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Deux Mille Foundation

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C$325k
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k62 grants · C$263k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$62k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BILL REID GALLERYC$25,000
MARTA MARTA HOP DANCE SOCIETYC$16,000
MUSIC ON MAIN STREETC$11,000
NEW PERFORMANCE WORKS SOCIETYC$10,000
MUSIC IN THE MORNINGC$8,000
VANCOUVER YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETYC$8,000
DANCE CENTRE SOCIETYC$8,000
BALLET BCC$8,000
PACIFIC REGION INTERNATIONAL SUMMER MUSIC ASSOCIATIONC$8,000
GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETYC$5,000
KICKSTART DISABILITY ARTS AND CULTUREC$5,000
ABBOTSFORD CULTURAL CENTRE (REACH GALLERY MUSEUM)C$5,000
ARTS CLUB THEATREC$5,000
VANCOUVER CHORAL ARTS SOCIETYC$5,000
ARTS UMBRELLAC$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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 54 repeat orgsC$181k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
26

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+15%

Still filing today

98%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$94k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • BR
    BILL REID GALLERY OF INDIGENOUS ART
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$254k · revenue +80%
  • VS
    VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$67k · revenue +50%
  • DC
    DANCE CENTRE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$52k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • UC
    U'MISTA CULTURAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$6k · revenue +96%
  • BC
    BRITANNIA COMMUNITY CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +6%
  • VI
    VANCOUVER ISLAND SYMPHONYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +755%

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 New Music Society

Over the 2023-24 season vancouver new music presented many free community based events. these included community workshops public installations and online presentations. in addition the 2023-24 series included many paid concerts

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2
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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3
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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4
Vancouver Chamber Music Society

Concert performance; outreach concert

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5
Dance//Novella Arts Society

Dance//Novella is the only professional dance company based in North Vancouver BC. Our program brings high-quality contemporary dance comparable to the level of Ballet BC to a community that rarely experiences live professional dance. In…

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6
Turning Point Ensemble

Based in Vancouver British Columbia Turning Point Ensemble is a large ensemble (core 16 instrumentalists) recognized for its outstanding musicianship. Founded in 2002 by its musician members Turning Point has a mandate to increase the…

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7
Movement Enterprises Society

Established in 2001 Movement Enterprise Society is a charitable non-profit society dance production creation and presentation platform in Vancouver BC. The Society is dedicated to producing innovative and accessible new works in…

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8
Greater Vancouver Society to Bridge Arts and Community

BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre

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9
Vancouver Independent Music Centre Society

In 2023-2024 vim successfully hosted eight public concerts at five lower mainland venues: kw studios fox cabaret annex anvil and hollywood theatres. the concerts freatured emerging young singer songwriters swing dance middle eastern music…

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10
Vancouver International Children's Festival Society

The Vancouver International Children's Festival Society presented a fully in person festival from May 27-June 2nd 2024. We presented 14 international national and regional live shows plus hands on arts activities resulting in 75…

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11
Victoria Summer Music Festival Society

The Victoria Summer Music Festival (VSMF) brings local Canadian and international musicians to Victoria to perform high-calibre chamber music. In 2024 the VSMF presented five evening concerts and one afternoon concert during July and…

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12
Vancouver Creative Space Society
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arts Club of Vancouver Theatre Society and the most unlike its peers is Glitch Theatre 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

104 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. 104 of the 105 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/104
Grantees still filing
52/104
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 budgetBILL REID GALLERY OF INDIGENOUS ART — C$254,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION — C$66,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDANCE CENTRE — C$52,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMUSIC ON MAIN — C$45,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetDANCE HOUSE — C$45,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMARTA MARTA HOP DANCE SOCIETY — C$43,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetPacific Region International Summer Music Academy — C$36,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetBALLET BC — C$33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER YOUTH CHOIR — C$30,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMUSIC IN THE MORNING — C$29,500 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetENCHOR CHOIR — C$21,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetCanadian Music Centre in BC — C$21,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVETA CHAMBER MUSIC — C$19,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetARTS CLUB THEATRE — C$18,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEWORLD THEATRE SOCIETY — C$18,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetVANCOUVER YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY — C$17,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$15,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetElektra Womens Choir — C$14,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNEW PERFORMANCE WORKS SOCIETY — C$14,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCHOR LEONI MEN'S CHOIR — C$14,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPRIDE IN ART SOCIETY — C$13,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND SYMPHONY — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNIKKEI NATIONAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE — C$11,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKIDD PIVOT PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWISH DROP IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER COUCIL FOR CARE — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetArts Umbrella Granville Island — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY — C$9,700 over 3y, 13% of budgetRADIX TREATRE SOCIETY — C$8,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBC MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — C$8,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDANCE WEST NETWORK SOCIETY — C$8,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY — C$8,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASTROLABE MUSIK THEATRE SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF VANCOUVER — C$7,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCAROUSEL THEATRE SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMUSICA INTIMA SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAVAW RAPE CRISIS CENTRE — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER WESTCOAST MUSIC SOCIETY — C$6,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetCONTINUUM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC — C$6,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRUBY SLIPPERS THEATRE — C$6,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 Hamber FoundationY.P.Heung FoundationMartha Lou Henley Cha…Lohn FoundationAlan and Gwendoline P…The Christopher Found…Vancity Community Fou…The Council for Busin…The McLean FoundationMathisen Family Priva…Chris-Spencer Foundat…John C. Kerr Family F…
The Hamber FoundationBC43× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Council for Business and the Arts in Canada · The McLean Foundation · Mathisen Family Private Foundation · Chris-Spencer Foundation · John C. Kerr Family 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 105 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 860811595:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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