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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Aron Charitable Foundation

The foundation makes gifts to qualified donees

C$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$28k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$120k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$365k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.6M
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATIONC$1,009,500
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTONC$625,000
VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATIONC$175,000
CAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATIONC$140,000
THE FRASER INSTITUTEC$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$30,000
SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETYC$25,000
ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATIONC$25,000
LEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$10,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$10,000
BIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLANDC$10,000
COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$10,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$7,500
ZAJAC RANCH SOCIETYC$5,000
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.9M · 12 repeat orgsC$2.6M 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 +14% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

C$1.9M
C$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • QU
    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +8%
  • VP
    VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$225k · revenue +98%
  • CW
    CAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$166k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • SG
    ST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$401k · revenue +39%
  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$400k · revenue +9%
  • SH
    SPEARHEAD HUTS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$325k · revenue -3% · 69% 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 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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2
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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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
Langara College Foundation

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

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5
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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6
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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7
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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8
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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9
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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10
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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11
Harbour Lights Foundation

Harbour Lights Foundation is a private Vancouver based foundation dedicated to helping Canadian Registered Charities achieve their goals and missions. We are a proud donor in supporting scholarships funds and helping students with…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/Societe De Leucemie & Lymphome Du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Zajac Ranch 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

34 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. 34 of the 36 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
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 budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$1,250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$1,009,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$400,592 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$400,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPEARHEAD HUTS SOCIETY — C$325,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$225,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATION — C$166,400 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetCANADIAN COASTAL RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF BC — C$83,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FRASER INSTITUTE — C$76,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM — C$58,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKBF FOUNDATION CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$25,250 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 — C$21,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZAJAC RANCH SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUVELINE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACE THE WORLD FOUNDATION — C$5,145 over 1y, 25% of budgetCLICK CONTRIBUTING TO LIVES OF INNER CITY KIDS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFRONTIER COLLEGE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHOR LEONI CHORAL SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWO WORLDS CANCER COLLABORATION FOUNDATION — C$2,597 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$2,502 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANGLEY ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERS SOCIETY — C$1,887 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDESMOID TUMOR FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% 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…Peter & Joanne Brown …United Way British Co…Diamond FoundationVancouver FoundationCanada GivesThe Highbury Foundati…The Giustra FoundationThe McLean McCuaig Fo…Beedie FoundationThe Connor Clark & L…
Zlc FoundationBC16.2× affinity13 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 · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Diamond Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Canada Gives · The Highbury Foundation · The Giustra Foundation · The McLean McCuaig Foundation · Beedie Foundation · The Connor Clark & Lunn 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 36 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 2024-07-31, 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 704718477:2024-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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