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Victoria Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation

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C$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$73k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONC$20,000
BC BURN FUNDC$14,933
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHYC$14,152
MAUI FIREFIGHTERS UNION LOCAL 1463 CHARITYC$13,772
WEST KELOWNA FIREFIGHTERS UNION LOCAL 4457 CHARITYC$10,000
SANTA'S ANNOYMOUSC$6,500
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$3,736
TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONC$2,500
MUSTARD SEEDC$1,874
NATIONAL LITTLE LEAGUEC$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$275k · 10 repeat orgsC$54k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

C$275k
C$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$33k 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

  • VH
    VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$79k · revenue +167%
  • BB
    BC BURN FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$50k · revenue +67%
  • SA
    SANTA'S ANNOYMOUS
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$35k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAANICH FIREFIGHTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$6k
  • CO
    City of Victoria Campership
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k
  • CO
    CITY OF VICTORIA
    one grant, 2018 · C$4k

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
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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2
Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island

1. grants-provided to organizations and major initiatives that focus on removing barriers and creating opportunities for children and youth with disabilities or health challenges. grants include program equipment mental health and bear…

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3
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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4
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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5
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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6
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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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
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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9
Child Development Foundation of British Columbia

Funds promotes and provides leadership in bc in all aspects of child development through research training and development of rehabilitation techniques and equipment. funds facilitates and promotes program such as communication therapy…

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10
Vancouver Fire Fighters' Charitable Society

Raise fund for certain charities who carry out medical and health care research - assisted members in the community who have been affected by traumatic wounds injuries or incidents through referrals to burn organizations - give bursaries…

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Help Fill a Dream Foundation of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone Youth Society. 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

21 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. 21 of the 31 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$78,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Canada — C$57,979 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBC BURN FUND — C$49,933 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA'S ANNOYMOUS — C$35,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMD BOOT DRIVE — C$23,454 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$5,736 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaanich Fire Fighters Charitable — C$3,350 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetVICTORIA CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND COUNSELLING — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER TO GIVE — C$1,042 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL LITTLE LEAGUE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS — C$750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFirst Nations Emergency Services Society of BC — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelp Fill a Dream Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOUTH SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDISASTER AID CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetExtreme Outreach Society — C$300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY GIFTCARDS FOR ONEUP — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUMBRELLA SOCIETY — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Bc Government Employe…United Way Southern V…First West FoundationCIBC Foundation / Fon…The Board of Educatio…Sovereign Order of St…Vancity Community Fou…Saanich Fire Fighters…United Way British Co…Telus Employees Chari…Vancouver Foundation
The Victoria FoundationBC15.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · First West Foundation · CIBC Foundation / Fondation CIBC · The Board of Education of School District No. 61 (Greater Victoria) · Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Saanich Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Vancouver 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 31 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 853203529:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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