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Victoria, BC · Public foundation

Times Colonist Christmas Fund Society

We collect donations from our readers primarily in november and december and distribute money to people in need throughout vancouver island.

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$672k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$65k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$175k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$922k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SOVEREIGN ORDER OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM KNIGHTS HOSPITAC$672,360
THE SALVATION ARMYC$250,000
ROTARY CLUB OF VICTORIA-HARBOURSIDE FOUNDATIONC$100,000
THE MUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCHC$75,000
LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD BANK FOUNDATIONC$25,000
BREAKFAST2MUSIC SOCIETYC$20,000
THE SALVATION ARMY ALBERNI VALLEY CORPSC$10,000
CAMPBELL RIVER AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY OCEAN CREST CORPSC$5,000
COMOX VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$5,000
DENMAN ISLAND COMMUNITY EDUCATION SOCIETYC$2,500
FOOD BANK ON THE EDGEC$2,000
PEOPLE FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY ON GABRIOLA SOCIETYC$1,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.0M · 30 repeat orgsC$145k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
7

Total granted

C$5.0M
C$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+50%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue +462% · 69% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SOVEREIGN ORDER OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM KNIGHTS HOSPITA
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +158% · 84% of their budget
  • TM
    The Mustard Seed Street Church
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$526k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • VI
    VANCOUVER ISLAND COUNSELLING CENTRE FOR IMMIGRANTS ANgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$40k · revenue +77%
  • DV
    DANCE VICTORIA SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue +98%
  • OC
    OAKLANDS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +44%

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
Victoria Community Food Hub Society

The society is a multi-stakeholder society that supports the development of a sustainable local food system on vancouver island. the over-srching goal of the organization is to increase the production of island-grown food while incubating…

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2
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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3
Squamish Food Bank Society

The squamish food bank is a non-profit charitable society. they provide food to those experiencing hunger in squamish. hundreds of residents rely on their services every month including individuals families single parents seniors and…

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4
Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy food to those in need. The Society provides food support to approximately 16 000 children adults and seniors monthly through its…

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5
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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6
Surrey Food Bank Society

The surrey food bank’s food hamper program provides food assistance to low-income individuals in surrey and north delta. we also provide nutritional support specifically for families with expectant mothers and babies up to 2-years of age.…

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7
Cowichan Valley Basket Society

Daily the food bank provides hot meals served from 10am to 1pm providing of monthly and easy food hampers and emergency food hamper. providing support system for those who request assistance with accessing local services association with…

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8
Nicola Valley Food Bank Society

Food bank - three days per week providing lower income families with supplement nutrition winter outerwear program - october and november christmas hamper program - december senior's program - extra nutrition children's dairy - provide…

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9
Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank Society

Providing food to families in the kimberley area.

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10
Turner Valley and District Food Bank Association

The Turner Valley and District Food Bank Association provides emergency food hampers on a weekly basis to those in need who live in our communities. We also have a program where we provide summer snack packs for children and we also…

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11
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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12
Vancouver Food Runners Society

At vancouver food runners our mission is to respond to the unfortunate disconnect between the fact that over 40% of all food produced is wasted or lost while one in nine household in british columbia are food insecure. oue aim is to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Place Society and the most unlike its peers is Ukrainian Catholic Parish of St Nicholas. 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

37 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
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$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$1,676,000 over 8y, 69% of budgetTHE SOVEREIGN ORDER OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM KNIGHTS HOSPITA — C$1,197,360 over 3y, 84% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Street Church — C$526,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF VICTORIA-HARBOURSIDE FOUNDATION — C$212,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetNOURISH COWICHAN SOCIETY — C$200,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetUKRAINIAN CATHOLIC PARISH OF ST.NICHOLAS — C$160,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetVICTORIA WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY — C$140,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetVICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOUR PLACE SOCIETY — C$116,750 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD BANK FOUNDATION — C$105,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOLDSTREAM FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$80,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetSOOKE FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetSAANICH PENINSULA LIONS — C$60,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCOBBLE HILL-MILL BAY-SHAWNIGAN LAKE FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budget1 UP VICTORIA SINGLE PARENT RESOURCE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND COUNSELLING CENTRE FOR IMMIGRANTS AN — C$40,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$35,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE COWICHAN FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetDANCE VICTORIA SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCAMPBELL RIVER AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGES FOR WOMEN SOCIETY — C$28,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOAKLANDS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVICTORIA RAINBOW KITCHEN SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHRESHOLD HOUSING SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetESQUIMALT NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDENMAN ISLAND COMMUNITY EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$12,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetSALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVIC — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST NATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK ON THE EDGE — C$10,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetFOOD BANK AT ST JOHN THE DIVINE — C$10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF VICTORIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAYNE ISLAND FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetPEOPLE FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY ON GABRIOLA SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOAP FOR HOPE CANADA — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLAICHWILTACH FAMILY LIFE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHORNBY ISLAND EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

The Victoria Foundati…Sovereign Order of St…Anglican Synod of the…Food Banks British Co…Loaves and Fishes Com…First West FoundationBc Government Employe…United Way Southern V…Food Banks Canada/Ban…The Western Communiti…Vancity Community Fou…Victoria Truth Centre…
The Victoria FoundationBC22.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Food Banks British Columbia · Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society · First West Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · The Western Communities Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Victoria Truth Centre Inc.

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 37 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 organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 802574970:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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