Skip to content
Canadian charitiesAlso receives grants — funding profile →

Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

Central City Foundation

Donations to organizations to support programs which seek to provide services and facilities to enhance the lives of persons in need in the inner city of vancouver and in other parts of british columbia.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 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–50k4 grants · C$109k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.0M
C$30,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL CITY HOUSING SOCIETYC$1,000,000
DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCIETYC$30,000
DUGOUT DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETYC$30,000
ATIRA'S WOMEN'S RESOURCE SOCIETYC$30,000
PACIFIC COMMUNITY RESOURCE SOCIETYC$18,750
EASTSIDE MOVEMENT FOR BUSINESS & ECONOMIC RENEWALC$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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.9M · 23 repeat orgsC$514k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
23

Total granted

C$5.9M
C$484k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+38%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$30k 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

  • CC
    CENTRAL CITY HOUSING SOCIETY
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$4.4M · revenue +149% · 67% of their budget
  • TD
    THE DUGOUT DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$255k · revenue +144% · 28% of their budget
  • CC
    City Centre Care Society
    3× · 2017–2022 · C$194k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • PC
    POTLUCK CAFE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue -31%
  • BA
    BC ABORIGINAL CHILDCARE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$75k · revenue +84%
  • NO
    NETWORK OF INNER CITY COMMUNITIES (HIVES FOR HUMANITY)graduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$40k · revenue +27%

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
Affordable Housing: Vancouver Island Society
—
2
Northern John Howard Society of Bc

Homelessness prevention program homelessness partnering strategy program family violence prevention stop program northern john howard society rental housing.

—
3
Ywca British Columbia

1. housing for single mothers children at risk women people in crisis 2. early learning and care centres for children 0 - 6 3. crabtree community - programs and services for women & children in the downtown east side. including food…

—
4
Island Crisis Care Society

The society provides emergency shelter food and referrals for counseling and other services at multiple facilities in the mid-vancouver island region. supportive and transitional housing: samaritan place newcastle place orca place and…

—
5
Seniors Services Society of Bc

Seniors Services Society of BC (SSSBC) is a non-profit organization located in New Westminster BC that connects adults age 60 and older living in BC communities to housing navigation services and supports that help them age well and…

—
6
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…

—
7
Homelessness Services Association of Bc

The society provides support to and enhance the capacity of organizations in bc that serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness. the society provides training to front line shelter workers throughout the province. there are…

—
8
Vancouver Status of Women

Vancouver Status of Women's ongoing work focuses on feminist community building with women and gender diverse peoples towards equity in social political and economic spheres. The Coordinating Collective provides ongoing support to…

—
9
Connective Support Society

Connective is a community-based social services nonprofit operating in BC and the Yukon to create safe healthy and inclusive communities for all. Over the past 90 years we’ve woven a strong social safety net that addresses the needs of all…

—
10
Vancouver Island Mental Health Society

Gateway house- a 10 bed fully staffed and licenced facility. it offers a therapeautic integrative and empowering life skills program. kc house brewster house and bob currie place provide smi-independent living housing and programs boundary…

—
11
Vancouver Rape Relief Society

The society operates programs aimed to end violence against women and to act as an educational force for progressive changes in attitudes laws institutional procedures and to work for the prevention of rape. vancouver rape relief society…

—
12
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…

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Mission Possible Canada. 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. 46 of the 47 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
41/46
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 budgetCENTRAL CITY HOUSING SOCIETY — C$4,400,000 over 7y, 67% of budgetTHE DUGOUT DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$255,000 over 7y, 28% of budgetCity Centre Care Society — C$193,896 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetATIRA WOMEN'S RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$134,442 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBATTERED WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$112,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$101,861 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPOTLUCK CAFE SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDAITON — C$86,870 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBC ABORIGINAL CHILDCARE SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCIETY — C$55,964 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetCHRYSALIS SOCIETY — C$55,232 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetUrban Native Youth Foundation — C$54,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$53,284 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTIDES CANADA INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$52,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEASTSIDE MOVEMENT FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC RENEWAL SOCIETY — C$48,461 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTREET CORNER MEDIA FOUNDATION — C$45,565 over 3y, 11% of budgetNETWORK OF INNER CITY COMMUNITIES (HIVES FOR HUMANITY) — C$39,642 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMCCREARY CENTRE SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMOUNT PLEASANT NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE — C$30,690 over 1y, 21% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE — C$30,680 over 2y, 16% of budgetIMMIGRANT SERVICES SOCIETY OF BC — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBritannia Community Services Centre Society — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY FOR THE DOWNTOWN EAST SIDE — C$28,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGordon Neighbourhood House — C$26,714 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetVANCOUVER NATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTWORK ECONOMIC INITIATIVE — C$23,272 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO 39 — C$20,108 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACE Society — C$16,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD NEIGHBOURHOOD ASSOCIATION — C$15,177 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDowntown Eastside Women's Centre Association — C$15,143 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER COMMUNITY NETWORK ON BEHALF OF FOUR DIRECTIONS TRA — C$13,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPACIFICA TREATMENT CENTRE — C$12,205 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULTIVATE CANADA FOR SOLE FOOD FARMS — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe KidSafe Project Society — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S PLACE — C$8,726 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER SECOND MILE SOCIETY — C$7,840 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS FOUNDATION OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$7,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKINBRACE SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFirst Funds Society — C$6,300 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCIETY — C$6,024 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIWASSA NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE — C$5,235 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE — C$4,755 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER ABORIGINAL CHILD & FAMILY — C$775 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.

Vancity Community Fou…Greater Vancouver Foo…Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationSpencercreo FoundationVancouver Unitarians …Face the World Founda…The Houssian Foundati…Right To FoodMakeway FoundationBc Government Employe…
Vancity Community FoundationBC24.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Spencercreo Foundation · Vancouver Unitarians Society · Face the World Foundation · The Houssian Foundation · Right To Food · Makeway Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust

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 47 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 2024-03-31, 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 134639558:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

Play a game based on Central City’s filings →