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Burnaby, BC · Public foundation

United Way Southern Vancouver Island

We are committed to meaningful engagement collaboration and collective action to find solutions to systemic issues that lead us to a better future and stronger local communities.

C$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$2.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k67 grants · C$1.6M
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$375k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$3.3M
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Total Grant Distribution and Donor Directed GiftsC$2,624,204
Individual grant recipientC$412,006
Beacon Community ServicesC$250,000
Hulitan Family & Community ServicesC$100,000
Boys & Girls Club Services of Greater VictoriaC$70,000
Salt Spring & Southern Gulf Islands CommunityC$55,000
Victoria Native Friendship CentreC$50,000
Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives RoundtableC$50,000
Sooke Family Resource SocietyC$50,000
Songhees NationC$40,000
Soap for Hope CanadaC$36,350
Pacific Centre Family Services AssociationC$35,500
Oak Bay Volunteer Services SocietyC$35,000
Broadmead Care SocietyC$35,000
Mental Health Recovery Partners SocietyC$35,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 84% of grant dollars (C$22M). The 16% that went abroad (C$4.2M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 16% of all-years giving (C$4.2M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

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

03Your 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$20M · 103 repeat orgsC$6.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

103 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
80

Total granted

C$20M
C$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+23%

Still filing today

89%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3.4M 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

  • B
    BC211
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$847k · revenue +48%
  • IA
    Intercultural Association of Greater Victoria
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$687k · revenue +58%
  • VC
    Victoria Cool Aid Society
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$546k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · C$895k
  • OS
    Organizational Sector Effectiveness & Capacity
    one grant, 2018 · C$250k
  • CI
    Collective impact, Collaboration &Innovation
    one grant, 2018 · C$200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Victoria Society for Children With Autism

Providing programs to caregivers and parents of autistic children including a caregiver respite family food bank caregiver support events community autism library and family support events.

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4
Sea to Sky Community Services Society

The Society offers more then 42 programs in the Sea to Sky Corridor supported by various funding sources including individual donors foundations and government partners. Adult and Family Services provides clinical and therapeutic care for…

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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
Sunshine Coast Community Services Society

Family Youth & Children's Services programs are family-centered inclusive and promote active participation in supporting pregnant women new moms parents caregivers children and youth. We also provide programs in prevention intervention and…

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7
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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8
Comox Valley Family Services Association

The Association provides healthy support for children and families family development support and therapeutic counselling. The support and counselling is for individuals and in group environments.

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9
Greater Victoria Police Victim Services Society

Greater victoria police victim services (th 'society') is a local organization whose purpose involves working with police to help people impacted by crime and trauma. mandated services include critical incident response criminal justice…

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10
Richmond Mental Health Consumer & Friends Society

Peer Support Program (PSP) We provide one-to-one support and encouragement to Richmond-based mental health consumers who are recovering from a mental illness and receiving mental health services. Peer Support Social Group (PSSG) The PSSG…

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11
Affordable Housing: Vancouver Island Society
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12
Family Services of Greater Vancouver

Family services of greater vancouver is a local not-for-profit society providing crucial social services to children youth adults and families in the lower mainland since 1928. services provided range from prevention to intensive…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island and the most unlike its peers is We Rage We Weep Alzheimer 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

