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Richmond, BC · Charitable organization

Buddha's Light International Association - Vancouver

The organization holds special event functions at the temple encourages spiritual growth on a daily basis.

C$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
C$1,650
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$41k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETYC$20,000
RICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION CHARITYC$5,000
FOOD BANKC$2,000
SURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$1,650
RICHMOND CARES RICHMOND GIVES SOCIETYC$1,200
CHIMO COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$1,000
THRANGU VIDHYA BUDDHIST ASSOCIATIONC$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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$588k · 7 repeat orgsC$28k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

C$588k
C$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+75%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • RH
    RICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION CHARITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$66k · revenue +64%
  • SH
    SURREY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$15k · revenue +52%
  • HS
    HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$12k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TC
    TREE CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +189%
  • BF
    BC FAMILY HEARING RESOURCE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +126%
  • CC
    CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · C$3k

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
United Way British Columbia

Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province. We support healthy caring and inclusive communities by strengthening vital connections to help ensure the health…

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6
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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7
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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8
Vancouver Community Birth Foundation

Provided prenatal and postpartum support care and counselling and educational programs to childbearing women and their families

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9
Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society

We raise funds from donors for the purpose of financing programs and projects that address homelessness. we conduct and provide assistance to homelessness and housing initiatives programs projects support services and special needs…

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10
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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11
Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch

Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Cares Richmond Gives Society and the most unlike its peers is Thrangu Vajra Vidhya Buddhist Association. 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
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 budgetVANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY — C$459,719 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetRICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION CHARITY — C$66,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$25,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$11,568 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$5,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$5,158 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREE CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBC FAMILY HEARING RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$3,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDERS — C$2,008 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetD.A.R.E. BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFIRST FUND SOCIETY — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATIRA WOMEN'S RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND CARES RICHMOND GIVES SOCIETY — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIMO COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRANGU VIDHYA BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…Lingyen Mountain Temp…Rotary Richmond Found…Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Bc Government Employe…TELUS Friendly Future…Shoppers Foundation f…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…The Canadian Red Cros…Raymond James Canada …
Vancouver FoundationBC8.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Lingyen Mountain Temple (Canada) · Rotary Richmond Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge · Raymond James Canada 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 20 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 charitable organization under other religions.

Source object 890072267:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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