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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Boffo Foundation

Funding qualified donees.

C$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$22k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$8k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$22k
C$900
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$43k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLY CROSS PARISHC$22,100
THE KETTLE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETYC$2,500
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$1,000
SAINT MARY'S PARISHC$1,000
BRITANNIA COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTREC$1,000
HELPING FAMILIES IN NEED SOCIETYC$900
PORT MOODY FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$500
WATOTO CANADAC$456
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERC$345
ST. THOMAS MORE COLLEGIATE FOUNDATIONC$259
MOVEMBER CANADAC$173
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$107k · 10 repeat orgsC$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

C$107k
C$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$845 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • HC
    HOLY CROSS PARISH
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$33k · revenue +66%
  • TK
    The Kettle Friendship Society
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$28k · revenue +41%
  • BC
    BC Cancer Foundation
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$11k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • RH
    Rick Hansen Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue -20%
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF THE MOUNTAINS
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue -25%
  • MP
    MISSION POSSIBLE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$818 · revenue +43%

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
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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2
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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3
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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4
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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5
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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6
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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7
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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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
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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10
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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11
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

Through the support of donors and volunteers we take action and provide programs for every canadian affected by a brain tumour. we provide information including handbooks storybooks information sheets videos and a comprehensive website and…

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12
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Roman Catholic Bishop of Kamloops. 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

30 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. 30 of the 31 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
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 budgetHOLY CROSS PARISH — C$32,710 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Kettle Friendship Society — C$27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt.Thomas More collegiate Foundation — C$20,259 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$11,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWatoto Canada — C$8,596 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRITANNIA COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTRE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING FAMILIES IN NEED SOCIETY — C$1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,410 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRick Hansen Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE MOUNTAINS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES SOCIETY — C$818 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT MOODY FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOOKS FOR ME! LITERACY FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 12% of budgetCASSIE + FRIENDS: A SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN AFFECTED BY JUVENIL — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER VICTORIA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarvest Project — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$476 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRED CROSS — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOVARIAN CANCER CANADA — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS Society of Canada — C$125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$123 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kidney Foundation of Canada, BC & Yukon Branch — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeaver Valley Outreach — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer British Columbia — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURNABY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO AN — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA Metro Vancouver — C$50 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Bc Government Employe…Vancity Community Fou…Vancouver FoundationAqueduct FoundationDjavad Mowafaghian Fo…BenefAction FoundationZlc FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Raymond James Canada …Canada Gives
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC11.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Canada Gives

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 31 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 827759119:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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