155 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. 155 of the 199 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
149/155
Grantees still filing
117/155
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 budgetBEACON COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$1,423,171 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetBC211 — C$847,204 over 7y, 11% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$720,265 over 8y, 52% of budgetBoys & Girls Club Services of Grater Victoria — C$701,397 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetIntercultural Association of Greater Victoria — C$687,280 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetVictoria Cool Aid Society — C$545,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSOOKE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$529,362 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetUmbrella Foundation for Addictions & Mental Health — C$456,000 over 8y, 66% of budgetVictoria Native Friendship Centre — C$392,020 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetVictoria Women's Sexual Assault Centre — C$385,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetVictoria Women's Transition House — C$380,530 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetPacific Centre Family Services — C$373,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetBurnside Gorge Community Association — C$364,530 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetBig Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria — C$361,000 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetIsland Deaf & Hard of Hearing — C$357,500 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetSalt Spring Island Community Services Society — C$351,775 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetAIDS Vancouver Island — C$344,900 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL — C$344,089 over 4y, 13% of budgetPacific Housing Advisory Association — C$340,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTogether Against Poverty Society — C$335,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetCridge Centre for the Family — C$318,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetProstitutes Empowerment Education & Resources Society — C$315,500 over 8y, 26% of budgetESQUIMALT NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCIETY — C$312,891 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY CHURCH — C$304,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetVictoria Immigrant & Refugee Centre Society — C$303,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetVictoria Brain Injury — C$288,443 over 8y, 15% of budgetBRIDGES FOR WOMEN SOCIETY — C$278,650 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetVICTORIA RAINBOW KITCHEN — C$265,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetSOOKE TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY — C$262,711 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetGarth Homer Society — C$261,670 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetVictoria Single Parent Resource Centre — C$255,370 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetNEED CRISIS & INFORMATION LINE — C$237,718 over 7y, 11% of budgetVictoria Youth Empowerment Society — C$210,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSaanich Neighbourhood Place — C$209,600 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetAnawim Companions Society — C$204,433 over 8y, 16% of budgetVICTORIA CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION & COUNSELLING CTR — C$190,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetFAMILY CAREGIVERS SOCIETY OF BC — C$185,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetGALIANO CLUB — C$175,690 over 8y, 18% of budgetLDABC LEARNING CURVE — C$171,252 over 8y, 28% of budgetOASIS SOCIETY FOR SPIRTUAL HEALTH — C$167,800 over 7y, 29% of budgetFERNWOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP SOCIETY — C$165,850 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetABORIGINAL COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — C$149,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetCIRCLE SALT SPRING EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$137,700 over 6y, 15% of budgetPARENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$135,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetSociety of Saint Vincent de Paul of VI — C$133,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER VICTORIA CITIZENS' COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$130,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS SOCIETY — C$130,000 over 6y, 98% of budgetCONNECTIONS PLACE — C$128,060 over 2y, 24% 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.

  • Who funds BEACON COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BC211 ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club Services of Grater Victoria ↗
  • Who funds Intercultural Association of Greater Victoria ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Cool Aid Society ↗
  • Who funds SOOKE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Umbrella Foundation for Addictions & Mental Health ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Native Friendship Centre ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Women's Sexual Assault Centre ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Women's Transition House ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Centre Family Services ↗
  • Who funds Burnside Gorge Community Association ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria ↗
  • Who funds Island Deaf & Hard of Hearing ↗
  • Who funds Salt Spring Island Community Services Society ↗
  • Who funds AIDS Vancouver Island ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Housing Advisory Association ↗
  • Who funds Together Against Poverty Society ↗
  • Who funds Cridge Centre for the Family ↗
  • Who funds Prostitutes Empowerment Education & Resources Society ↗
  • Who funds ESQUIMALT NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Immigrant & Refugee Centre Society ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Brain Injury ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES FOR WOMEN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA RAINBOW KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds SOOKE TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Garth Homer Society ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Single Parent Resource Centre ↗
  • Who funds NEED CRISIS & INFORMATION LINE ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Youth Empowerment Society ↗
  • Who funds Saanich Neighbourhood Place ↗
  • Who funds Anawim Companions Society ↗

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…Sovereign Order of St…First West FoundationRotary Club of Victor…The Sisters of Saint …Bc Government Employe…University of VictoriaThe Sara Spencer Foun…Vancity Community Fou…Anglican Synod of the…Broad View UnitedChildren's Health Fou…
The Victoria FoundationBC57× affinity133 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · First West Foundation · Rotary Club of Victoria - Harbourside Foundation · The Sisters of Saint Ann · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · University of Victoria · The Sara Spencer Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Broad View United · Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island

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 199 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 119278224:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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