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Victoria, BC · Public foundation

Times Colonist Literacy Society

To receive funds through fundraising grants and donations and disburse the funds to qualified donees to be used in the advancement of education such as schools and literacy organization

C$295k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$91k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k28 grants · C$41k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$111k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$143k
C$1,900
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$504k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 61 (GREATER VICTORIA(C$91,300
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 62 (SOOKE)C$52,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 63 (SAANICH)C$30,600
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 68 (NANAIMO-LADYSMITH)C$21,000
VICTORIA LITERACY CONNECTION SOCIETYC$20,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 79 (COWICHAN VALLEY)C$15,400
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 71 (COMOX VALLEY)C$14,000
VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONC$10,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64 (GULF ISLAND)C$4,900
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 69 (QUALICUM)C$4,900
LDABC THE LEARNING CURVE SOCIETYC$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$2,000
THE MUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCHC$2,000
FONDATION CANADIENNE FRANCAISE D'AIDE CULTURELLE DE LA CBC$1,900
MAHARSIN PRESCHOOL SOCIETYC$1,900
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 47 repeat orgsC$29k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
18

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • SD
    School District No. 61 (Greater Victoria)
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$647k · revenue +34%
  • SD
    School District No. 62 (Sooke)
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$304k · revenue +37%
  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 63 (SAANICH)
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$197k · revenue +215% · 66% of their budget

Funded once

  • BC
    Beacon Community Association
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue -64%
  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k
  • WC
    WESTERN COMMUNITIES MONTESSORI SOCIETY THE
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k

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
Vancouver Montessori School Society

Education programs for pre-school kindergarten and elementary students.

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2
The Board of Education of School District No. 84 (Vancouver Island West)

Provide k-12 public education

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3
Alberni Valley Childcare Society

Alberni Valley Childcare Society provides childcare to the Alberni Valley. They operate three sites and programs for infants toddlers ages 3-5 and before/after school care

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4
Squamish Waldorf School Association

Kindergarten to Grade 8 school program - Pre-school - Parent & Child (Early childhood program)

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5
Victoria Read Society

Provided students of all ages assessments of and instruction to in basic literacy numeracy English skills to help them with their reading. This includes noisy kids reading club an after school program in elementary schools.

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6
The Board of Education of School District No. 85 (Vancouver Island North)

We are responsible for offering public education programs (from Kindergarten to Grade 12) on Northern Vancouver Island BC.

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7
Central Island Independent School Society

The Society provides quality education for pre-kindergarten through grade twelve as an accredited International Baccalaureate World School. The Society has two divisions in which it operates: The Aspengrove Early Learning Centre operates…

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8
Fraser Academy Association

Fraser Academy is a leader in the empowerment and education of students with dyslexia and language-based learning differences. Located in Vancouver BC Fraser Academy's fully accredited grade 1-12 independent school offers a learner-centric…

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9
Learning Buddies Network of the Lower Mainland Society

Volunteer tutoring for struggling elementary school children. Learning Buddies Network provides free tutoring in reading and math to BC children who are struggling in these academic areas.

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10
Squamish Montessori Society

The society operates an independent school in squamish bc and teaches local children including children with special needs.

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11
Kootenay Lake Independent School Society

Non-profit licensed daycare for children aged 30 months to school age serving the Village of Kaslo and surrounding area.

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12
Halifax Independent School Society

Elementary school education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Board of Education of School District No. 63 (Saanich) and the most unlike its peers is Parkdale Evangelical Free Church. 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

63 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. 63 of the 69 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
50/63
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 budgetSchool District No. 61 (Greater Victoria) — C$646,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSchool District No. 62 (Sooke) — C$304,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 63 (SAANICH) — C$196,950 over 6y, 66% of budgetVictoria Literacy Connection Society — C$150,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 79 (COWICHAN VALLEY) — C$89,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 71 (COMOX VALLEY) — C$69,700 over 6y, 21% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 68 (NANAIMO-LADYSMITH) — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Victoria Public-Library Board — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64 (GULF ISLAND) — C$24,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLDABC The Learning Curve — C$24,500 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 69 (QUALICUM) — C$23,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budget1000x5 Childrens Book Recycling Project Society (Victoria) — C$20,900 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCONSELL SCOLAIRE FRANCOPHONE — C$15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$11,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Street Church — C$10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Montessori Society — C$9,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSchool District No. 70 (alberni) — C$8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Centre Family Services Association — C$8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Catholic Ind Schools Of The Diocese Of Victoria — C$7,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Church Cathedral Educational society — C$7,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Communities Montessori Society — C$7,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Discovery School Society — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$5,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL SOCIETY — C$5,800 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetBeacon Community Association — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuncan Christian School Association — C$4,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Community Mental Health Assoc. — C$4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREEN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$3,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION CANADIENNE FRANCAISE D'AIDE CULTURELLE DE LA CB — C$3,800 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMAHARISHI AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$3,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROGRESSIVE MONTESSORIANS — C$3,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES BAY HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFULFORD HARBOUR CHILD CARE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH — C$1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORY STUDIO WRITING SOCIETY — C$1,550 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMETCHOSIN PRESCHOOL SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGanges Educational Society — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BC MUSLIM ASSOCIATION — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAILLE LITERACY CANADA/LITTERATIE BRAILLE CANADA — C$1,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetPARKDALE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY NOW COWICHAN SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION — C$1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPender Island Child Care Society — C$1,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSalt Spring Island Public Library Association — C$1,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTER-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$1,000 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.

Postmedia Network Fou…The Victoria Foundati…United Way Central an…United Way Southern V…University of VictoriaFirst West FoundationThe Art Starts in Sch…Construction Foundati…Bc Government Employe…Decoda Literacy Found…Vancouver Sun Childre…The Western Communiti…
Postmedia Network FoundationMB38.6× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Postmedia Network Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · University of Victoria · First West Foundation · The Art Starts in Schools Society · Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) Society · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Decoda Literacy Foundation · Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society · The Western Communities 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 69 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 teaching institutions.

Source object 712285725:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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