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Tiny Foundation

The Tiny Foundation provides gifts to qualified donees.

C$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$562k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$166k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$751k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$812k
C$67,544
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MYRIAD CANADA FOUNDATIONC$561,508
Streetohome FoundationC$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$123,125
University of CaliforniaC$122,548
JOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (JHR)-JOURNALISTES POUR LES DROC$100,000
Imagine CanadaC$98,000
3858278 Canada FoundationC$83,334
Leland Stanford Junior UniversityC$81,016
VICTORIA SINGLE PARENT RESOURCE CENTRE SOCIETYC$75,000
University of OregonC$67,544
University of CaliforniaC$34,803
University of UtahC$34,025
New York UniversityC$33,772
GLENLYON NORFOLK SCHOOL SOCIETYC$25,000
SAANICH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLACEC$18,210
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 69% of grant dollars (C$1.4M). The 31% that went abroad (C$639k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 31% of all-years giving (C$639k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$34k · 1 grant

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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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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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2
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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3
Citystudio Vancouver Society

Citystudio vancouver program: innovation hub that coordinates projects between the city of vancouver and local post-secondary institutions by bringing together city staff students faculty and community to co create experimental projects…

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4
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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5
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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6
Vantage Point Strategies Society

Vantage Point Strategies Society exists to advance education promote excellence and maintain high standards of practice in the non-profit and charities sector for the benefit of the public. We deliver classes workshops and courses focused…

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7
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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8
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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9
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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10
Simon Fraser University

Sfu offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the faculties of applied science arts and social services beedie school of business education environment health sciences sciences and communication arts and technology. the university…

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11
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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12
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Imagine Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Isaac Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 21 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
3/14
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMYRIAD CANADA FOUNDATION — C$561,508 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetStreetohome Foundation — C$250,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$148,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (JHR)-JOURNALISTES POUR LES DRO — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetImagine Canada — C$98,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget3858278 Canada Foundation — C$83,334 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetVICTORIA SINGLE PARENT RESOURCE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGLENLYON NORFOLK SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAANICH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLACE — C$18,210 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVictoria Native Friendship Centre — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMING EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFORWARD GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Isaac Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 7.2% 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…Vancity Community Fou…Makeway FoundationBc Government Employe…Vancouver FoundationToronto FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct FoundationUnited Way British Co…BenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…Charitable Gift Funds…
The Victoria FoundationBC9.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancouver Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way British Columbia · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 21 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 781082409:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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