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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Al Roadburg Foundation

Making of gifts to 'qualified donees'

C$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$39k
  • C$10k–50k16 grants · C$333k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$535k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$4.9M
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERISTY OF JERUSALEMC$1,368,550
CANADIAN MAGEN DAVIDC$1,000,000
CANADIAN MAGEN DAVIDC$1,000,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$1,000,000
BATTERED WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICESC$500,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$100,000
VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR THE SUVIVORS OF TORTUREC$100,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$100,000
KINGDOM ACTS FOUNDATIONC$85,000
PIONEER COMMUNITY LIVING ASSOCIATIONC$50,000
PHS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$50,000
LOULE BRIER JEWISH AGED FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CANADIAN MAGEN DAVIDC$30,000
CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICEC$30,000
DECODA FOUNDATIONC$30,000
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$22M · 78 repeat orgsC$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

78 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
78

Total granted

C$22M
C$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+41%

Still filing today

92%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$119k 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

  • TH
    TIKVAH HOUSING SOCIETY
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$10M · revenue +262%
  • CF
    CANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERISTY OF JERUSALEM
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2.9M · revenue +54%
  • CM
    CANADIAN MAGEN DAVID
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • FF
    FIRST FUNDS SOCEITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$1.5M · revenue +1%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$1.3M · revenue -40%
  • EF
    ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER
    one grant, 2022 · C$240k · revenue +20%

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
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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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
Variety - the Children's Charity of Bc

Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations. Variety funds renovations equipment…

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5
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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6
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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11
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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12
B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation

The foundation provides financial and human resources to charitable not for profit groups focused on community service. the foundation provides grants to qualified donees that provide services in the areas of: social services education and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change the World Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rock Creek Community Medical 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

150 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. 150 of the 162 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)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
145/150
Grantees still filing
122/150
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 budgetTIKVAH HOUSING SOCIETY — C$10,045,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERISTY OF JERUSALEM — C$2,871,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetCANADIAN MAGEN DAVID — C$1,388,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$1,250,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$1,070,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCANADIAN MAGEN DAVID — C$1,045,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetBELT HALOCHEM — C$610,400 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetDR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$538,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetBATTERED WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES — C$519,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetYWCA — C$517,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetZAJAC FOUNDATION — C$508,500 over 3y, 37% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$320,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$320,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$240,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetST. PAUL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$221,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$219,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR THE SUVIVORS OF TORTURE — C$202,468 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetPIONEER COMMUNITY LIVING ASSOCIATION — C$150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTRE OF — C$116,500 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetLOULE BRIER JEWISH AGED FOUNDATION — C$115,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetA LOVING SPOONFUL MEALS SOCIETY — C$108,637 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetFace the World Foundation — C$100,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$86,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKINGDOM ACTS FOUNDATION — C$85,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPHS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKETTLE SOCIETY — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE — C$63,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetDECODA FOUNDATION — C$62,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISREAL FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$60,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBC Children's Hospital — C$57,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetQuest Outreach Society — C$55,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — C$52,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING SOCIETY — C$50,500 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetJACK WEBSTER FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetKINBRACE COMMUNITY SOCIETY — C$47,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOC — C$44,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER WRITERS FEST — C$43,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetChimp — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MIRIAM — C$39,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetWISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$30,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYELLOWKNIFE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S PLACE — C$29,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WAR AMPS — C$29,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITALS — C$23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOM GROUP — C$22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLIND BEGINNINGS — C$22,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$22,000 over 5y, 0.4% 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.

Lohn FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Jewish Federation of …Vancity Community Fou…Diamond FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationThe Hamber FoundationMel and Geri Davis Ch…The Joseph Segal Fami…United Way British Co…The Dayhu Family Foun…
Lohn FoundationBC39.5× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lohn Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The Dayhu Family 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 162 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 887696755:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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