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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Willow Grove Foundation

During the year the charity continued to receive and review donation requests however it did not make any grants relying on the large amount of disbursements in the prior years.

C$1.6M
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$635k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$115k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$450k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.0M
C$50,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$285k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Simon Fraser UniversityC$635,000
Science World SocietyC$400,000
Salal foundationC$150,000
Raincoast FoundationC$150,000
North coast cetacean societyC$50,000
KidSafe Project SocietyC$50,000
Coast Conservation Endowment FundC$50,000
Bowen Island Health Centre FoundationC$40,000
Pacific Whale SocietyC$30,000
I-SEAC$25,000
Birds CanadaC$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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.0M · 21 repeat orgsC$595k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
19

Total granted

C$5.0M
C$595k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+54%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23
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

  • SF
    Simon Fraser University
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$1.4M · revenue +43%
  • SW
    Science World Society
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$940k · revenue +27%
  • RC
    Raincoast Conversation Foundation
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$456k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way Lower Mainlandgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$125k · revenue +27%
  • UW
    United Way Lower Mainland
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k
  • RC
    Royal Columbian Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$75k · revenue +141%

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
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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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
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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4
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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5
Pacific Wild Alliance

1. save bc wolves - our goal is to ensure that wolves have adequate habitat to continue their critical role as a keystone species. 2. protect pacific herring - we are working with central coast communities to highlight the importance of…

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6
Georgia Strait Alliance

Public Engagement – increasing the understanding of the importance of the health of Georgia Strait as a regional ecosystem and providing individuals and communities with the tools to take local and regional action to improve the health of…

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7
Salmon Coast Society

Salmon coast supports innovative research public education community outreach and ecosystem awareness to achieve lasting conservation measures for the lands and waters of the broughton archipelago and surrounding areas by: - helping…

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8
Canadian Coastal Research Society

Investigation of market mechanism to promote sustainable fishing practices. research and removal of marine debris from bc shore lines. research and reporting on the impacts of open netpen salmon farming on wild pacific salmon and their…

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9
T Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation

EDUCATE THE PUBLIC OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AS THE IMPORTANCE OF FISHERIES HABITAT CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC GROWTH AND FISHERIES HABITAT. Citizen science project empowering fish…

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10
The British Columbia Conservation Foundation

Land for wildlife: make financial contributions to land acquisitions; wildsafebc: provides public awareness to reduce human/wildlife conflict; wildlife collision prevention program: provides public awareness to prevent wildlife/vehicle…

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11
Canadian Wildlife Federation/FÉDÉRation Canadienne De La Faune

Cwf’s mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of canada’s wildlife and habitat for the use and enjoyment of all through research direct programming education and advocacy. cwf is recognized for our leadership in bringing…

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12
SkeenaWild Conservation Trust

Assess and report on the environment and ecological systems in the area. the purpose is the advancement of education and other purposes beneficial to the commmunity to make skeena wild salmonoid management a global model of ecological and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bc Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Windmill Microlending / Le Moulin Microcrédits. 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

38 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. 38 of the 40 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
33/38
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 budgetSimon Fraser University — C$1,355,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetScience World Society — C$940,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetRaincoast Conversation Foundation — C$456,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetCAF CANADA — C$450,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTides Canada — C$360,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetSalal foundation — C$310,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$240,794 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Sustainability Education & Action — C$175,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetNorth coast cetacean society — C$165,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetUnited Way Lower Mainland — C$125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKidSafe Project Society — C$105,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCOAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE OF CANADA — C$85,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPacific Whale Society — C$75,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetRoyal Columbian Hospital Foundation — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBowen Island Health Centre Foundation — C$70,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTIDES CANADA FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBIRDS CANADA — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHAW CENTRE FOR THE SALISH SEA — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetVancouver Board of Education — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING CHEFS SOCIETY — C$17,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPacific Salmon Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBILL REID GALLERY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetStrawberry Isle Marine Research Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetBC PARKS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOPE IN SHADOWS — C$9,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY — C$6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRyerson University — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA WILD ARTS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWISH DROP IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Committee — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRASER RIVER STURGEON CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Makeway FoundationVancity Community Fou…The Victoria Foundati…North Family Foundati…The Sitka FoundationThe McLean FoundationRaymond James Canada …The Annual FoundationBc Government Employe…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC13.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · North Family Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Annual Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia

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 40 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 898744016:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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