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Burnaby, BC · Private foundation

Beedie Luminaries Foundation

The purposes of the foundation: 1.

C$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$4.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k18 grants · C$26k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$4.2M
C$1,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITIES CANDAC$4,228,059
MAYNE ISLAND EARLY CHILDHOOD SOCIETYC$3,000
MORESPORTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONC$1,500
FIRST BOOK CANADAC$1,500
VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITYC$1,500
THE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$1,500
SURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$1,500
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$1,500
SCOUTS CANADAC$1,500
S.U.C.C.E.S.S.C$1,500
PACIFIC BALLET BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETYC$1,500
MINERVA FOUNDATION FOR BC WOMENC$1,500
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATIONC$1,500
ISLAMIC RELIEF CANADAC$1,500
CERICC$1,500
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$20M · 15 repeat orgsC$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

C$20M
C$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k 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

  • UC
    UNIVERSITIES CANADA
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$20M · revenue +133%
  • SF
    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$16k · revenue +26%
  • CW
    CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$12k · revenue +219%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k
  • SW
    SURREY WOMEN'S CENTRE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +18%
  • PT
    POWER TO BE
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +10%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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5
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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6
Mvzeif

Ongoing programs are focused on enabling climate action in the building sector and supporting equity through climate action. programs include: zero emissions building exchange building to electrification coalition carbon leadership forum…

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7
United Way British Columbia

Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province. We support healthy caring and inclusive communities by strengthening vital connections to help ensure the health…

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8
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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9
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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10
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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11
Fora: Network for Change

Fora: network for change is global network of young feminist changemakers. through our governance programming leadership development social impact initiatives and feminist research we make bold strategic investments in young women and…

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12
Columbia Foundation

Columbia foundation gifts qualified donees who carry out programs that invest in human and social capital for all canadians: 1. programs undertaken in education training and research and democracy 2. conducting innovative social research…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes and the most unlike its peers is Mayne Island Early Childhood 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

32 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. 32 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
17/32
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 budgetUNIVERSITIES CANADA — C$20,401,505 over 6y, 14% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCOUTS CANADA — C$13,500 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetCANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — C$11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBCIT FOUNDATION — C$10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVIU FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYNE ISLAND EARLY CHILDHOOD SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMINERVA FOUNDATION FOR BC WOMEN — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FEED THE CHILDREN — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY WOMEN'S CENTRE SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER TO BE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORAFRIKA — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetS.U.C.C.E.S.S. — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORESPORTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetPACIFIC BALLET BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK CANADA — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA IN CANADA — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF CANADA — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetM.O.S.A.I.C. MULTI-LINGUAL ORIENTATION SERVICE ASSOCIATION F — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCERIC — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$500 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.

The Hamber FoundationVancity Community Fou…The Kpmg Foundation/L…Beedie FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…Raymond James Canada …United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…BenefAction FoundationAqueduct FoundationDiamond Foundation
The Hamber FoundationBC10.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Beedie Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Diamond 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 33 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 private foundation under teaching institutions.

Source object 716781323:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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