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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

Cause We Care Foundation

To advance education and enhance the employability of low-income single mothers by providing funding for academic tuition vocational training and other employability training and for costs and expenses associated with undertaking such education and skills training programs and other activities that enhance employability; to relieve…

C$680k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$304k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$8k
  • C$10k–50k17 grants · C$368k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$304k
C$20,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$827k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITIES CANADAC$303,750
YWCA METRO VANCOUVERC$40,000
FIRST CALL CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY SOCIETYC$28,000
MOM TO MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVE SOCIETYC$25,000
CYTHERA TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETYC$25,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS VANCOUVER SOCIETYC$25,000
KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETYC$25,000
MAMAS FOR MAMASC$25,000
AUNT LEAH'S PLACEC$20,209
ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BCC$20,000
MARPOLE OAKRIDGE FAMILY PLACEC$20,000
LEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$20,000
URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES (PROMISE VANCOUVER)C$20,000
PALS AUTISM SOCIETYC$20,000
WENDA'S PLACE TRANSITION HOUSEC$20,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.6M · 29 repeat orgsC$218k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
11

Total granted

C$3.6M
C$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+33%

Still filing today

97%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$83k 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

  • YW
    Young Women's Christian Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$946k · revenue +126%
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$698k · revenue +29%
  • UC
    UNIVERSITIES CANADA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$495k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • OD
    Open Door Social Services Societygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$36k · revenue +33%
  • CT
    CHANGE THE WORLD FOUNDATION ( HARVEST PROJECT)
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue -4%
  • HC
    HAVE CULINARY TRAINING SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$22k · revenue +235%

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
Options Community Services Society

Options community services offers programs in surrey delta cloverdale white rock and langley. the society's fraser health crisis line serves the entire fraser health region from tri-cites to boston bar. options provides programs in many…

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2
Sea to Sky Community Services Society

The Society offers more then 42 programs in the Sea to Sky Corridor supported by various funding sources including individual donors foundations and government partners. Adult and Family Services provides clinical and therapeutic care for…

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3
Sunshine Coast Community Services Society

Family Youth & Children's Services programs are family-centered inclusive and promote active participation in supporting pregnant women new moms parents caregivers children and youth. We also provide programs in prevention intervention and…

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4
Cowichan Women Against Violence Society

Cwav society provides client-centered safety shelter counselling and advocacy in support of individual family and community well-being. ongoing programs include somenos transition house women's night shelter homelessness prevention program…

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5
Surrey Women's Centre Society

Offers a range of low barrier drop in resources including crisis court counselling advocacy and health services for individuals who have experienced gender-based violence. Accompaniment to hospital police and court. Specialized co-location…

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6
Boundary Women's Coalition

Boundary Women's Coalition operates a Transition House for women (and their children) who are at risk of or have experienced violence a Second Stage Housing Program for women (and their children) who have left abusive relationships and are…

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7
Victoria Women's Transition House Society

For 50 years Victoria Women's Transition House Society has provided safe shelter counselling education and support for women of all ages with or without children to live free from violence and abuse in intimate relationships. We strive to…

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8
Atira Women's Resource Society

The society operates 11 housing programs for women and children in the whiterock and surrey areas one in richmond one in burnaby and 18 in vancouver. the society provides support programs for women and children who have witnessed and/or…

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9
Threshold Housing Society

The Society continues to provide long-term transitional housing for youth ages 16-25 at risk of becoming homeless. Two housing programs are offered based on the ability of the individual to live independently. A Life Skills component helps…

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10
The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver

We provide residential programs and supportive housing for women and youth who are homeless or have addiction and or mental health issues. we provide intensive case management programs for women exiting prison who are chronically homeless…

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11
Vancouver Lower Mainland Multicultural Family Support Services Society

Counseling advocacy support to women -specialized victims services -children who witness abuse -volunteers program

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12
1UP Victoria Single Parent Resource Centre Society

Core programs provide up to ten free counselling sessions on a one-on-one basis for single parents. Also offered is a suite of life skills courses and workshops parenting skills development courses and parenting support groups. A Peer…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services of Greater Vancouver and the most unlike its peers is Pals Autism Society. 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

46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
35/46
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 budgetYoung Women's Christian Association — C$945,576 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER) — C$697,578 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITIES CANADA — C$495,450 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KIDSSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$218,126 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetBC SOCIETY OF TRANSITION HOUSE — C$173,230 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetRay-Cam Community Association — C$170,982 over 8y, 14% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BC — C$131,631 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOM TO MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$95,928 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS VANCOUVER SOCIETY — C$80,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES NORTH SHORE — C$55,044 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWENDA'S PLACE TRANSITION HOUSE — C$52,300 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE CRISIS SERVICES SOCIETY — C$51,948 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCYTHERA TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$48,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetURBANPROMISE MINISTRIES (PROMISE VANCOUVER) — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTradeworks Training Society — C$37,480 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetOpen Door Social Services Society — C$35,715 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S PLACE — C$35,209 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCHANGE THE WORLD FOUNDATION ( HARVEST PROJECT) — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFIRST CALL CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY SOCIETY — C$28,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHAVE CULINARY TRAINING SOCIETY — C$22,174 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSARDIS DOORWAY FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN SOCIETY — C$20,600 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetMARPOLE OAKRIDGE FAMILY PLACE — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPALS AUTISM SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH SHORE WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$19,497 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY KATE BOOTH HOUSE & ESTHER'S PLACE — C$17,225 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMUSLIM FOOD BANK AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORT SHORE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE — C$12,180 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSOURCES COMMUNITY RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$11,532 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA BC — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SOCIETY — C$9,798 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM MOTHER'S SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$9,556 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FAMILY SERVICES — C$8,863 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION — C$6,992 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRASER HEALTH AUTHORITY — C$6,043 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSARA FOR WOMEN SOCIETY — C$5,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE CHOICE SECOND STAGE TRANSITION HOUSE — C$4,512 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAct II Child and Family Services — C$4,487 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES AGENCY — C$3,155 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER RAPE RELIEF SOCIETY — C$2,420 over 2y, 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.

United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Bc Government Employe…Youth and Philanthrop…Vancouver FoundationCanadian Women's Foun…Ocean Wise Conservati…Nicola Wealth Private…Raymond James Canada …The Hamber FoundationGreater Vancouver Foo…West Vancouver Commun…
United Way British ColumbiaBC18.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Vancouver Foundation · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · West Vancouver Community 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 44 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 2024-07-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 836700401:2024-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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