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Victoria, BC · Charitable organization

Victoria Natural History Society

Hold regular meetings & presentations to further knowledge of natural history topics.

C$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$22k
C$6,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Habitat Acquisition TrustC$11,518
Rocky Point Bird ObservatoryC$10,000
University of VictoriaC$6,000
BC Conservation FoundationC$5,000
Society for the Advancement of Young Scientists (SAYS)C$1,000
Camosun FoundationC$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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$216k · 10 repeat orgsC$19k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

C$216k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+158%
+296%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • RP
    Rocky Point Bird Observatory
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$55k · revenue +158%
  • HA
    Habitat Acquisition Trust
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$52k · revenue +183%
  • UO
    University of Victoria
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$32k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • FO
    Federation of British Columbia Naturalists (BC Nature)
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -21%
  • SL
    Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary
    one grant, 2023 · C$7k
  • PP
    Pollinator Partnership Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue +296%

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
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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2
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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3
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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4
Victoria Natural History Society

Hold regular meetings & presentations to further knowledge of natural history topics. Operated Facebook page and hosted website concerning all activities and programs of the Society. Published the Victoria Naturalist journal six times a…

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5
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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6
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists

Nature Nova Scotia (also known as the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) exists to aid in the communication and cooperation among naturalists natural history societies and other nature-focused groups in Nova Scotia. We profile and…

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7
Comox Valley Naturalists Society

Conduct public education programs on natural history & environmental ecology with emphasis on but not limited to the comox valley. work with local government on habitat protection & restoration. manage invasive plant eradication & native…

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8
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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9
Vancouver Avian Research Centre Society

VARC has 2 main programs - Bird Research and Public Outreach and Education. We continued with both of these in 2021. The bird research includes a banding station at Colony Farm Park a large Bluebird nest box project in Merritt and a number…

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10
British Columbia Foundation for Non Animal Research

Bc fnar continued to accept applications and provide grants to students and researchers in the bio-sciences engaging with the developing non-animal methods.

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11
Bc Naturalists' Foundation

Provide grants to federation of bc naturalists for distribution of its member clubs. the federation of bc naturalists is a province-wide organization of about 50 naturalist clubs with approximately 5 500 members. the federation's primary…

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12
Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada

Birds Canada is a leading national charitable organization dedicated to bird conservation. Every day our thousands of caring donors 100+ passionate staff and 70 000+ outstanding Citizen Science volunteers are taking action to help us…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary Society and the most unlike its peers is Mers Marine Education and Research 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
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 budgetRocky Point Bird Observatory — C$54,500 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetHabitat Acquisition Trust — C$51,518 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSwan Lake Christmas hill Nature Sanctuary — C$30,163 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBC Conservation Foundation — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCowichan Valley Naturalists Society — C$10,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetRoyal Roads University — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFederation of British Columbia Naturalists (BC Nature) — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCamosun Foundation — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for the Advancement of Young Scientists (SAYS) — C$5,500 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetPollinator Partnership Canada — C$1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMarine Education and Research Society — C$414 over 3y, 0.1% 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…Td Friends of the Env…Bc Government Employe…Vancouver FoundationBenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Victoria FoundationBC11.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 13 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 charitable organization under public amenities.

Source object 119284347:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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