Vancouver, BC · Public foundation
Buschlen Mowatt Nichol (1994) Foundation
Donation to charities.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION | C$37,500 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- AUARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · C$325k · revenue +11%
- DPDR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2023 · C$10k · revenue +106%
- BIBOWEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL2× · 2019–2020 · C$10k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- ISINDIAN SUMMER ARTS SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue -21%
- GVGREATER VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue +44%
- FFFUND FOR THE ARTS ON THE NORTH SHOREone grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue +22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre
The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…
The society annually conducts a performing arts festival serving the Greater Victoria area.
The Festival began with a vision to build a vibrant sustainable festival that engages the community provides economic benefit to the region drives tourism and become part of the fabric of the region as a whole.
Promote and operate an annual independent film festival
The vancouver art gallery is a public art museum that showcases primarily contemporary works by bc canadian and international artists. as in prior years the gallery presents both touring exhibitions as well as exhibitions focused on the…
Vancouver international jazz festival year-round jazz concerts and related educational programs.
The vancouver international dance festival (vidf) is a non-profit artist-run organization dedicated to supporting and furthering the art of culturally diverse contemporary dance. the vidf was launched in 2000 with the objective of putting…
1) Islands Short Fiction Review 2) Ekphrastic Celebration 3) Art Around Town 4) Night Market 5) Online Galleries 6) Nanaimo Artwalk 7)Regional art promotional 8)Art Research
To support and promote the lgbtq community through the vancouver queer arts frestival and other related activities.
Vines art festival- 10 day arts festival featuring over 100 artists- support from volunteers on filming organizing and gathering aritists emerging creatives program- 3 month youth program that provides mentorship for young people resilient…
Arts scholarships
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society and the most unlike its peers is Dr Peter Aids Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL OPEN SPACES SCULPTURE BIENNALE ↗
- Who funds DR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOWEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INDIAN SUMMER ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS ON THE NORTH SHORE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.