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Smithers, BC · Private foundation

Trails Charitable Foundation

To solicit and receive gifts bequests trusts funds and property and beneficially or as a trustee or agent to hold invest develope manage accumulate and administer funds and property for the purpose of disbursing funds and property exclusively to registered charities and 'qualified donees' under the provisions of the income tax…

C$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$16k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$36k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BULKLEY VALLEY YOUTH SPORT FOUNDATIONC$15,500
POWER TO GIVE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
BULKLEY VALLEY HEALTH CARE & HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$6,100
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$281k · 9 repeat orgsC$47k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

C$281k
C$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+22%

Still filing today

89%
90%

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

  • VU
    VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$86k · revenue +34%
  • PT
    POWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$69k · revenue +46%
  • BV
    BULKLEY VALLEY HEALTH CARE & HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$23k · revenue +620%

Funded once

  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue -7%
  • BV
    BILKLEY VALLEY SEACH & RESCUE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue +85%
  • CA
    CEDARS AT COBBLE HILL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$8k · revenue -83%

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
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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2
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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3
Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital and Health Foundation Society

The Foundation an independent chartable society raises gifts and annual funds to support healthcare equipment needs staff education patient care and comfort and special initiatives to enhance the healthcare of the Kootenay Boundary…

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4
Squamish Hospital Foundation

Raising funds principally for capital and other needs of the health care institutions in the sea to sky community.

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5
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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6
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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7
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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8
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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9
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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10
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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11
Bc Sport & Exercise Medicine Research Foundation

Conduct research into sports related injuries and treatment -disburse research awards to graduate students performing research -involve in the planning and implementation of a multi-faceted research program including presentation and…

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12
British Columbia Search and Rescue Association

The british columbia search and rescue association enhances the provision of ground search and rescue (gsar) services in the province of bc by providing gsar volunteers with a common link to information and resources facilitating access to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bulkley Valley Health Care and Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is River City Squash Organization. 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

17 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. 17 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
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 budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$86,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY SOCIETY — C$69,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBULKLEY VALLEY HEALTH CARE & HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$23,100 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetBULKLEY VALLEY YOUTH SPORT FOUNDATION — C$19,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$16,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPOWER TO GIVE FOUNDATION — C$15,050 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOAST MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSALVATION ARMY - BULKLEY VALLEY MINISTRIES — C$14,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILKLEY VALLEY SEACH & RESCUE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetShriners of British Columbia & Yukon Child Services Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetStrive Living Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetY.A.N.A. Fund Society — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRIVER CITY SQUASH ORGANIZATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTELKWA MUSEUM SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

Bc Government Employe…Lakeview FoundationBulkley Valley Commun…United Way British Co…United Way of Calgary…Vancouver FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund TrustBC8.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Lakeview Foundation · Bulkley Valley Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · United Way of Calgary and Area · Vancouver Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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 19 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 2024-08-31, 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 834768020:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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