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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Bosa Properties Charitable Foundation

The foundation contributes to local communities.

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$625k
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$10k2 grants · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$271k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.2M
C$55,750
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$67k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONC$625,000
POTLUCK CAFE (2003) SOCIETYC$310,815
CITYREACH CARE SOCIETYC$250,000
CHILLIWACK HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$112,500
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$55,750
FACE THE WORLD FOUNDATIONC$53,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$50,000
KIWASSA NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES ASSOCIATIONC$35,000
CANADIAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATIONC$5,300
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$1,000
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.5M · 19 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
37

Total granted

C$4.5M
C$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$163k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • CR
    CITY REACH CARE SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +356%
  • VU
    VGH & UBC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$260k · revenue +43%
  • KN
    KIWASSA NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$120k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • LG
    LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$500k · revenue +45%
  • PC
    POTLUCK CAFÉ (2003) SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$205k
  • WK
    WASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$200k

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
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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3
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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4
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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5
Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy food to those in need. The Society provides food support to approximately 16 000 children adults and seniors monthly through its…

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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10
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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11
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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12
Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch

1) mental health program development & delivery-we help build mental health skills and resilience for individuals. this includes parent support employment services crisis lines youth programs and support groups. 2) mental health education…

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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 Mel Jr. & Marty Zajac 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

54 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. 54 of the 58 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
39/54
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 budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION — C$1,875,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCITY REACH CARE SOCIETY — C$1,000,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetPOTLUCK CAFE (2003) SOCIETY — C$580,905 over 3y, 52% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVGH & UBC FOUNDATION — C$260,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIWASSA NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$120,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILLIWACK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$112,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetSEA TO SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$94,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 36 SURREY — C$84,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY C/O QUEEN ALEXANDRIA ELEMENTARY SCHO — C$82,600 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFACE THE WORLD FOUNDATION — C$78,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$72,630 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$62,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOURCES COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOUNDATION — C$57,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFree the Children — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION — C$47,431 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBURNABY NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCIETY — C$36,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBoard of Education of School District No. 45 — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFACE OF TODAY FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFamily Services of Greater Vancouver — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFULL CIRCLE FIRST NATIONS PERFORMANCE SOCIETY — C$22,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCrisis Intervention & Suide Prevention Centre of British Col — C$21,700 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetShare Family & Community Services — C$21,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINERVA FOUNDATION FOR BC WOMEN — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPlan International Canada Inc. — C$15,565 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHISTLER BLACKCOMB FOUNDATION SOCIETY — C$15,315 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES BC — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget1000x5 Children's Book — C$15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetArts Umbrella — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERGREEN — C$13,570 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRITANNIA COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTRE SOCIETY — C$13,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHIMP FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP KERRY SOCIETY — C$12,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJABC Donation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY BRITISH COLUMBIA DIVISION — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE MEL JR. & MARTY ZAJAC FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FRASER INSTITUTE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVictoria Cool Aid Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADLER CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLiving Edge — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER VANCOUVER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Lower Mainland — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCEITY — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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…The Hamber FoundationFirst West FoundationVancouver FoundationGreater Vancouver Foo…Raymond James Canada …Right To FoodZlc FoundationBc Government Employe…Ocean Wise Conservati…
Vancity Community FoundationBC19.2× affinity23 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 · The Hamber Foundation · First West Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Right To Food · Zlc Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Ocean Wise Conservation Association

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 58 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 801309709:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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