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North Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Wheeler Family Foundation

The foundation makes ...

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$235k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$17k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$52k
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$1.2M
C$80,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MSFC$235,000
UNITED WAYC$180,000
RIGHT TO LEARNC$125,000
NATURE TRUSTC$100,000
PACIFIC SALMONC$100,000
SWAZI KIDSC$100,000
CARE CDNC$90,000
RED XC$80,000
SWAZI KIDSC$80,000
VAN ISL UNIVC$80,000
ALZHEIMERC$25,000
STEPHAN LEWISC$15,000
ACTION CANADAC$12,000
SECOND MILEC$5,000
BC SPCAC$5,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.9M · 31 repeat orgsC$284k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
13

Total granted

C$4.9M
C$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+7%

Still filing today

90%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$205k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • M
    MSF
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$730k · revenue +47%
  • SK
    SWAZI KIDS
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$676k · revenue +97% · 75% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$565k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IA
    INTERCULTURAL ASC.
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k

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
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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2
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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3
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Society Branch

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation services. The Centre investigates and evaluates the occurrence…

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4
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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5
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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6
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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7
West Coast Leaf Association

West Coast LEAF uses four key program strategies: (1) public legal education and information; (2) research; (3) community engagement; and (4) advocacy in and outside of court. We apply these strategies across our work within six priority…

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8
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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9
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is 3H Craftworks 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

35 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. 35 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
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 budgetMSF — C$730,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSWAZI KIDS — C$675,551 over 7y, 75% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$565,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWESTMINSTER HOUSE — C$468,920 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetRIGHT TO LEARN — C$375,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetNATURE TRUST — C$360,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetRED X — C$300,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON — C$287,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBRAIN CANADA — C$135,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVAN ISL UNIV — C$120,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$117,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetECO JUSTICE — C$110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER — C$98,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWAKADOGO — C$73,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetUKRAINIAN/CANADIAN FNDTN — C$70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIntercultural Asc. — C$70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHAN LEWIS — C$53,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFICA — C$37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEXUAL HEALTH — C$30,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND MILE — C$25,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budget1 UP — C$22,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBC SPCA — C$19,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA — C$19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW KITCHEN / VICTORIA FDNT — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAQUARIUM — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetamnesty — C$9,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMON THREAD — C$3,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKNOWLEDGE NETWORK — C$3,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA'S ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET — C$3,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUDAIN — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuide dogs — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCO OP RADIO — C$1,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCROSS REACH — C$1,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds MSF ↗
  • Who funds SWAZI KIDS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds RIGHT TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds NATURE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds RED X ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC SALMON ↗
  • Who funds BRAIN CANADA ↗
  • Who funds VAN ISL UNIV ↗
  • Who funds CARE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ECO JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER ↗
  • Who funds WAKADOGO ↗
  • Who funds UKRAINIAN/CANADIAN FNDTN ↗
  • Who funds Intercultural Asc. ↗
  • Who funds STEPHAN LEWIS ↗
  • Who funds PACIFICA ↗
  • Who funds SEXUAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds SECOND MILE ↗
  • Who funds 1 UP ↗
  • Who funds BC SPCA ↗
  • Who funds YWCA ↗
  • Who funds RAINBOW KITCHEN / VICTORIA FDNT ↗
  • Who funds AQUARIUM ↗
  • Who funds amnesty ↗
  • Who funds COMMON THREAD ↗
  • Who funds KNOWLEDGE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CANADA'S ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Cancer 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.

Vancity Community Fou…The Victoria Foundati…Raymond James Canada …Bc Government Employe…Vancouver FoundationAqueduct FoundationUnited Way British Co…The Sitka FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Canada GivesZlc FoundationThe Board of Educatio…
Vancity Community FoundationBC12.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancouver Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The Sitka Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Canada Gives · Zlc Foundation · The Board of Education of School District No. 61 (Greater Victoria)

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 48 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 851876888:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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