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Salt Spring Island, BC · Public foundation

Beech Foundation

The foundation was incorporated for the purpose of funding facilitating and carrying out activities and programs which are beneficial to the community as a whole.

C$27k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$348k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAJENGO CANADAC$8,550
BILL REID GALLERYC$3,500
THEATRE REPLACEMENT SOCIETYC$2,500
THE ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE FOUNDATIONC$2,500
ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATIONC$2,500
THEATRE REPLACEMENT SOCIETYC$2,500
VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARYC$2,000
GATEWAY THEATREC$1,500
MUSIC ON MAINC$1,000
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$149k · 10 repeat orgsC$30k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

C$149k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+54%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • MC
    MAJENGO CANADA
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$48k · revenue +87%
  • AF
    Artists for Kids-North Van School District #44
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$21k · revenue +75%
  • MO
    MUSIC ON MAIN
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$13k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • BO
    Bard on the Beach Theatre Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +55%
  • CT
    CAROUSEL THEATRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +21%
  • VA
    VANCOUVER ART GALLERYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +283%

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 Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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2
Vancouver International Children's Festival Society

The Vancouver International Children's Festival Society presented a fully in person festival from May 27-June 2nd 2024. We presented 14 international national and regional live shows plus hands on arts activities resulting in 75…

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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
The Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival Association

The society annually conducts a performing arts festival serving the Greater Victoria area.

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7
The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society

Vancouver international jazz festival year-round jazz concerts and related educational programs.

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8
Greater Vancouver Society to Bridge Arts and Community

BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre

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9
Pacific Coast Stage Company

Nanaimo fringe festival public workshops

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10
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre

We are one of the only two theatre companies in Canada that exclusively creates develops and produces new Asian Canadian work. We bring artistic excellence from the pan-Asian diaspora uplifting narratives previously unseen. We also provide…

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11
The Chop Theatre Society

The Chop is a Vancouver-based theatre organization that brings together artists to create new works of theatre for audiences locally across Canada and internationally. The organization often works with communities and individuals who are…

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12
The Arts Club of Vancouver Theatre Society

The arts club theatre company is canada's largest urban not for profit theatre company producing up to 20 productions with over 700 performances each seson in vancouver and throughout the province of bc. our values are deeply rooted in our…

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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 Majengo Canada. 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

21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
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 budgetMAJENGO CANADA — C$48,234 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetVancouver Public Library Foundation — C$23,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetArtists for Kids-North Van School District #44 — C$21,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC ON MAIN — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ARTS SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE FOUNDATION — C$9,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND SYMPHONY — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAxis Theatre Company — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT 44 — C$5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBard on the Beach Theatre Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE REPLACEMENT SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBILL REID GALLERY — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGATEWAY THEATRE — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAROUSEL THEATRE — C$2,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFVANCOUVER OPERA ASSOCIATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICA INTIMA SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTILL MOON ARTS SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIDSAFE PROJECT — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID ISLAND PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 FoundationDeux Mille FoundationY.P.Heung FoundationMathisen Family Priva…The McLean FoundationVancity Community Fou…Ocean Wise Conservati…The Christopher Found…Vancouver FoundationLohn FoundationUnited Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…
The Hamber FoundationBC18× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · Mathisen Family Private Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Christopher Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Lohn Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving 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 21 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 866682396:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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