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Salt Spring Island, BC · Private foundation

The Wilding Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to provide funding to other charities who support the merging of the arts and technology.

C$379k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$115k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$105k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$274k
C$40,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALT SPRING NATIONAL ART PRIZE SOCIETYC$115,000
SALT SPRING ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARYC$100,000
SALT SPRING ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARYC$58,500
GRAFFITI THEATRE COMPANY SOCIETYC$40,000
CENTRE DE SERVICES SCOLAIRE DE LAVALC$35,000
LE CUBEC$10,000
GO LE GRAND DÉFI INC.C$10,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64 (GULF ISLANDS)C$10,000
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$579k · 5 repeat orgsC$105k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

C$579k
C$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$85k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SS
    SALT SPRING ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$309k · revenue +37%
  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64 (GULF ISLANDS)
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$50k · revenue +8%
  • SS
    SALT SPRING ARTS COUNCIL
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$25k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • A
    ACADEMOS
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +6%
  • LÉ
    LES ÉCOLES AZRIELI SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +4%

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
S a T Société des Arts Technologiques/S a T Technological Art Society

Avec une double mission de centre d'artistes et de centre de recherches la s.a.t. soutient la nouvelle génération de créateurs-chercheurs à l'ère du numérique. elle réunit sous un même toit la recherche la formation la création et la…

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2
Island Arts Centre Society (Artspring)

Island arts centre society owns and operates a community arts centre on salt spring island bc. in carrying out its mandate 'artspring' is made available to the community sponsors community events and presents education and entertainment…

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3
L'ecole Et Les Arts

Diffusion culturelle pour le jeunes publics de 4 à 12 ans. Volet pédagogique : activités préparatoires en classe et ateliers de diverses disciplines artistiques.

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4
Centre des arts actuels skol

Organiser des expositions et autres activités de promotion des arts visuels. publier des oubrages sur les arts actuels promouvoir la recherche et l'expérimentation auprés des artistes.

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5
S.a.L.T.S. Sail and Life Training Society

SALTS operates two tall ships and teaches approximately 1700 young people (ages 13-24) to sail them each year. In the spring and fall school groups participate in five-day voyages to the Gulf Islands of southern BC. During the summers…

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6
Centre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles
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7
Vancouver Island School of Art Society

The Societies principal activities comprise the operation of an art school which is an accredited educational institution under the Private Training Act

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8
Fondation Jean-Claude Bergeron

Favoriser le développement artistique de l'élève inscrit au centre d'excellence artistique de l'école secondaire de la salle

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9
La Societe Culturelle De La Baie Des Chaleurs Inc

Atelier et diffusions de spectacles. développer et encourager la créativité artistique. présentation de spectacles et d'artistes locaux.

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10
Centre de services scolaire de la Pointe-de-L'Île

Enseignement préscolaire primaire secondaire formation générale aux adultes et formation professionnelle

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11
Coastarts Association

Educational programs in all artistic disciplines overnight arts camps for young people presentation of professional live theatre professional development for professional artists of all disciplines outreach to arts programs in public…

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12
Ecole De Cirque Des Iles

Opération d'une école qui vise l'enseignement des techniques de l'art du cirque en offrant des ateliers et des cours portant sur les différentes disciplines du cirque - offrir un service de soutien qui cumule l'intervention sociale…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salt Spring Arts Council and the most unlike its peers is Academos Cybermentorat. 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

10 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
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 budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$308,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetSALT SPRING NATIONAL ART PRIZE SOCIETY — C$180,500 over 2y, 45% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64 (GULF ISLANDS) — C$49,985 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGRAFFITI THEATRE COMPANY SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetCENTRE DE SERVICES SCOLAIRE DE LAVAL — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALT SPRING ARTS COUNCIL — C$25,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGO LE GRAND DÉFI INC. — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMOS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLE CUBE — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLES ÉCOLES AZRIELI SCHOOLS — C$10,000 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.

Salt Spring Island Fo…Aqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Salt Spring Island FoundationBC9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Salt Spring Island Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 10 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 794054205:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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