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Wilson 5 Foundation

The foundation does not carry on charitable programs or activities directly.

C$28M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$25M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$66k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$28M
C$922,933
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$330M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC PARKS FOUNDATIONC$25,000,000
Individual grant recipientC$2,347,164
FSHD CANADA FOUNDATIONC$922,933
GLOBAL CIVIC POLICY SOCIETYC$65,878
WEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY CENTRES SERVICES SOCIETYC$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$94M · 14 repeat orgsC$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
32

Total granted

C$94M
C$9.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.4M 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

  • BP
    BC PARKS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$79M · revenue ×13 · 42% of their budget
  • FC
    FSHD CANADA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$9.1M · revenue +825% · 58% of their budget
  • KP
    KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$2.3M · revenue +127% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$6.0M · revenue +28%
  • VC
    VANCOUVER COLLEGE MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$2.0M · revenue -40%
  • WP
    WEST POINT GREY ACADEMY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$500k · revenue +34%

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
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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2
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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3
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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4
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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5
Vancouver Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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6
British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation

The bcit foundation raises funds to further the goals and objectives of british columbia institute of technology ('bcit') for the development and expansion of the education programs services capital projects and other initiatives as…

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7
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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8
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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9
Pacific Rim Foundation

The charity creates establishes and distributes student scholarships and bursaries to advance education for the pacific rim region of b.c. capital funds are raised and secured to provide funding for the grants.

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10
Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation
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11
West Vancouver Community Foundation

With a focus on philanthropy grants and leadership our vision is a healthy and vibrant west vancouver where everyone is valued contributes and feels they belong. the west vancouver foundation offers our donors expert assistance in learning…

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12
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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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 Atira Development 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

43 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. 43 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBC PARKS FOUNDATION — C$79,000,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetFSHD CANADA FOUNDATION — C$9,055,779 over 6y, 58% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$6,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetKWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$2,340,710 over 4y, 42% of budgetVANCOUVER COLLEGE MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE LOON FOUNDATION — C$1,700,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,050,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWEST POINT GREY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — C$500,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUBC DEVELOPMENT ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT — C$180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHISTLER FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY — C$150,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetGLOBAL CIVIC POLICY SOCIETY — C$140,878 over 4y, 18% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dr Sun Yat-Sen Garden Society of Vancouver — C$95,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetIMAGINE 1 DAY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION — C$88,574 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAtira Development Society — C$55,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLOVE IS THE ANSWER — C$28,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of British Columbia — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVancouver School Board — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENDER HARBOUR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSQUAMISH TRAILS SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE FRASER INSTITUTE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY CENTRES SERVICES SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFACE THE WORLD FOUNDATION — C$19,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$10,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$10,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDr. Peter Aids Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLUSEC-PLURALISM HUMAN AND SUSTAINABILITY CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSQUAMISH HOPITAL FOUNDATION — C$6,825 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFERTILE FUTURE — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDINOSAUR FOOTBALL'S 5TH QUARTER ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWHISTLER SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWar Child Canada — C$1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE CHARITY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanucks Autism Network Society — C$1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIMP: CHARITABLE IMPACTFOUNDATION (CANADA) — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSawa World Foundation — C$800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVancouver Island Autistic Homes Society — C$700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURNABY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON — C$100 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…Zlc FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationAqueduct FoundationRaymond James Canada …Conam Charitable Foun…The McLean McCuaig Fo…Timothy A. Young Fami…Peter & Joanne Brown …Whistler Blackcomb Fo…Djavad Mowafaghian Fo…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC14.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The McLean McCuaig Foundation · Timothy A. Young Family Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Society · Djavad Mowafaghian 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.

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 822979308:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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