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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation of Canada

The purpose of the foundation is to alleviate poverty among children youth the aged or persons suffering disabilities or medical conditions by providing basic amenities including food water clothing personal hygiene items and medicine.

C$107k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
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Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$14k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$93k
C$10,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$30,000
SURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT #36C$20,000
RICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$12,500
SURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$10,000
LANGLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
MARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITALC$10,000
CALGARY DROP-IN CENTREC$6,250
ST JAMES UNITED CHURCHC$3,000
ST JAMES UNITED CHURCHC$3,000
VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT #39C$1,000
RICHMOND SCHOOL DISTRIC #38C$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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.2M · 25 repeat orgsC$356k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
32

Total granted

C$2.2M
C$314k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
-11%

Still filing today

88%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22
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
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$146k · revenue +64%
  • SS
    SURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT #36
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$135k · revenue +53%
  • LG
    LIONS GATE HOSPITAL
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$112k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SH
    Surrey Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$29k · revenue -64%
  • SP
    St Paul Hospital
    one grant, 2018 · C$29k
  • SP
    St Paul Hospital
    one grant, 2017 · C$29k · revenue -80%

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
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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2
Langara College Foundation

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

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3
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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4
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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5
Squamish Hospital Foundation

Raising funds principally for capital and other needs of the health care institutions in the sea to sky community.

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6
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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7
Strait-Richmond Health Care Foundation

Purchase hospital equipment and fund programs.

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8
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre Foundation

The royal victoria regional high centre foundation raises to enhance facilities and services at the royal victoria regional health care. the funds are provided primarily for capital equipment facility expansion and educational purposes.

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9
Pemberton & District Health Care Foundation

Funded Capital Purchases and Expenditures for Sea-to-Sky community health

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10
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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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
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Hospital and Community Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stoney Creek Community Church. 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

35 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. 35 of the 61 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
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 budgetTzu Chi Medical Ctr of TCM — C$1,168,210 over 3y, 99% of budgetRICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$145,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT #36 — C$135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL — C$111,530 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRoyal Columbian Hospital — C$72,978 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST PAUL HOSPITAL — C$52,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEagle Ridge Hospital — C$48,010 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSURREY FOOD BANK — C$45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL — C$44,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetByrne Creek Secondary — C$34,200 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetPeace Arch Hospital — C$34,165 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$33,695 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE — C$32,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSurrey Hospital Foundation — C$29,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Paul Hospital — C$28,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetBC WOMENS FOUNDATION — C$28,036 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTrillium Health — C$28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLANGLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 43 — C$23,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA — C$21,201 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLANGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 35 — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND FOOD BANK — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetST JAMES UNITED CHURCH — C$18,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION SANTE URBAINE — C$13,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUBC — C$10,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetVancouver Community College — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of BC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMBIE SECONDARY SCHOOL — C$2,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSeymour Elem School — C$1,970 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEY CREEK COMMUNITY — C$1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRICHMOND SCHOOL DISTRIC #38 — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAGEE SECONDARY — C$500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds Tzu Chi Medical Ctr of TCM ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT #36 ↗
  • Who funds LIONS GATE HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Royal Columbian Hospital ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Eagle Ridge Hospital ↗
  • Who funds SURREY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MARKHAM STOUFFVILLE HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Byrne Creek Secondary ↗
  • Who funds Peace Arch Hospital ↗
  • Who funds DELTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Surrey Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds St Paul Hospital ↗
  • Who funds BC WOMENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Trillium Health ↗
  • Who funds LANGLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL DISTRICT 43 ↗
  • Who funds YWCA ↗
  • Who funds LANGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 35 ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES UNITED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION SANTE URBAINE ↗
  • Who funds UBC ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Community College ↗

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…The Tong and Geraldin…Loyal Protestant Asso…The London Drugs Foun…Telus Employees Chari…Nicola Wealth Private…The Western Communiti…Metro Vancouver Regio…The Art Starts in Sch…Construction Foundati…Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woo…United Way British Co…
Vancity Community FoundationBC12.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · The Tong and Geraldine Louie Family Fondation · Loyal Protestant Association · The London Drugs Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Western Communities Foundation · Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation · The Art Starts in Schools Society · Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) Society · Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woodward's Foundation · United Way British Columbia

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 61 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 2022-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 137023685:2022-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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