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April 1 Foundation

The APRIL 1 FOUNDATION will apply for and recieve grants gifts legacies devises and bequests and will raise funds through appropriate fund-raising activities and will hold administer and invest the funds so received.

C$4.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$38k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$175k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$1.2M
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$3.1M
C$30,000
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARD ON THE BEACHC$1,100,000
ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATIONC$752,000
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONC$570,632
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATIONC$450,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$240,875
PACIFIC BALLET BCC$185,000
GLOBALCIVIC POLICY SOCIETYC$175,000
SALTSPRING ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64C$165,000
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$150,000
RICK HANSEN FOUNDATIONC$105,000
PACE CHILD AND FAMILY SOCIETYC$104,015
BGC FOUNDATIONC$100,000
BC CENTRE FOR ABILITYC$30,000
BC SPORTS HALL OF FAMEC$29,531
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$19M · 29 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
19

Total granted

C$19M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

93%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$145k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • AU
    ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$4.6M · revenue +75%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$3.2M · revenue +69%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$2.5M · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • PF
    P.H. FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$252k · revenue -58%
  • AA
    AUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$250k · revenue +437%
  • MS
    MS SOCIETY OF CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$150k · revenue +4%

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.

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British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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2
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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3
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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4
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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5
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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6
Langara College Foundation

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

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7
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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8
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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9
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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10
Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation

To provide funding to the vancouver art gallery association to assist with the cost of maintaining a public art gallery and financial support of traveling exhibitions education and public programs and in acquiring works of art.

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11
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia Centre for Ability Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pickering College. 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

48 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. 48 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
34/48
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 budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$4,611,483 over 6y, 13% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$3,216,327 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$2,487,688 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH — C$1,650,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetBGC FOUNDATION — C$1,010,104 over 4y, 17% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$850,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBALLET BC — C$785,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSALTSPRING ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64 — C$767,015 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$680,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS SOUTH COAST BC — C$517,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLADY MINTO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$509,300 over 2y, 15% of budgetVANCOUVER CANADIANS BASEBALL FOUNDATION (AT VANCOUVER FOUNDA — C$375,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$285,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBALCIVIC POLICY SOCIETY — C$280,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDTION — C$250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPACE CHILD AND FAMILY SOCIETY — C$160,045 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM — C$149,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SULLIVAN UROLOGY FOUNDATION — C$142,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG ADULT CANCER CANADA — C$115,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY KATE BOOTH HOUSE — C$112,100 over 2y, 22% of budgetRICK HANSEN FOUNDATION — C$105,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARTS CLUB THEATRE SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPLEAIDES THEATRE — C$100,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND — C$100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBC SPORTS HALL OF FAME — C$88,594 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPLUNGE FOR THE CURE — C$75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBC CENTRE FOR ABILITY — C$63,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetSAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetFIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON AND MARION SMITH FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDRENS' FUNDS ADOPT A SCHOOL — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetST PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBCIT FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBILL REID FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUBC FACULTY OF MEDICINE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG FOUNDATION — C$14,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEST COAST RAILWAY — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN OLYMPIC FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN - RETINOBLASTOMA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPICKERING COLLEGE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$550 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 FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Diamond FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…John C. Kerr Family F…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Vancity Community Fou…The Christopher Found…The Hamber FoundationJewish Federation of …Peter & Joanne Brown …United Way British Co…
Zlc FoundationBC19.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · John C. Kerr Family Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · United Way British Columbia

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 52 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 2024-11-30, 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 740996293:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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