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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Windward Foundation

Grants in the form of donations to other registered charities.

C$133k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$102k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$21k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$102k
C$2,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADAC$102,000
VGH AND UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
THE KELTY PATRICK DENNEHY FOUNDATIONC$4,000
UNIVERSTIY OF VICTORIA FOUNDATIONC$2,500
KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$2,500
THE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETYC$2,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$2,000
HOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESSC$1,000
BCSPCAC$1,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$1,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$794k · 20 repeat orgsC$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

C$794k
C$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
100%

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%’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

  • BC
    BRENTWOOD COLLEGE ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$100k · revenue +29%
  • MP
    MISSION POSSIBLE
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$36k · revenue +152%
  • LG
    LOOKING GLASS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$33k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • GF
    GIVEWISE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +27%
  • AA
    Adam's Apples Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$2k · revenue +56%
  • RJ
    RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue +72%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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5
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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6
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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7
Langara College Foundation

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

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8
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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9
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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10
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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11
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Brentwood College Association. 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

28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
22/28
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 budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$440,227 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBRENTWOOD COLLEGE ASSOCIATION — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE — C$35,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLOOKING GLASS FOUNDATION — C$32,900 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBC Children's Hospital — C$31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBCSPCA — C$30,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVGH AND UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEWISE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHISTLER HEALTH — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KELTY PATRICK DENNEHY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSTIY OF VICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATION — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAdam's Apples Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESS — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORATIVE JUSTICE SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEST UNIVERSITY CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dugout Drop-In Centre Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — C$500 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…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…Beedie FoundationVancity Community Fou…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Raymond James Canada …Charitable Gift Funds…BenefAction FoundationAqueduct FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC13.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Beedie Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 28 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 769369711:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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