North Vancouver, BC · Private foundation
Wee Waifs Worldwide Trust
We gift funds to qualified donees that work to relieve poverty and that provide medical aid to people around the world and those that care for abused or abandoned animals.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lifewater Canada | C$7,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | C$5,000 |
| JHOA - Jaaja's Home of Angels Society | C$5,000 |
| Operation Rainbow Canada | C$1,000 |
| Victoria Hand Project | C$1,000 |
| OWL - Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society | C$500 |
| BC Conservation Foundation | C$500 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- LCLifewater Canada7× · 2018–2024 · C$68k · revenue +260%
- DWDoctors Without Borders4× · 2017–2024 · C$12k · revenue +47%
- WCWar Child Canada2× · 2017–2019 · C$8k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- TRTHE ROTARY CLUB OF WESTSHORE SUNRISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · C$6k · revenue -99%
- CFCanada-Ukraine Foundationone grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue -80%
- GMGlobal Medic (David McAntony Gibson Foundation)one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Helping animals get rescued rehabilitated and released when they are injured or orphaned.
To rescue rehabilitate & reintegrate injured & orphaned wildlife into their natural habitateas well as to advance the public's awareness and understanding about the proper response to wildlife found sick injuredand/or orphanedin the wild…
Rehabilitation of injured orphaned ill and displaced wildlife educate the public about living with wildlife
Providing care for distressed animals
Alleviate animal suffering animal and wildlife rescue
The charity specializes in major international disasters.
Research rehabilitation and breeding of owls
World Animal Protection carries out programs to address the systems that cause cruelty and suffering to animals around the globe. We care for and provide sanctuary for captive wildlife that cannot be returned to the wild. We undertake…
Nwrf will continue to order purchase mix and deliver life saving recourses needed for the life saving care of orphaned injured and sick babies juveniles and adult wildlife. the distraught public brings as many as 50 000 wild animals in…
Education on wildlife natural history rehabilitation coexistence and resolving issues Rehabilitation for injured and orphaned wild mammals
To promote health in medically underserved developing countries by funding health care services and supplies for individuals who are in urgent need of aid; and to relieve poverty in developing countries by providing basic necessities…
Provided medical and rehabilitative care to injured sick and orphaned wildlife
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Rainbow Canada and the most unlike its peers is First Steps Health Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Lifewater Canada ↗
- Who funds Jaaja's Home of Angels Society ↗
- Who funds Doctors Without Borders ↗
- Who funds War Child Canada ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY CLUB OF WESTSHORE SUNRISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Guatemala Stove Project ↗
- Who funds Kuwasha International Development Society ↗
- Who funds One Girl Can Society ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth's Wildlife Centre Society ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RAINBOW CANADA ↗
- Who funds Northerm Lights Wildlife Society ↗
- Who funds Shelterbox Canada ↗
- Who funds Canada-Ukraine Foundation ↗
- Who funds Victoria Hand Project ↗
- Who funds Global Medic (David McAntony Gibson Foundation) ↗
- Who funds OWL Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society ↗
- Who funds Team Broken Earth ↗
- Who funds BC Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds Critter Care Wildlife Society ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Greyhaven Exotic Bird Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds Saints - Senior Animals in Need Today 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.
Open a dossier: Leon Judah Blackmore Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · First West Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Abbotsford Community Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Givewise Foundation Canada · BenefAction 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.