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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Blue Sky Properties Charitable Foundation

The foundation contributes to local communities.

C$157k
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
1
Regions reached
C$58k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$39k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$108k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$58,000
CITYREACH CARE SOCIETYC$50,000
SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETYC$28,800
KIWASSA NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
THE HAPPY HERD FARM SANCTUARYC$5,000
YASSIN FAMILY FOUNDATIONC$2,926
FRESH ROOTSC$2,500
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$483k · 8 repeat orgsC$261k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
19

Total granted

C$483k
C$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$100k · revenue +38%
  • CM
    COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · C$92k · revenue +71%
  • SM
    SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$88k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND
    one grant, 2020 · C$39k · revenue -43%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$30k · revenue +31%
  • PI
    Plan International Canada Inc.
    one grant, 2019 · C$28k · revenue +3%

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
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
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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4
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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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
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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7
Variety - the Children's Charity of Bc

Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations. Variety funds renovations equipment…

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8
Ymca Bc

'We are a charity dedicated to building healthy communities by fostering a sense of belonging for all. By creating safe and welcoming spaces that serve people of all ages backgrounds and abilities the YMCA BC is committed to ensuring…

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9
Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society

Adopt-a-school: issues grants to programs run by qualified donees (i.e. schools boards community associations children's charities) aimed at ensuring food security provision of clothing and other necessities as well as for mentorship…

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10
Nutritionlink Services Society

Nutritionlink services society (nls) promotes and enhances eating choices for people and communities in british columbia. nls works in collaboration with others to enhance individuals' ability to make healthy food choices. nls supports the…

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11
Sunny Hill Foundation for Children

To provide funding to sunny hill health centre for children (part of the bc children's hospital a program of provincial health services authority) for research equiment purchases education health promotion and program development.

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12
B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation

The foundation provides financial and human resources to charitable not for profit groups focused on community service. the foundation provides grants to qualified donees that provide services in the areas of: social services education and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is The Happy Herd Farm Sanctuary 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

25 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. 25 of the 28 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
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 budgetWe Charity (Former Free the Children) — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$92,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY — C$88,360 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCITYREACH CARE SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND — C$38,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlan International Canada Inc. — C$28,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBurnaby Neighbourhood House — C$25,679 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Sarah Mclachlan Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetKIWASSA NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBC Women's Health Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HAPPY HERD FARM SANCTUARY — C$10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBlind Beginnings Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVANCOUVER MUSEUM SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDecoda Literacy Foundation — C$8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRESH ROOTS — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRay-Cam Community Association — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYASSIN FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$2,926 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChild Abuse Prevention and Counselling Society of Greater Vi — C$1,516 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER VANCOUVER — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe BC Lung Association — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPinetree Secondary School — C$250 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.

Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationBc Government Employe…The Hamber FoundationBosa Properties Chari…TELUS Friendly Future…Right To FoodBeedie FoundationAl Roadburg FoundationGreater Vancouver Foo…
Vancity Community FoundationBC12.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Hamber Foundation · Bosa Properties Charitable Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Right To Food · Beedie Foundation · Al Roadburg Foundation · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

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 28 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 2021-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2022) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 845360338:2021-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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