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North Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Wickerson Foundation

Gifts to registered canadian charities and other qualified donees.

C$173k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$57k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$12k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$104k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$57k
C$15,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRENT UNIVERSITYC$57,000
MEFM SOCIETY OF BCC$20,000
DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATIONC$20,000
WISH DROP-IN SOCIETY OF BCC$15,000
PACIFIC AUTISM FAMILY CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$15,000
HAPPY HERD FARM SANCTUARYC$14,000
CANADIAN CELIAC ASSOCIATION BRITISH COLUMBIAC$10,000
BACKPACK BUDDIES (COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION)C$10,000
YOUTH UNLIMED GREATER VANCOUVERC$7,500
MOVEMBER CANADAC$4,500
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$804k · 19 repeat orgsC$62k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

C$804k
C$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+42%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • TU
    TRENT UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$208k · revenue +77%
  • BC
    B.C. CANCER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$111k · revenue +64%
  • MS
    MEFM SOCIETY OF BC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$83k · revenue ×25 · 84% of their budget

Funded once

  • TD
    THANK DOG I AM OUT DOG RECUE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$11k · revenue -2%
  • OA
    OCEAN AMBASSADORS CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -29%
  • TT
    TRI-CITY TRANSITIONS SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +26%

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
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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4
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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5
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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6
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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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
Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation
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9
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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10
Sunny Hill Foundation for Children

To provide funding to sunny hill health centre for children (part of the bc children's hospital a program of provincial health services authority) for research equiment purchases education health promotion and program development.

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11
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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12
Langara College Foundation

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society and the most unlike its peers is The Happy Herd Farm Sanctuary 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

29 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
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 budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$207,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetB.C. CANCER FOUNDATION — C$111,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEFM SOCIETY OF BC — C$82,500 over 8y, 84% of budgetHAPPY HERD FARM SANCTUARY — C$72,500 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetWISH DROP-IN SOCIETY OF BC — C$65,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetST. PAULS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$38,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH UNLIMITED — C$37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVGH + UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$24,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPACIFIC AUTISM FAMILY CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHollyburn Family Services Society — C$19,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CELIAC ASSOCIATION BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHANK DOG I AM OUT DOG RECUE SOCIETY — C$10,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES (COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION) — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN AMBASSADORS CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTRI-CITY TRANSITIONS SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYouth Unlimited — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE — C$8,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBlind Beginnings — C$6,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN' S HEARING & SPEECH CENTRE OF BC INC. — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMITH FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDEEP COVER HERITAGE SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBC CHILDREND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Toronto (Foundation) — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOKRA — C$1,000 over 1y, 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.

United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationVancity Community Fou…Bc Government Employe…Raymond James Canada …Nicola Wealth Private…The Hamber FoundationDjavad Mowafaghian Fo…Lohn FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…First West FoundationFace the World Founda…
United Way British ColumbiaBC13× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · First West Foundation · Face the World 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 29 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 822211595:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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