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Burnaby, BC · Public foundation

United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island

UNITED WAY CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND (uwcnvi) creates opportunities for a better life for every person in our communities by tackling pressing social issues.

C$3.8M
Granted FY2021
155
Grants FY2021
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Regions reached
C$490k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 155 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under C$10k82 grants · C$222k
  • C$10k–50k58 grants · C$1.4M
  • C$50k–250k13 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$789k
C$8,454
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nanaimo Region John Howard SocietyC$489,915
Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship CentreC$298,909
Hiiye 'yu Lelum SocietyC$249,912
Society for Equity Inclusion and AdvocacyC$228,375
Nanaimo Aboriginal CentreC$114,685
Cowichan Lake Community Services SocietyC$102,306
Comox Valley Transition SocietyC$92,300
Vancouver Island Mental Health SocietyC$91,269
Individual grant recipientC$81,270
Ladysmith Family and FriendsC$77,167
AVI Health and Community ServicesC$70,700
Island Crisis Care SocietyC$63,250
Mount Waddington Family Literacy SocietyC$59,000
Laichwiltach Family LifeC$53,675
Greenways LandtrustC$50,696
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$8.7M · 151 repeat orgsC$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

151 repeat relationships — 100 still active in FY2021, 51 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

151
89

Total granted

C$8.7M
C$666k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+21%

Still filing today

87%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$572k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
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

  • NR
    Nanaimo Region John Howard Society
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$2.2M · revenue +77%
  • TL
    Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$891k · revenue +97%
  • H'
    Hiiye 'yu Lelum Society
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$729k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • TL
    TILLICUM LELUM ABORIGINAL FREINDSHIP CENTRE
    one grant, 2018 · C$186k
  • MI
    MID ISLAND METIS NATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k
  • SD
    School District No. 71 Comox Valley
    one grant, 2019 · C$48k

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 Island Integrated Counselling and Community Services Society

Affordable individual and group counselling services to residents of Nanaimo and surrounding communities. Awareness and education about mental health and emotional health wellness issues. Development of future mental health practitioners…

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2
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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3
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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4
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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5
Vancouver Island Autistic Homes Society

Residential care homes: in-house support programs; individualized day programs; and support for individuals who contract to support persons with disabilities in the individual's family home. Information referral and advocacy on autism…

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6
Vancouver Island Health Authority

Island health plans and delivers health care services to the residents of vancouver island in the province of british columbia. health care services include but are not limited to acute care long-term care home support addictions mental…

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7
Affordable Housing: Vancouver Island Society
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8
Comox Valley Recovery Centre Society

Drug and alcohol treatment

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9
Hornby and Denman Community Health Care Society

Hornby and Denman Community Health Care Society continues to provide a variety of programs and services to residents of Hornby and Denman Islands and the Comox Valley. Home Assist provides services to assist seniors to remain living in…

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10
Mental Health Recovery Partners Society - South Vancouver Island

Peer support services education and training support groups counselling services

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11
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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12
The Comox Valley Lifeline Society

The organization operates to provide twenty-four hour emergency response for medically at-risk individuals. this service allows the elderly and disabled to maintain their independent lifestyles and provides peace of mind respite and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver and the most unlike its peers is Staff of Npf Charity Trust. 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

223 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. 223 of the 279 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)
86
Early backer (in before they grew)
211/223
Grantees still filing
173/223
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNanaimo Region John Howard Society — C$2,204,593 over 5y, 23% of budgetTillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre — C$891,433 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetHiiye 'yu Lelum Society — C$729,320 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetSociety for Equity Inclusion and Advocacy — C$351,441 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetLadysmith Family and Friends — C$193,184 over 5y, 16% of budgetComox Valley Transition Society — C$129,425 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetUpper Island Women of Native Ancestry — C$126,471 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetCowichan Lake Community Services Society — C$125,906 over 5y, 13% of budgetVancouver Island Mental Health Society — C$125,899 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VANCOUVER ISLAND — C$114,140 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAVI Health and Community Services — C$110,894 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Salvation Army Nanaimo — C$105,708 over 4y, 35% of budgetIsland Crisis Care Society — C$101,800 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNanaimo Community Hospice Society — C$92,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetNANAIMO FAMILY LIFE ASSOCIATION — C$90,326 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMount Waddington Family Literacy Society — C$82,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetClayoquot Biosphere Trust — C$79,642 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetLush Valley Food Action — C$79,211 over 5y, 13% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Cowichan Valley — C$78,275 over 5y, 13% of budgetClements Centre Society — C$76,620 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCowichan Valley Youth Services — C$74,250 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNanaimo Community Kitchens Society — C$72,792 over 5y, 32% of budgetCOWICHAN VALLEY HOSPICE — C$71,849 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetLaichwiltach Family Life — C$70,275 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHaven Society — C$67,079 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCowichan Green Community Foundation — C$66,697 over 4y, 10% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND CRISIS SOCIETY — C$65,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCowichan Women Against Violence — C$63,400 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNanaimo Brain Injury Society — C$60,525 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetLadysmith Resources Centre Association — C$56,497 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetPort Alberni Association for Community Living — C$53,448 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES — C$53,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Assoc. Mid-Island Branch — C$52,694 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNanaimo Citizen Advocacy Association — C$51,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetGreenways Landtrust — C$50,696 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNorth Island Crisis and Counselling Centre Society — C$49,343 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOceanside Hospice Society — C$46,993 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetComox Valley Senior Support Society — C$45,674 over 5y, 24% of budgetParent Support Services Society of BC — C$45,540 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBread of Life Centre — C$44,864 over 1y, 15% of budgetNanaimo Ladysmith Schools Foundation — C$43,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCowichan Family Life Association — C$42,300 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetSchool District No. 71 Comox Valley — C$41,108 over 2y, 29% of budget7-10 Club — C$39,666 over 4y, 13% of budgetVolunteer Cowichan — C$38,980 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetForward House — C$38,913 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetFirst Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo — C$38,685 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetNanaimo Food Share Network — C$36,819 over 4y, 2.8% 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.

Loaves and Fishes Com…Nanaimo Community Fou…Comox Valley Communit…Anglican Synod of the…First West FoundationChildren's Health Fou…Rotary Club of Lantzv…The Victoria Foundati…Campbell River Commun…Bc Government Employe…United Way British Co…The Board of Educatio…
Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank SocietyBC46.5× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society · Nanaimo Community Foundation · Comox Valley Community Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · First West Foundation · Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island · Rotary Club of Lantzville Society · The Victoria Foundation · Campbell River Community Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way British Columbia · The Board of Education of School District No. 68 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith)

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 279 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 2021-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 119260537:2021-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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