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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

A Cappella Foundation

It made gifts to 'qualified donees'

C$543k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$508k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$30k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$508k
C$20,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tomorrow Medical FoundationC$508,264
Vancouver Opera FoundationC$20,000
Okanagan Symphony SocietyC$10,000
Vancouver Society for Early MusicC$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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.5M · 7 repeat orgsC$55k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

C$1.5M
C$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+182%

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%’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

  • TM
    Tomorrow Medical Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +537% · 100% of their budget
  • BG
    Being Grateful Foundation
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$90k · revenue +31% · 44% of their budget
  • U
    UBC
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$85k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CU
    Canada Ukraine Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue -80%
  • CO
    Canadian Olympic Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$20k · revenue +43%
  • BB
    BUILDING BENEVOLENCE IN A COVID WORLDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue ×200 · 100% of their budget

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
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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2
Vancouver Symphony Foundation

Invest income earned on all funds. the vancouver symphony society is the beneficiary of the earned income.

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3
Vancouver Opera Endowment Trust Fund

Assisting organizations whose purpose is the development and production of opera in bc or elsewhere in canada.

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4
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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5
Virtual Vancouver Foundation

Making gifts to qualified donees

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6
Pacific Opera Victoria Foundation

Promotion and support of the aims interests and activities for the advancement of opera by the pacific opera victoria association.

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7
Foundation for the Victoria Symphony

Managing and investing funds (general + future fund) soliciting and collecting bequests + donations distributing funds to support music in victoria b.c.

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8
Adler University Vancouver Foundation

Making gifts to qualified donees

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9
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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10
Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation
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11
Vanchorverve Foundation

Making gifts to qualified donees

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12
Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Opera Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tomorrow Medical Foundation. 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

11 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
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 budgetTomorrow Medical Foundation — C$1,139,923 over 6y, 100% of budgetBeing Grateful Foundation — C$90,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetUBC — C$85,218 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Opera Foundation — C$85,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetVANCOUVER OPERA FOUNDATION — C$65,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOkanagan Symphony Society — C$50,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCanada Ukraine Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Olympic Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUILDING BENEVOLENCE IN A COVID WORLD — C$10,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetVancouver Society For Early Music — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation — C$5,000 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.

Zlc FoundationVancouver FoundationBenefAction FoundationAqueduct FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…Charitable Gift Funds…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Zlc FoundationBC7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance 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 11 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 2024-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 817305741:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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