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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Bridges Family Memorial Foundation

Payments made to 'qualifying donees'

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$94k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.4M
C$15,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANCOUVER FOUNDATIIONC$1,379,638
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$30,000
TURNING POINT RECOVERY SOCIETYC$15,000
CONVENT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$15,000
LANGLEY HOSPICE SOCIETYC$13,799
BIG BORTHER OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$10,000
SURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT #36C$10,000
AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETYC$5,000
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$810k · 16 repeat orgsC$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

C$810k
C$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+36%

Still filing today

94%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.4M 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

  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$120k · revenue +81%
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$115k · revenue +127%
  • LM
    LANGLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$66k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • PP
    PACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$15k · revenue +75%
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k
  • BL
    B.C. Lions Society for Children with Disabilitiesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue +58%

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
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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3
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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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
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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6
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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7
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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8
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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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
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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11
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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12
Vancouver Parks and Recreation Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lions Gate Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Arcus Association for Community Living. 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 27 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)
25/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
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 budgetVANCOUVER FOUNDATIION — C$1,379,638 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$115,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLANGLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$66,395 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND — C$65,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTURNING POINT RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$65,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLION GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDREN — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS OF GREATER VANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF BC — C$35,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetA LOVING SPOONFUL — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDR PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDREN — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY SCHOOLS SD36 — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetB.C. Lions Society for Children with Disabilities — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLANGLEY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$13,799 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST PAULS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOURCES FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArcus Association for Community Living — C$8,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetCAMP KERRY SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of BC — C$5,000 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.

United Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationFirst West FoundationTELUS Friendly Future…Zlc FoundationTelus Employees Chari…Vancity Community Fou…West Vancouver Commun…Lohn FoundationBc Government Employe…Peter & Joanne Brown …
United Way British ColumbiaBC13× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · First West Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Zlc Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · West Vancouver Community Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Peter & Joanne Brown 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 27 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 2024-09-30, 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 889102091:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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