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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Betty Averbach Foundation

By making grants to qualified donees under the income tax act the foundation: - supports the enhancement of education - promotes the growth development and enjoyment of arts & culture - promotes medical research and - promotes the preservation of the environment.

C$425k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k22 grants · C$153k
  • C$10k–50k17 grants · C$272k
C$8,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOUNDLESS ADVENTURESC$20,000
JEWISH MUSEUM OF MONTREALC$20,000
YES EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVE (V.E.Q. FOUNDATION)C$19,935
FOOD BANK OF QUEBECC$19,000
ONE TO ONEC$16,393
AUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS SOCIETYC$16,393
EVA'S INITIATIVESC$16,393
FOCUS FOUNDATIONC$16,393
THE CULTCHC$16,393
THE CHILDREN'S BOOKBANKC$16,393
HOPE IN SHADOWSC$16,393
TAKE-A-HIKEC$16,393
THE ARTS STARTS IN SCHOOLS SOCIETYC$16,393
KIDS EAT SMARTC$15,000
EASTERN EDGEC$11,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.5M · 53 repeat orgsC$207k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
20

Total granted

C$2.5M
C$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+11%

Still filing today

98%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$70k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • BA
    BOUNDLESS ADVENTURES
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$129k · revenue +4%
  • I
    INDSPIRE
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$111k · revenue +116%
  • JM
    JEWISH MUSEUM OF MONTREAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$109k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • NW
    NATIVE WOMEN'S SHELTER OF MONTREALgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +56%
  • BC
    BREAST CANCER ACTION QUEBECgraduated
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$12k · revenue +122%
  • TA
    TAKE A HIKE
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k

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
Chabad of Downtown Vancouver

Fostering and conducting religious jewish educating in bc

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2
Vancouver Jewish Day Schools Education Society
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3
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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4
Vancouver Talmud Torah Foundation

The vancouver talmud torah foundation disburses scholarships & monies to support the vancouver talmud torah elementary school and king david high school as part of the foundation’s continuing commitment to the advancement of jewish…

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5
Jewish Community Center of Victoria

The jccv is a charitable non-profit organization providing educational recreational cultural and social programs for the jewish community and the general public.

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6
Chabad of Vancouver Island

Chabad enriches jewsih identity and helps ensure jewish continuity through a variety of educational religious and social services that increase jewish pride knowledge and commitment

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7
Central Vancouver Island Jewish Community Society

Promotion of Jewish education and family life throughout central Vancouver Island. Assistance in the observation of Jewish holidays and festivals. Provision of information on Jewish customs rituals and celebrations to the community at…

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8
Chabad Okanagan Society

The Society provides religious and educational programs to the Jewish Community of the Interior of BC that further cultural and religious beliefs and activities.

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9
Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (Jlic) Canada

Programs in which primarily university students are able to acquire and cultivate jewish learning wisdom throught and culture

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10
Victoria Society for Humanistic Judaism

The purpose of the society is to provide instruction in jewish history culture and philosophy to meet the spiritual needs of the community in a secular manner. the society

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11
Jems - Jewish Education Matters

Jewish education

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12
Jewish Learning Fund

High school courses with Jewish identity affirming content educational seminars provided to public schools on understanding Judaism seminars on countering antisemitism production of online materials promoting positive aspects of Judaism to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Seniors Alliance of Greater Vancouver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Simbi 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

78 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. 78 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/78
Grantees still filing
49/78
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 budgetBOUNDLESS ADVENTURES — C$128,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$111,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MONTREAL — C$109,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetHEAD AND HANDS — C$101,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCHEZ DORIS — C$93,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetARTREACH - SKETCH — C$88,799 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S — C$88,295 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$88,293 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE IN SHADOWS SOCIETY — C$88,293 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetFOCUS FOUNDATION — C$88,293 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetART STARTS — C$88,293 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK — C$88,292 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetTAKE A HIKE — C$78,293 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetEASTERN EDGE ART GALLERY — C$64,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$63,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetARTREACH — C$55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH SENIORS ALLIANCE — C$52,500 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY — C$51,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKING DAVID HIGH SCHOOL — C$51,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD OF RICHMOND — C$47,435 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetOBORO GALLERY — C$47,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE KEHILA SOCIETY OF RICHMOND — C$46,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetHILLEL — C$45,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetONE TO ONE — C$43,293 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetRICHMOND JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — C$38,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCONGREGATION EMANU-EL — C$38,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF QUEBEC — C$38,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAYIT — C$35,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetVANCOUVER JEWISH FILM CENTRE SOCIETY — C$34,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetVANCOUVER TALMUD TORAH — C$34,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANUCKS AUTISM NETWORK — C$33,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHABONIM DROR CAMP MIRIAM SOCIETY — C$32,534 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL — C$32,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSTILL MOON'S ECOLOGICAL ART — C$32,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetODD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY — C$31,250 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetKIDS EAT SMART — C$29,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVANCOUVER WEST SIDE THEATRE SOCIETY — C$29,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTOUCHSTONE FAMILY ASSOCIATION — C$27,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM & ARCHIVES OF BC — C$26,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE — C$25,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetZAJAC RANCH — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS UP FRONT — C$23,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOKANAGAN JEWISH COMMUNITY — C$20,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetYES EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVE (V.E.Q. FOUNDATION) — C$19,935 over 1y, 36% of budgetNATIVE WOMEN'S SHELTER OF MONTREAL — C$19,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSIMBI — C$19,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetVANCOUVER HEBREW ACADEMY — C$19,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTIKVA HOUSING — C$17,500 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds BOUNDLESS ADVENTURES ↗
  • Who funds INDSPIRE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MONTREAL ↗
  • Who funds HEAD AND HANDS ↗
  • Who funds CHEZ DORIS ↗
  • Who funds ARTREACH - SKETCH ↗
  • Who funds AUNT LEAH'S ↗
  • Who funds EVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IN SHADOWS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ART STARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds TAKE A HIKE ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN EDGE ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ARTREACH ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SENIORS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds KING DAVID HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds OBORO GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds THE KEHILA SOCIETY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL ↗
  • Who funds ONE TO ONE ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION EMANU-EL ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF QUEBEC ↗
  • Who funds THE BAYIT ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER JEWISH FILM CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER TALMUD TORAH ↗
  • Who funds CANUCKS AUTISM NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds HABONIM DROR CAMP MIRIAM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds STILL MOON'S ECOLOGICAL ART ↗
  • Who funds ODD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds KIDS EAT SMART ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER WEST SIDE THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TOUCHSTONE FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM & ARCHIVES OF BC ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …Diamond FoundationLohn FoundationPhyliss and Irving Sn…Zlc FoundationThe Dayhu Family Foun…Marsid Family Foundat…Kahn FoundationThe Zacks Family Char…The Harvey and Jody D…Nicola Wealth Private…The Joseph Segal Fami…
Jewish Federation of British ColumbiaBC33.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Diamond Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundation · Zlc Foundation · The Dayhu Family Foundation · Marsid Family Foundation · Kahn Foundation · The Zacks Family Charitable Foundation · The Harvey and Jody Dales Family Philanthropic Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Joseph Segal Family 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 2024-12-31, 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 853096238:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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