Victoria, BC · Charitable organization
West Shore Poppy Fund Committee
Providing financial assistance and support including medical appliances and equipment to veterans and their families who are in need; to drop-in centres and services in the community where veterans would benefit; provide bursaries and poster & literary awards to school children of veterans and in the community and to provide support to…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under C$10k13 grants · C$45k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | C$20,000 |
| LEGION FOUNDATION - VANCOUVER ISLAND COMPASSION DOGS PROGRAM | C$5,000 |
| LEGION FOUNDATION - COCKRELL HOUSE - SMVIZ HOUSING SOCIETY | C$5,000 |
| WESCOM MEDI-LEND SOCIETY | C$5,000 |
| BROADMEAD CARE FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| PRIORY HOSPITAL - VICTORIA ELDER CARE FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| WEST SHORE ADULT DAY PROGRAM - VICTORIA ELDERCARE FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| LEGION FOUNDATION - VETERANS TRANSITION | C$3,000 |
| LEGION FOUNDATION - BCIT MILITARY SKILLS PROGRAM | C$2,000 |
| LEGION FOUNDATION - LEGION MANOR | C$2,000 |
| 848 ROYAL ROADS AIR CADETS | C$2,000 |
| 2483 PPCLI ARMY CADETS | C$2,000 |
| 263 RCSCC BEACON HILL SEA CADETS | C$2,000 |
| NLCC ADMIRAL FALLS NAVY LEAGUE CADETS | C$2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 89% of grant dollars (C$247k). The 11% that went abroad (C$29k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 11% of all-years giving (C$29k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +93% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$28k 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
- LFLegion Foundation - SMVIZ Housing Society - Cockrell House7× · 2017–2023 · C$97k · revenue +93%
- GVGREATER VICTORIA ELDER CARE FOUNDATION - WEST SHORE ADULT DA7× · 2017–2023 · C$70k · revenue +337%
- BCBroadmead Care Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · C$35k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- LFLegion Foundation-RCEL, Commonwealth Ex-Service Leagueone grant, 2017 · C$2k
- RCROYAL COMMONWEALTH EX-SERVICES LEAGUEone grant, 2022 · C$1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
6 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. 6 of the 12 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.
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 Legion Foundation - SMVIZ Housing Society - Cockrell House ↗
- Who funds GREATER VICTORIA ELDER CARE FOUNDATION - WEST SHORE ADULT DA ↗
- Who funds Broadmead Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESCOM MEDI-LEND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER ISLAND COMPASSION DOGS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Legion Foundation-RCEL, Commonwealth Ex-Service League ↗
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: Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.