Western Communities Foundation

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C$637k
Granted FY2024still arriving
164
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$110k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 164 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k158 grants · C$380k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$147k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$110k
C$1,725
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$606k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADAHELPS CANADONC$110,000
Winnipeg United WayC$33,283
Winnipeg United WayC$31,547
Winnipeg United WayC$31,480
Winnipeg United WayC$31,109
Jasper Community Team SocietyC$20,000
High River Food for ThoughtC$8,653
Lloydminster Region Health Foundation - BMW Program.C$5,919
RM of Gilbert Plains | Nimble Thimble Quilt ClubC$5,135
Manitoba HarvestC$5,134
D Arcy s A.R.C.C$5,134
Horizon School Division #67C$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
Nanaimo Foodshare SocietyC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 224 repeat orgsC$973k 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 +22% for the ones you funded once.

224 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 150 since wound down; 81 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

224
375

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$763k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+22%

Still filing today

87%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$210k 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

  • WU
    Winnipeg United Way
    4× · 2019–2024 · C$133k · revenue +24%
  • CC
    CANADAHELPS CANADON
    2× · 2018–2024 · C$111k · revenue +183%
  • BS
    BOE School District #61 (Greater Victoria)
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$48k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • BC
    Bethany Care Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue -2%
  • CO
    City of Richmond
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k
  • VN
    Victoria Native Friendship Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +159%

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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Columbia Valley Food Bank

Volunteers distribute food hampers to help feed senior adults families and children. - Funding for Food Learning Programs and Health Eating Programs for Grade School and Early Learning centers. - Provide emergency food hampers in crisis…

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2
Comox Valley Food Bank Society

To relieve poverty by operating a food bank that distributes food and other necessities to persons of low income Supporting local programs that provide meals for those experiencing food insecurity Food Rescue from local vendors Over 20…

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3
South East Healthability Society Inc.

Providing a food bank and operating a community thrift store to relieve poverty by supplying some of the necessities of life. Programs available in the food bank are monthly and emergency food hampers a community fridge a backpack for…

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4
Comox Bay Care Society

Improving access to healthcare and related services through relationship building with individuals who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness in the comox valley.

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5
Food Bank Society of Whitehorse

Providing emergency food to people in need.

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6
Fraser Valley Humane Society

We operate a feline shelter that offers feline adoption services feline spay/neuter services lost and found registry and a cat and dog food bank. We provide humane education emergency displaced person support as well as volunteer…

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7
Victoria County Animal Shelter Inc.

Care shelter and adoption of abandoned and surrendered family pets. Community programs: Trap Neuter Release(TNR); Prevent Another Litter (PAL); Spay Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) Fostering

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8
Nutritionlink Services Society

Nutritionlink services society (nls) promotes and enhances eating choices for people and communities in british columbia. nls works in collaboration with others to enhance individuals' ability to make healthy food choices. nls supports the…

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9
Central Alberta Humane Society (for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)

Operates a shelter for companion animals including: adoption surrender rescue rehabilitation pet therapy humane education emergency boarding low income spay/neuter pet food bank

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10
Food Banks British Columbia

Providing community food bank with the support and resources necessery to enable them to accept store and distribute donations of fresh nutritious produce protein dairy etc to those enduring hunger and food insecurity across the province…

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11
Sea to Sky Community Services Society

The Society offers more then 42 programs in the Sea to Sky Corridor supported by various funding sources including individual donors foundations and government partners. Adult and Family Services provides clinical and therapeutic care for…

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12
Pender Island Food Bank Society

The pender island food bank society provides supplemental food to needy individuals and families on pender island bc and at christmas provides gifts and food hampers for children and seniors in need.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Connections Society of Southeast Bc and the most unlike its peers is East Side Church of God. 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

550 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. 550 of the 680 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)
156
Early backer (in before they grew)
536/550
Grantees still filing
377/550
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 budgetWinnipeg United Way — C$132,629 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS — C$130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON — C$110,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOE School District #61 (Greater Victoria) — C$48,063 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoard of Education of SD #5 — C$42,485 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF EDUCATION OF SD 60 — C$40,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF EDUCATION OF SD #38 — C$37,637 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT — C$28,031 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetThe BC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals — C$28,002 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe BOE School District #79 (Cowichan) — C$25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLANGLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe BOE of SD# 62 (Sooke) — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJasper Community Team Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Salvation Army High River Corps — C$19,837 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetEast Kootenay Foundaiton for Health — C$18,395 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHELP FILL A DREAM FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$18,269 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLLOYDMINSTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$18,104 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island — C$17,439 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBoard of Educatoin of SD # 68 — C$17,173 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND FAMILY PLACE SOCIETY — C$17,093 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSaanich Neighbourhood Place — C$16,642 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTSOW-TUN LE LUM SOCIETY — C$16,487 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWildrose Community Connections — C$15,794 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Humane Society of the Battlefords — C$15,626 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBethany Care Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPrairie Rose School Division No 8 — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA MEDICAIR SOCIETY — C$14,925 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA BRANDON — C$13,740 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRowan House Society — C$13,298 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRiver East Transcona School Trust Fund — C$12,521 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetLoaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society — C$12,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$12,030 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$11,637 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSOURIS HILLCREST COMMUNITY CORP — C$11,575 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetWolf Creek School Division #72 — C$11,443 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Crisis Care Society — C$11,386 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoothill School Division #38 — C$10,870 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVictoria Humane Society — C$10,869 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Health Foundation of EC SK — C$10,725 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSHELBOURNE COMMUNITY KITCHEN — C$10,700 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe BOE of School District No. 23 (Central Okanagan) — C$10,560 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHASE CHRISTMAS HAMPER SOCIETY — C$10,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE BOE OF SCHOOOL DISTRICT NO 63 ( SAANICH) — C$10,401 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetPEACE RIVER SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO AN — C$10,325 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetASSOC. OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES BC — C$10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGELLATLY NUT FARM SOCIETY — C$10,227 over 3y, 23% of budgetManitoba Harvest — C$10,178 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERNON & DISTRICT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING — C$10,000 over 2y, 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.

Food Banks British Co…Food Banks Alberta As…Sovereign Order of St…The Canfor Good Thing…Mealshare Aid Foundat…United Way Southern V…Boston Pizza Foundati…The Art Starts in Sch…Community Foundation …Indigo Love of Readin…Sasktel Telcare Emplo…Sedin Family Foundati…
Food Banks British ColumbiaBC22.9× affinity40 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Food Banks British Columbia · Food Banks Alberta Association · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation · Mealshare Aid Foundation · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Boston Pizza Foundation · The Art Starts in Schools Society · Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies · Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · Sasktel Telcare Employees Charity Trust · Sedin Family 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 680 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 870302619:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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