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Tweedledum Foundation

Manage endowment fund and donate proceeds to assist small charities

C$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$40k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$3,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETYC$10,000
FRASER ACADEMY ASSOCIATIONC$7,500
HALTON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$6,000
VOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETYC$5,000
SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMYC$5,000
KELOWNA ART GALLERY ASSOCIATIONC$3,000
ELEVATION OUTDOOR EXPERIENTIAL PROGRAMS ASSOCIATIONC$2,500
MOM TO MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVE SOCIETYC$2,500
CHIMP: CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATIONC$2,500
PACIFIC YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETYC$2,500
EYA ENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCEC$2,500
TINY TALES PONY RESCUE 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$268k · 14 repeat orgsC$52k 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 +9% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

C$268k
C$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$19k 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

  • WD
    WISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$43k · revenue +210%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN MUSIC ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$40k · revenue +31%
  • FA
    FRASER ACADEMY ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$38k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • BT
    BARD TO BROADWAY
    one grant, 2019 · C$6k · revenue -39%
  • TN
    Thompson Nicola Regional District
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +22%
  • YA
    Yale and District Historical Society
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k · revenue -99%

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
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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2
Kelowna Arts Academy Society

Studio 9 provides school for grades Kindergarten to Grade 12 that focuses on integrating the arts into all curriculum and teaching enhanced arts subjects in a project-based collaborative manner. We value the use of imagination student…

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3
Story Studio Writing Society

Story Studio is an award-winning BC-based charity that inspires educates and empowers youth to be great storytellers transforming lives and strengthening communities. The charity supports the well-being of children youth and families…

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4
Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Society

Conducts a competition to award scholarship to bc youth studying music. provide educational workshops master classes and seminars to young musicians in british columbia.

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5
Pythagoras Academy Society

The society operates an Independent School in Richmond BC. It provides a high-quality education curriculum for students from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 8.

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6
Learningstorm Education Society

This charity operates as an independent not-for-profit secondary school where students can enjoy an educational context that best suits learners. they advance education by operating an independent secondary school for grades 9-12. they…

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7
Claren Academy Society

Claren academy society operates claren academy whcih is an independent elementary school in downtown vancouver. claren academy follows the bc curriculum and currently offers kindergarten to grade 7.

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8
Story Theatre Productions Society

Story Theatre is a theatre for young audiences (TYA) company based in Victoria BC (Unceded Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SANEĆ territories). For over 40 years Story Theatre has been inspiring imagination and encouraging literacy with a mandate to create…

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9
Vancouver Island Youth Dance Theatre Association

Vancouver island youth dance theatre association is a non profit society dedicated to bringing togetherdancers from diverse backgrounds to bridge the gap between amateur and professional while gaining exposure to professional…

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10
Greater Victoria Danceworks Association

The Greater Victoria Danceworks Association runs an annual adjudicated dance showcase with performances from students enrolled in local (Vancouver Island & Vancouver Mainland) dance studios. Competition-stream soloists are selected to…

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11
Vancouver Youth Theatre Society

Charitable activities include ongoing programs that fulfill vyt's mission statement: a creative partnership between young actors and authors with adult theatre professionals co-creating plays from young peoples' ideas across kids' writes…

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12
Pacific Ballet British Columbia Society

Ballet BC is an internationally acclaimed collaborative and creation-based contemporary ballet company that is a leader and resource in the creation production and education of contemporary dance in Canada. The company's regular…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bc Regiment (Dco) Association and the most unlike its peers is St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School. 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

29 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
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 budgetWISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$42,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT JOHN MUSIC ACADEMY — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFRASER ACADEMY ASSOCIATION — C$38,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYork House School Society — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES — C$24,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetST. MILDRED'S LIGHBOURN SCHOOL — C$22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWRITERS' EXCHANGE SOCIETY — C$19,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE SOCIETY — C$15,006 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetTINY TALES PONY RESCUE — C$15,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetELEVATION OUTDOORS — C$7,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBARD TO BROADWAY — C$6,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHALTON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIMP: CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThompson Nicola Regional District — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRaymond James Canada Foundation — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale and District Historical Society — C$4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCORTES ISLAND FIRE FIGHTING ASSOCIATION — C$4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBC REGIMENT (DCO) TRUST — C$4,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetKELOWNA ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCOTDANCE CANADA ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBC TOMORROW SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARING & SPEECH CENTRE OF BC — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOM TO MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILLIWACK RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND YOUTH ADVOCACY — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMUSICA INTIMA SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Hamber FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…First West FoundationZlc FoundationY.P.Heung FoundationLohn FoundationF. K. Morrow Foundati…John Hardie Mitchell …The Houssian Foundati…The Zacks Family Char…
The Hamber FoundationBC11.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · First West Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · Lohn Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation · The Houssian Foundation · The Zacks Family Charitable 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 29 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 898736418:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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