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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Chan Family Foundation

To fund for qualified donees including schools etc.

C$346k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$29k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$162k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$155k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATIONC$55,000
GNS FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SIERRA CLUB OF BC FOUNDATIONC$50,000
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIAC$25,000
THE POLYGON GALLERYC$25,000
VANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATIONC$22,000
POWER TO GIVE FOUNDATIONC$20,000
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY - NAWALAKW CULTURE PROJECTC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$15,000
SUCCESS FOUNDATIONC$15,000
CHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$10,000
KITASOO XAI'XAIS STEWARDSHIP AUTHORITYC$10,000
THE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATIONC$7,000
DR. SUN YAT-SEN CLASSICAL CHINESE GARDENC$5,000
POWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY SOCIETYC$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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$10M · 33 repeat orgsC$5.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
29

Total granted

C$10M
C$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+46%

Still filing today

97%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$96k 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

  • VA
    VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$5.5M · revenue +100%
  • BC
    BC Cancer Foundation
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$816k · revenue +64%
  • VC
    VANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$601k · revenue +359%

Funded once

  • VA
    VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$5.3M · revenue -3%
  • CI
    CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$139k · revenue +76%
  • CR
    Canadian Red Cross
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue -28%

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
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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2
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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3
Vancouver Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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4
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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5
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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6
Langara College Foundation

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

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7
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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8
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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9
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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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
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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12
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Coquitlam Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Crofton House School. 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

65 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. 65 of the 69 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
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 ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$5,468,700 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$5,350,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetBURRARD ARTS FOUNDATION — C$1,725,000 over 7y, 93% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$816,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION — C$600,800 over 6y, 19% of budgetTHE POLYGON GALLERY BC PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ARTS SOCIETY — C$381,900 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCanuck Place Children's Hospice — C$179,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$165,234 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLENLYON NORFOLF SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION — C$139,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB OF BC FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY-NAWALAKW CULTURE PROJECT — C$65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCoastal Mental Health Foundation — C$59,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — C$58,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$55,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDavid Suzuki Foundation — C$53,348 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROFTON HOUSE SCHOOL — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCESS FOUNDATION — C$42,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetS.U.C.C.E.S.S. FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER TO GIVE FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — C$25,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBCSPCA — C$19,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOOKING GLASS FOUNDATION — C$13,625 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWHISTLER COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$11,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$10,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$10,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,025 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVGH & UBC Hospital Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Centre Family Services Association — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Coquitlam Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetQQS (EYES) PROJECTS SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPOWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S SOCIETY BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe McLean McCuaig Foundation — C$7,700 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRICHMOND FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOLDSTREAM FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDR. SUN YAT-SEN CLASSICAL CHINESE GARDEN — C$6,980 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBABYGOROUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPuSh International Performing Arts Festival — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHISTLER 360 HEALTH COLLABORATIVE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$4,955 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD BASEBALL CLASSIC — C$4,630 over 3y, 2.9% 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.

Zlc FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…The Hamber FoundationBeedie FoundationThe Connor Clark & L…Raymond James Canada …The Andrew Mahon Foun…Heathcliff Foundation
Zlc FoundationBC17.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Hamber Foundation · Beedie Foundation · The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Heathcliff 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 69 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 888228921:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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