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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Bergeron Private Foundation

Gifts to other organizations that are 'qualified donees' under the provisions of the income tax act 149.1(1)(b) - registered charities.

C$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$24k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$48k
C$3,600
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$425k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUR BORDERS-MSFC$24,000
LES AILES DE L'ESPERANCEC$12,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$12,000
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$6,000
THE BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTYC$3,600
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$3,600
AMNESTY INTERNATIONALC$3,600
ARTS CLUB THEATRE COMPANYC$1,500
Individual grant recipientC$750
PAL VANCOUVERC$300
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$615k · 16 repeat orgsC$95k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
13

Total granted

C$615k
C$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+36%

Still filing today

94%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • BC
    BC CANCER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$188k · revenue +64%
  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS - MSF
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$140k · revenue +47%
  • LA
    LES AILES DE L'ESPERANCE
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$64k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • WV
    WEST VANCOUVER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue +456%
  • YL
    YOUR LOCAL FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k
  • TL
    THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA/SOCIETE DE LEUCEMI
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +16%

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
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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3
Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation
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4
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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5
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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6
Vancouver Opera Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to receive hold and invest bequests donations gifts funds and property and to administer and distribute funds property endowments trusts and financial programs for the funding and support of the programs…

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7
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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8
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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9
Vancouver Status of Women

Vancouver Status of Women's ongoing work focuses on feminist community building with women and gender diverse peoples towards equity in social political and economic spheres. The Coordinating Collective provides ongoing support to…

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10
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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11
Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation
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12
Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society

Working towards building a new concert hall and theatre in vancouver.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is D.S.R.F. Down Syndrome Resource 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

26 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. 26 of the 29 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
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 budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$188,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS - MSF — C$140,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLES AILES DE L'ESPERANCE — C$64,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetVANCOUVER FRINGE THEATRE SOCIETY — C$42,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY — C$36,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$33,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARTS CLUB THEATRE COMPANY — C$32,850 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — C$17,100 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetB.W.S.S.: BATTERED WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA/SOCIETE DE LEUCEMI — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL SOCIETY — C$9,600 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPAL VANCOUVER — C$4,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDown Syndrome Research Foundation — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRANS CANADA TRAIL FOUNDAITON — C$3,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARMOT RECOVERY FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARPOLE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY TO GEORGE PEARSON CENTRE AND G.F S — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITIUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoly Trinity Parish — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Aqueduct FoundationLohn FoundationZlc FoundationBc Government Employe…Makeway FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …
Vancouver FoundationBC11.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Makeway Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable 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 29 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 foundations.

Source object 806241444:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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