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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation

The foundation provides financial and human resources to charitable not for profit groups focused on community service.

C$571k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$225k
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$10k15 grants · C$65k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$281k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$225k
C$5,550
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Learning Disabilities Society of Greater VancouverC$225,000
Pacific Immigrant Resources SocietyC$37,859
New Westminster Family Place SocietyC$37,350
VanCity Community FoundationC$35,775
BC Society of Transition HousesC$35,725
UrbanPromise Ministries (Promise Vancouver)C$35,000
BabyGoRound Helping Families SocietyC$34,400
Richmond Family Place SocietyC$33,992
West Coast Kids Cancer FoundationC$20,750
LAICHWILTACH FAMILY LIFE SOCIETYC$10,000
The Writers' Exchange SocietyC$5,650
Mom to Mom Child Poverty Initiative SocietyC$5,600
Fresh Roots Urban Farm SocietyC$5,550
THE ART STARTS IN SCHOOLS SOCIETYC$5,500
Take a Hike Youth Mental Health FoundationC$5,450
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.2M · 34 repeat orgsC$380k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
12

Total granted

C$4.2M
C$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+16%

Still filing today

97%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$55k 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

  • LD
    Learning Disabilities Society of Greater Vancouver
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$582k · revenue +274%
  • DS
    DOWN SYNDROME RESOURCE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$273k · revenue +67%
  • FR
    Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$224k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER
    one grant, 2021 · C$103k
  • TD
    THE DALAI LAMA CENTRE FOR PEACE AND EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue -82%
  • DW
    Do What U Luv Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$40k · revenue +100% · 49% 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
Trellis Society for Community Impact

At Trellis we work with children youth and families to unearth their potential and support their growth. Our programs focus on improving access to resources developing family and community supports and building people’s capacity to deal…

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2
Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland

Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…

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3
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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4
Nstep

NSTEP provides hands-on nutrition and physical activity education to children teachers and families across Canada. We strive to promote positive change in the health of our communities through active learning. We are an education hub of…

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5
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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6
The Landing Youth Centre Foundation

The Landing Youth Centre is a community hub serving vulnerable youth and their families in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Grandview-Woodland neighborhoods. We provide all-round support programs and services to vulnerable youth and their…

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7
Langley Children's Society

The Society provides a range of services and supports to over 700 children and youth in the community of Langley who have special needs. Early Intervention services are developed around age appropriate groupings: 1. Services to Infants -…

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8
Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver

Big brother community program the traditional big brothers program matches adult male volunteers with boys aged 7-14 who need a positive male role model. in-school mentor the in school mentoring program is a friendship and activity based…

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9
Projectkids Before and After School Care Society

To Advance education by providing before and after-school programs using project-based engagement integrated with social/emotional learning to children in BC

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10
Common Compass Pro-Social Programs

Programming and workshops for youth supporting mental health belonging and inclusion.

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11
Richmond Schoolyard Society

The Richmond Schoolyard Society has been teaching children about health and social responsibility since 2006. Our program promotes community, local organic food, health eating choices and food sustainability. Through this program children…

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12
Tantalus Wellspring Society

Tantalus Wellspring Society is a Squamish-based Not-for-Profit organization striving to facilitate affordable therapeutic services to individuals couples and families to bridge gaps and remove barriers by: (1) Engaging practitioners to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kidsafe Project Society and the most unlike its peers is Boston Pizza Foundation. 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

44 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. 44 of the 50 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
36/44
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLearning Disabilities Society of Greater Vancouver — C$582,108 over 6y, 14% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME RESOURCE FOUNDATION — C$273,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetFresh Roots Urban Farm Society — C$224,150 over 6y, 16% of budgetThe Writers' Exchange Society — C$216,250 over 4y, 18% of budgetFASD Society for BC (The Asante Centre) — C$199,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetARTSTARTS IN SCHOOLS — C$178,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBLIND BEGINNINGS — C$176,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetEnvironmental Youth Alliance — C$175,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetTake A Hike Youth at Risk Foundation — C$165,450 over 4y, 19% of budgetUMOJA OPERATION COMPASSION SOCIETY — C$165,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetKINBRACE COMMUNITY SOCIETY — C$162,113 over 4y, 17% of budgetCommunity First Foundation — C$130,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetURBAN HORSE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$125,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetBABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$125,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetBurnaby MoreSports Society — C$116,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetBABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$111,400 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE TREEHOUSE ADVOCACY CENTRE SOCIETY VANCOUVER — C$110,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetVanCity Community Foundation — C$105,775 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN HORSE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$101,100 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetWEST COAST KIDS CANCER FOUNDATION — C$100,750 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetPEDAL Foundation — C$90,600 over 5y, 21% of budgetNew Westminster Family Place Society — C$83,850 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetThe Society of Transition Houses — C$75,725 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPacific Immigrant Resources Society — C$73,887 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRichmond Family Place Society — C$66,013 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMealshare Aid Foundation — C$51,100 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetRed Fox Healthy Living Sociery — C$50,100 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE DALAI LAMA CENTRE FOR PEACE AND EDUCATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetDeaf Children's Society of BC — C$40,750 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetDo What U Luv Foundation — C$40,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetMom to Mom Child Poverty Initiative Soc — C$38,200 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetZero Ceiling Society of Canada — C$38,100 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetUrbanPromise Ministries (Promise Vancouver) — C$35,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOne to One Literacy Society — C$34,577 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetNetwork of Inner City Community Services Society — C$30,100 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BC — C$29,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYO BRO YO GIRL YOUTH INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$11,300 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGROWING CHEFS SOCIETY — C$10,850 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLAICHWILTACH FAMILY LIFE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATHLETIC FOR KIDS (BC) SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WRITERS' EXCHANGE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY SOCIETY — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKickstart Disability Arts & Culture — C$500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Vancity Community Fou…The Hamber FoundationUnited Way British Co…Spencercreo FoundationChris-Spencer Foundat…Vancouver FoundationDiamond FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Seedlings FoundationTELUS Friendly Future…Click-Contributing to…Cknw Kids' Fund
Vancity Community FoundationBC20.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Spencercreo Foundation · Chris-Spencer Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Seedlings Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Click-Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society · Cknw Kids' Fund

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 50 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 866683196:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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