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Edmonton, AB · Private foundation

Torgerson Foundation

The foundation grants money to local community charities

C$276k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$23k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$253k
C$7,272
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OKANAGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$200,000
CENTRAL OKANAGAN FOOD BANKC$53,299
YMCA OF SOUTHERN INTERIOR BCC$8,000
MAMAS FOR MAMASC$7,272
KELOWNA VICTORY LIFE FELLOWSHIP INCC$2,500
CENTRAL OKANAGAN PUBLIC SCHOOLSC$2,500
WORLD VISION CANADAC$2,352
PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADAC$288
02Your 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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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
Okanagan Learning Foundation

The charity's purpose is to promote education in the Okanagan Valley. Programs include: Food for Thought - providing children with food/clothing and understanding as to personal nutritional needs. Scholarships - providing disadvantaged…

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4
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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5
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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6
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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7
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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8
Community Foundation of the North Okanagan

The Community Foundation of the North Okanagan receives and manages capital contributions in perpetuity and invests this capital so as to generate income. The Foundation distributes a portion of the income in the form of qualifying…

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9
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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10
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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11
The Justice Institute of B.C. Foundation

The purpose of The JIBC Foundation is to improve the quality of justice and public safety through the advancement of education training and community service by soliciting managing and disbursing funds to the Justice Institute of British…

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12
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plan International Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Education of School District No. 23 (Central Okanagan). 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

9 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.

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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
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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 budgetOKANAGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN FOOD BANK — C$53,299 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN INTERIOR BC — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$7,272 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKELOWNA VICTORY LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC — C$2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA — C$2,352 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$288 over 1y, 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.

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 9 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 751508508:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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