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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation

To receive donations and make grants to qualified donees.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$57k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$97k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$537k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$400k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$400,000
VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$166,667
VANCOUVER OPERAC$110,000
UNITED WAY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$110,000
CARE CANADAC$50,000
VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$50,000
BARD ON THE BEACH THEATRE SOCIETYC$50,000
VANCOUVER YOUTH CHOIRC$25,000
ST. PAULS FOUNDATIONC$25,000
PACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA ASSOCIATIONC$16,500
THE STANDING WAVE SOCIETYC$10,000
VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETYC$10,000
VANCOUVER CANTANA SOCIETYC$10,000
VANCOUVER KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVALSC$7,500
VANCOUVER ISLAND SYMPHONYC$7,500
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.1M · 24 repeat orgsC$280k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
13

Total granted

C$4.1M
C$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+57%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • VU
    VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$967k · revenue +34%
  • VS
    VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$850k · revenue +32%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$690k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • VS
    VSO School of Music Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$125k · revenue +63%
  • VO
    Vancouver Operagraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$75k · revenue +110%
  • CU
    CAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue -8%

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
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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2
Vancouver Philharmonic Society

The Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra is a full symphonic orchestra whose members are amateur musicians and students. The members perform in and manage the orchestra as volunteers. Five concerts of orchestral mostly classical music are…

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3
Victoria Summer Music Festival Society

The Victoria Summer Music Festival (VSMF) brings local Canadian and international musicians to Victoria to perform high-calibre chamber music. In 2024 the VSMF presented five evening concerts and one afternoon concert during July and…

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4
Vancouver Chamber Music Society

Concert performance; outreach concert

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5
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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6
Vancouver New Music Society

Over the 2023-24 season vancouver new music presented many free community based events. these included community workshops public installations and online presentations. in addition the 2023-24 series included many paid concerts

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7
Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Society

Conducts a competition to award scholarship to bc youth studying music. provide educational workshops master classes and seminars to young musicians in british columbia.

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8
Pro Musica Society of Vancouver

Vancouver Pro Musica Society's principal activities include presentation and promotion of new works by British Columbia composers. Since its inception in 1986 the organization has proudly presented hundreds of premieres by talented…

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9
Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society

Working towards building a new concert hall and theatre in vancouver.

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10
Turning Point Ensemble

Based in Vancouver British Columbia Turning Point Ensemble is a large ensemble (core 16 instrumentalists) recognized for its outstanding musicianship. Founded in 2002 by its musician members Turning Point has a mandate to increase the…

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11
Richmond Music Festival Society

Richmond Music Festival Society organizes music festivals for the young music students of Greater Vancouver Area in various disciplines including piano strings guitar wood winds brass and voice. Richmond Music Festival Society organizes…

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12
The Greater Vancouver Vivaldi Chamber Choir Society

Over the past year the vivaldi chamber choir has enjoyed the return of live rehearsals and performances. we were delighted to see the return of concert-goers and to see many new faces in our audience. the choir produced three live concerts…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Symphony Society and the most unlike its peers is Glitch Theatre 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

41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
33/41
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 budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$966,667 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$850,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$690,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER OPERA — C$490,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$155,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCare Canada — C$135,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET BC — C$132,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVSO School of Music Society — C$125,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA ASSOCIATION — C$106,500 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH THEATRE SOCIETY — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVancouver Opera — C$75,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$63,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST. PAULS FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetToronto Symphony Orchestra — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER YOUTH CHOIR — C$47,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetARTHRITIS RESEARCH CANADA — C$40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMusic in the Morning Concert Society — C$25,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetArts Club Theatre Company — C$25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVALS — C$25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVETTA CHAMBAR MUSIC — C$14,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetVANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR — C$13,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND SYMPHONY — C$12,200 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVANCOUVER CANTANA SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE STANDING WAVE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHOR LEONI — C$9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER CHOPIN SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOASTAL JAZZ AND BLUES SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Sarah McLachlan School of Music — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC ALZHEIMER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND SCHOOL OF ART — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DR. R.E.M. LEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVANCOUVER YOUTH SUMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE CENTRE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREALWHEELS SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVANCOUVER BACH FAMILY OF CHOIRS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER HORROR SHOW FILM FESTIVAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 6.7% 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.

Deux Mille FoundationThe Hamber FoundationMartha Lou Henley Cha…The Christopher Found…Zlc FoundationY.P.Heung FoundationLohn FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationDiamond FoundationJohn C. Kerr Family F…Michael and Inna O'Br…
Deux Mille FoundationBC21.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Deux Mille Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Diamond Foundation · John C. Kerr Family Foundation · Michael and Inna O'Brian 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 41 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 834230161:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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