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Victoria, BC · Charitable organization

University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

C$6.1M
Granted FY2023
56
Grants FY2023
5
Regions reached
C$4.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k41 grants · C$51k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$116k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$184k
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$5.7M
C$1,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$1.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Victoria FoundationC$4,679,585
Royal Roads UniversityC$445,474
University of British ColumbiaC$326,262
Western Canadian Universities Marine Science SocietyC$280,292
The Institute of Particle PhysicsC$184,000
First Nations University of CanadaC$15,000
British Columbia Civil Liberties AssociationC$11,906
Disability Alliance BC SocietyC$11,250
Wachiay Friendship Centre SocietyC$11,250
British Columbia Law InstituteC$11,250
Dixon Transition SocietyC$11,250
Society for Children and Youth of BCC$11,250
Penticton and Area Access SocietyC$11,250
Action Committee of People with Disabilities SocietyC$11,250
Surrounded By Cedar Child & FamilyC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$60M
Ontario
C$249k
Saskatchewan
C$17k
Quebec
C$8k
Alberta
C$6k
Manitoba
C$2k
New Brunswick
C$1k
Nova Scotia
C$400

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$59M · 67 repeat orgsC$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2023, 37 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
112

Total granted

C$59M
C$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+31%

Still filing today

97%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$102k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • UO
    University Of British Columbia
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$2.7M · revenue +43%
  • RR
    Royal Roads University
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$2.4M · revenue +29%
  • SF
    Simon Fraser University
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$1.2M · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of British Columbia
    one grant, 2017 · C$336k
  • CO
    College of the Rockies
    one grant, 2020 · C$326k · revenue +20%
  • CM
    Coast Mountain Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$204k · revenue +35%

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.

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University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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2
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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3
Vancouver Island University

Vancouver island university (viu) is an organization that values a diverse range of training and education. viu offers programs from basic literacy to vocational programs trades undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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4
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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5
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

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

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6
Columbia College

1) Provide university transfer courses and two year Associate Degrees in Arts and Science which are recognized (articulated) by universities in British Columbia and across Canada and certified by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education 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
Justice Institute of British Columbia

Jibc offers specialized applied education training and research in the fields of justice and public safety by: 1. providing certificate undergraduate graduate and professional training courses and programs; 2. providing students with…

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9
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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10
Citystudio Vancouver Society

Citystudio vancouver program: innovation hub that coordinates projects between the city of vancouver and local post-secondary institutions by bringing together city staff students faculty and community to co create experimental projects…

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11
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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12
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Place Society and the most unlike its peers is Triumf. 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

199 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. 199 of the 205 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)
54
Early backer (in before they grew)
191/199
Grantees still filing
154/199
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Victoria Foundation — C$44,373,645 over 6y, 90% of budgetWESTERN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES MARINE SCIENCES SOCIETY — C$3,082,770 over 7y, 18% of budgetUniversity Of British Columbia — C$2,696,240 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRoyal Roads University — C$2,356,780 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$1,172,203 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEmily Carr University Of Art & Desi — C$524,362 over 3y, 86% of budgetCAPILANO UNIVERSITY — C$512,570 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVancouver Community College — C$429,492 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetNorth Island College — C$426,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSELKIRK COLLEGE — C$406,949 over 2y, 19% of budgetOkanagan College — C$393,010 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCollege of the Rockies — C$326,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThompson Rivers University — C$310,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCamosun College — C$280,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetDouglas College — C$240,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKwantlen Polytechnic University — C$223,199 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCoast Mountain College — C$204,273 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNicola Valley Inst of Technology — C$200,808 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLangara College — C$177,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCollege of New Caledonia — C$174,167 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBC Institute of Technology — C$84,280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Fraser Valley — C$78,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndspire — C$68,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVictoria Native Friendship Centre — C$65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$44,297 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPenticton & Area Access Society — C$33,300 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetDisability Alliance BC — C$33,300 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED RESEARCH — C$31,520 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetSurrounded By Cedar Child & Family — C$29,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$27,252 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Shore Community Resources Society — C$22,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTogether Against Poverty Society — C$22,050 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetChimo Community Services Society — C$22,050 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUPPER SKEENA COUNSELLING AND LEGAL — C$21,600 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetVictoria Film Festival — C$20,600 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVerna J Kirkness Education Foundation — C$20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCarleton University — C$18,129 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Nations University of Canada — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Victoria — C$14,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetWest Coast LEAF — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBritish Columbia Civil Liberties Association — C$11,906 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNelson CARES Society — C$11,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDixon Transition Society — C$11,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKi-Low-Na Friendship Society — C$11,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWachiay Friendship Centre Society — C$11,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBritish Columbia Law Institute — C$11,250 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSeniors First BC Society — C$11,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAction Committee of People with Disabilities Society — C$11,250 over 1y, 3.7% 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 Victoria Foundati…United Way Southern V…The Sisters of Saint …Anglican Synod of the…Vancity Community Fou…Bc Government Employe…First West FoundationCentral Okanagan Burs…Sovereign Order of St…Times Colonist Litera…Broad View UnitedCredit Union Foundati…
The Victoria FoundationBC31.8× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · The Sisters of Saint Ann · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · First West Foundation · Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · Times Colonist Literacy Society · Broad View United · Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia

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 205 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 2023-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 108162470:2023-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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