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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

City in Focus Foundation

The charity provides religious teaching counselling support and assistance to individuals in the lower mainland

C$34k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$71k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLY GLOBAL FOUNDATIONC$6,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF VANCOUVERC$6,240
ST MARK'S COLLEGEC$5,000
SALVATION ARMYC$5,000
FIRST PACIFIC THEATRE SOCIETYC$5,000
ST FAITH'S ANGLICAN CHURCHC$2,500
HOPE IN THE SHADOWSC$1,500
RATANAK INTERNATIONALC$1,353
WHOLE WAY HOUSEC$900
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$195k · 26 repeat orgsC$58k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
46

Total granted

C$195k
C$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+12%

Still filing today

96%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$23k · revenue +284%
  • SM
    ST MARK'S COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$20k · revenue +132%
  • FP
    FIRST PACIFIC THEATRE SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CL
    CITYGATE LEADERSHIP FORUM
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k
  • EE
    EAST END BOY'S CLUB
    one grant, 2021 · C$4k
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k · revenue -14%

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
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…

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2
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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3
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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4
Anhart Community Housing Society

Anhart Community Housing Society is a humanitarian organization that provides supportive housing to persons of low income and/or who are at risk to homelessness because of mental and physical health concerns addictions and concurrent…

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5
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…

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6
B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation

The foundation provides financial and human resources to charitable not for profit groups focused on community service. the foundation provides grants to qualified donees that provide services in the areas of: social services education and…

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7
Citystudio Vancouver Society

Citystudio vancouver program: innovation hub that coordinates projects between the city of vancouver and local post-secondary institutions by bringing together city staff students faculty and community to co create experimental projects…

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8
Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society

We raise funds from donors for the purpose of financing programs and projects that address homelessness. we conduct and provide assistance to homelessness and housing initiatives programs projects support services and special needs…

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9
Vancouver Food Runners Society

At vancouver food runners our mission is to respond to the unfortunate disconnect between the fact that over 40% of all food produced is wasted or lost while one in nine household in british columbia are food insecure. oue aim is to…

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10
Co:Here Foundation

The Foundation has developed housing to support vulnerable people in the Grandview Woodland neighbourhood in East Vancouver.

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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…

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12
Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nightshift Street Ministries Society and the most unlike its peers is The London Drugs Foundation. 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

67 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. 67 of the 75 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/67
Grantees still filing
44/67
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 budgetStewardship Foundation of Canada — C$38,670 over 2y, 13% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$22,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetST MARK'S COLLEGE — C$20,350 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST PACIFIC THEATRE SOCIETY — C$16,313 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetARCHDIOCESE OF VANCOUVER — C$14,942 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetA ROCHA CANADA — C$7,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCity Gate Leadership Forum — C$7,661 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetHOPE IN THE SHADOWS — C$7,600 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSUPPORT FOR AL MCKAY'S MINISTRY — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLY GLOBAL FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF VANCOUVER — C$6,240 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIOCESE OF NEW WESTMINSTER — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY HOME COMMUNITY — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDTES RESPONSE — C$5,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONATION — C$4,720 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetG & I SHINING STARS YOUTH SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWHOLE WAY HOUSE SOCIETY — C$3,650 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSALBATION ARMY — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIASPORA ENGAGEMENT FUND DONATION — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST FAITH'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRATANAK INTERNATIONAL — C$2,353 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SEA PHILANTHROPY INC. — C$2,281 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSignal Hill — C$2,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION CENTRAL — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — C$1,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOUR HOUSE SOCIETY — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LONDON DRUGS FOUNDATION — C$1,685 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDONATION — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE FUND - DONATION — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARISH OF ST. FAITH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADAHELPS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPORTLAND HOTEL COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER URBAN MINISTRIES — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMINISTRY DONATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANXIETY CANADA ASSOCIATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION — C$771 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY — C$600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank — C$524 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEH RADCLIFFE FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Chinatown Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION (CANADA) INC. — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELP CHANGE MY CITY SOCIAL YOUTH TRUST SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFocolare Movement — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOPPER RIDGE CONFERENCE CENTRE — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Giustra FoundationNicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Vancouver FoundationGreater Vancouver Foo…Raymond James Canada …The Foundation Office…Zlc FoundationParish of St. FaithDjavad Mowafaghian Fo…Telus Employees Chari…
The Giustra FoundationON22.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Giustra Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Foundation Office.Ca · Zlc Foundation · Parish of St. Faith · Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable 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 75 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 2024-10-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under support of religion.

Source object 891636573:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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