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Victoria, BC · Private foundation

Westerkirk Foundation

The Foundation carries out the program of making gifts to qualified donees that carry out charitable activities furthering the relief of poverty the advancement of education and the advancement of the public's appreciation of the arts.

C$103k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$49k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$12k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$91k
C$3,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Carleton UniversityC$48,948
Muslim Welfare CanadaC$20,000
YWCA TorontoC$12,000
The Mustard SeedC$10,015
Town of LincolnC$3,000
Belfry TheatreC$3,000
University of TorontoC$3,000
Georgian Triangle Humane SocietyC$1,500
Ontario Crafts CouncilC$1,500
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$300k · 9 repeat orgsC$27k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

C$300k
C$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+55%

Still filing today

89%
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

  • YT
    YWCA Toronto
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$99k · revenue +47%
  • CU
    Carleton University
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$88k · revenue +11%
  • TM
    The Mustard Seed
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$40k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • QC
    QAJUQTURVIK COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +48%
  • TU
    The University of British Columbiagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +55%
  • CK
    Classical King FM 98.1
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k

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
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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2
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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3
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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4
York University

York University provided the following programs/activities: - Undergraduate degree programs - Graduate degree programs - Non-credit courses - Sponsored research - Ancillary operations (for the benefit of students)

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5
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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6
The Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology

Georgian College is an educational institution that provides full-time post secondary programs including partnerships with various universities providing upgrading trades and apprenticeship programs career interest courses and provides…

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7
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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8
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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9
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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10
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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11
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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12
Simon Fraser University

Sfu offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the faculties of applied science arts and social services beedie school of business education environment health sciences sciences and communication arts and technology. the university…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre and the most unlike its peers is The Mustard Seed Street Church. 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

10 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYWCA Toronto — C$99,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCarleton University — C$87,775 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustard Seed — C$40,015 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetArctic food bank - Muslim Welfare Canada — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQAJUQTURVIK COMMUNITY FOOD CENTR — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Belfry Theatre Society — C$12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of British Columbia — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgian Triangle Humane Society — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOntario Crafts Council — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

Private Giving Founda…Toronto FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Private Giving FoundationON8.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Private Giving Foundation · Toronto 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 12 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 846571875:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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