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Burlington, ON · Private foundation

Waves Foundation

The Foundation made 5 donations to registered charities during the course on the year.

C$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$20,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Transition Salt SpringC$20,000
Indian Residential School SurvivorsC$20,000
Dans La RueC$20,000
Cool Aid VictoriaC$20,000
Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver IslandC$20,000
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$194k · 4 repeat orgsC$136k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

C$194k
C$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+66%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • VC
    Victoria Cool Aid Society
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$59k · revenue +27%
  • BA
    BC aboriginal Child Care Society
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$35k · revenue +251%
  • AS
    Alzheimers society of Canada
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$35k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FARLEY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k · revenue +115%
  • PF
    PEGUIS FOUNDATION INC.
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k · revenue -68%
  • AO
    Association of Neighbourhood Housegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +66%

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
United Way British Columbia

Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province. We support healthy caring and inclusive communities by strengthening vital connections to help ensure the health…

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2
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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3
Nutritionlink Services Society

Nutritionlink services society (nls) promotes and enhances eating choices for people and communities in british columbia. nls works in collaboration with others to enhance individuals' ability to make healthy food choices. nls supports the…

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4
Alzheimer Society of B.C.

The Alzheimer Society of B.C. is committed to ensuring people affected by dementia are not alone and have the confidence and skills to live the best life possible. First Link? dementia support is the organization’s suite of programs and…

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5
Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch

Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…

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6
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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7
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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8
Affordable Housing: Vancouver Island Society
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9
Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy food to those in need. The Society provides food support to approximately 16 000 children adults and seniors monthly through its…

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10
Indwell Community Homes

Indwell creates and operates affordable housing communities that support people seeking health wellness and belonging. Indwell's affordable supportive housing programs primarily support individuals with low incomes and disabilities…

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11
People for a Healthy Community On Gabriola Society

We are a community based not for profit organization serving Gabriola Island. We support individuals and families during vulnerable times in their lives while strengthening community resilience. Vulnerability can occur at any stage of life…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Farley Foundation. 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

14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
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 budgetChildrens Health Foundation of Vancouver Island — C$65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVictoria Cool Aid Society — C$59,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBC aboriginal Child Care Society — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAlzheimers society of Canada — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDans La Rue — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTransition Salt Spring — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE FARLEY FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetIndian Residential School Survivors — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEGUIS FOUNDATION INC. — C$20,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetAssociation of Neighbourhood House — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHalton Food for Thought — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVancouver Island Mental Health Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKVILLE MEALS ON WHEELS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Western Communiti…First West FoundationBc Government Employe…The Victoria Foundati…Aqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Charitable Gift Funds…BenefAction FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…
The Western Communities FoundationAB7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Western Communities Foundation · First West Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Victoria Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)

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 14 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 748319688:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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