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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

David and Dorothy Lam Foundation

Disbursements made to a variety of qualified donees.

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$32k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$400k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$850k
C$50,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUMC$500,000
WORLD VISION CANADAC$350,000
TERRY FOX RESEARCH INSTITUTEC$200,000
SACTUARY MENTAL HEALTH MINISTRIESC$100,000
VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SUCCESS FOUNDATIONC$12,000
WEST POINT GREY BAPTIST CHURCHC$10,000
BLOSSOMS CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$10,000
ARROW LEADERSHIPC$5,000
CITY IN FOCUSC$5,000
VANCOUVER URBAN MINISTRIESC$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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.5M · 23 repeat orgsC$644k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
18

Total granted

C$5.5M
C$619k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+45%

Still filing today

96%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k 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

  • WV
    WORLD VISION CANADA
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$682k · revenue +13%
  • BC
    BC Cancer Foundation
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$550k · revenue +33%
  • RC
    REGENT COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$520k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CH
    CROFTON HOUSE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$250k · revenue +171% · 32% of their budget
  • LW
    Living Word Chinese Baptist Church
    one grant, 2019 · C$87k · revenue -35%
  • TU
    The University of Waterloo Ontario
    one grant, 2018 · C$70k

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
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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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
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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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
Langara College Foundation

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

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9
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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10
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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11
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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12
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Navigators of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 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

42 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. 42 of the 44 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
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 budgetCHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM — C$1,000,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA — C$681,905 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$550,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREGENT COLLEGE — C$520,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTERRY FOX RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$450,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetREDLEAF FOUNDATION — C$365,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$305,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSACTUARY MENTAL HEALTH MINISTRIES — C$290,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetVGH & UBC Hospital Foundation — C$275,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMennonite Economic Development Associates — C$250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCROFTON HOUSE SCHOOL — C$250,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER URBAN MINISTRIES — C$105,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetS.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation — C$100,788 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetFar East Broadcasting Canada — C$90,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLiving Word Chinese Baptist Church — C$87,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCity in Focus — C$87,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetVancouver Cherry Blossom Festival — C$74,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetVANCOUVER FIREFIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$69,900 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$68,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY BC DIVISION — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLORD'S PEACE CHAPEL — C$34,250 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetST. GEORGE SCHOOL — C$30,575 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA Metro Vancouver — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Canadian Chinese Elderly Citizens Association — C$23,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Naviators of Canada — C$18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMB Mission — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Hill 70 Memorial Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBLOSSOMS CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMEALSHARE AID FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWEST POINT GREY BAPTIST CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCanadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTzu Chi Foundation Canada — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStewardship Foundation of Canada — C$5,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetARROW LEADERSHIP — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Vancouver Art Garrery Association — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetS.U.C.C.E.S.S. — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE OF CANADA — C$2,000 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.

Chan Better World Fou…Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Jimmy Chee FoundationChan Family FoundationThe Giustra FoundationVancouver FoundationJohn C. Kerr Family F…The Rennie FoundationBridgeway FoundationThe Foundation Office…
Chan Better World FoundationBC10.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chan Better World Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Jimmy Chee Foundation · Chan Family Foundation · The Giustra Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · John C. Kerr Family Foundation · The Rennie Foundation · Bridgeway Foundation · The Foundation Office.Ca

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 2024-03-27, 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 advancing religion.

Source object 118882745:2024-03-27 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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