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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Audain Foundation

Make donations to Qualified Donees in support of visual arts and wildlife conservation.

C$19M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$10M
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$10k3 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k14 grants · C$328k
  • C$50k–250k13 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$250k+7 grants · C$17M
C$55,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$423M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FONDATION MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBECC$10,000,000
AUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATIONC$5,000,000
THE BC PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ARTS SOCIETYC$650,000
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$590,000
AUDAIN ART MUSEUMC$473,108
JEAN PAUL RIOPELLE FOUNDATIONC$300,000
VANCOUVER ART GALLERYC$261,640
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$166,000
GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATIONC$150,000
Individual grant recipientC$150,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CANADAC$146,000
GREATERVANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETYC$120,000
WILDSIGHTC$100,000
YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATIONC$100,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADAC$80,000
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$67M · 33 repeat orgsC$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
33

Total granted

C$67M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+27%

Still filing today

97%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$11M 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

  • AA
    AUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$13M · revenue +141% · 59% of their budget
  • VA
    Vancouver Art Gallery Association
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$11M · revenue +204% · 34% of their budget
  • SP
    St. Pauls Hospital Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$4.0M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AU
    ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$500k
  • MM
    MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    one grant, 2021 · C$150k · revenue +11%
  • RC
    Raincoast Conservation Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue -38%

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
The Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver

Promotion and education of contemporary art through public lectures guest speakers artist studio tours and collectors' receptions in vancouver. webinar/zoom host artist talks and studio visits

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2
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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3
Vancouver International Open Spaces Sculpture Biennale

Staging a sculpture exhibition starting in october 2005 on public land through out vancouver parks and urban areas which promotes international and national sculptures. the exhibition increases the presence of art in the city of vancouver.…

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4
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

We are a public art gallery showcasing exhibitions from Canadian contemporary and historical artists international artists and a world-class Asian collection. We house and maintain the largest collection of visual arts in public trust in…

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5
Victoria Visual Arts Legacy Society

Arts scholarships

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6
Contemporary Calgary Arts Society

Public art gallery dedicated to the exhibition education and discussion of contemporary art including the presentation of curated exhibitions speaker series publications public events and activities independently and in partnership with…

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7
Society of Canadian Artists

Sca is committed to the promotion of excellence in traditional forms of expression and encouraging acceptance and growth of comptemporary and experimental forms of visual art. sca organizes and administers public exhibitions of the work of…

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8
Victoria Arts Council

Rotating temporary art exhibitions in our main gallery space and community satellite spaces - support of literacy arts in victoria - sponsorship of community-based art initiatives - community art showcases - professional development for…

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9
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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10
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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11
The Canadian Art Foundation
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12
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vancouver Art Gallery Association and the most unlike its peers is Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners. 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

73 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. 73 of the 80 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
47/73
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 budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM — C$15,162,123 over 8y, 55% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$12,660,000 over 4y, 59% of budgetVancouver Art Gallery Association — C$10,636,640 over 6y, 34% of budgetSt. Pauls Hospital Foundation — C$4,000,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$3,844,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetArts Umbrella Association — C$2,540,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetJEAN PAUL RIOPELLE FOUNDAITON — C$2,077,485 over 6y, 78% of budgetGRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION — C$1,639,777 over 7y, 59% of budgetTHE BC PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ARTS SOCIETY — C$1,270,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetTHE BC PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ARTS SOCIETY — C$865,000 over 8y, 78% of budgetBill Reid Foundation — C$645,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$597,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATERVANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY — C$465,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$400,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$282,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GORDON AND MARION SMITH FOUNDATION FOR YOUNG ARTISTS — C$266,470 over 4y, 40% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$246,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVancouver Association for Photographic Arts — C$110,000 over 6y, 72% of budgetWILDSIGHT — C$100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRaincoast Conservation Foundation — C$99,700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEMILY CARR UNIVERSITY — C$82,500 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA — C$80,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACIAC / Art Canada Institute — C$75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSKEENAWILD CONSERVATION TRUST — C$70,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetOR GALLERY SOCIETY — C$62,500 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetFondation du Musée d'art de Joliette — C$52,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFONDATION POUR L'ART THERAPEUTIQUE ET L'ART BRUT AU — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetU'MISTA CULTURAL SOCIETY — C$46,674 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYVR ART FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetMusee d'Art de Joliette — C$37,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMcMichael Canadian Art Foundation — C$35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKamloops Art Gallery — C$31,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY SOCIETY OF BC — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWESTERN FRONT — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHAIDA GWAII MUSEUM — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNANAIMO ART GALLERY — C$25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDR. SUN YAT-SEN GARDEN SOCIETY OF VANCOUVER — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEastside Arts Society — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMalaspina Printmakers Society — C$20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetASIAN CANADIAN STUDIES SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetCAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$20,000 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.

The Hamber FoundationMichael and Inna O'Br…Y.P.Heung FoundationVancity Community Fou…Freybe FoundationThe Christopher Found…Peter & Joanne Brown …Vancouver FoundationDeux Mille FoundationZlc FoundationThe Sitka FoundationThe McLean Foundation
The Hamber FoundationBC21.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Freybe Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · Zlc Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · The McLean 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 80 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 2024-06-30, 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 878890060:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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