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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Dick Barr Charitable Foundation

C$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$561
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA BLUE JAYS BASEBALL CLUBC$1,000
WESTMINSTER HOUSE SOCIETYC$1,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$500
PENDER HARBOUR HEALTH CENTREC$250
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$8k · 4 repeat orgsC$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +127% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

C$8k
C$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+127%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • KF
    KPU FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$3k · revenue +127%
  • TP
    THE PENDER HARBOUR & DISTRICT HEALTH CENTRE SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$1k · revenue +149%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    2× · 2019–2024 · C$750 · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • RL
    RUBY LAKE LAGOON NATURE RESERVE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue -28%
  • BC
    BC CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +69%
  • CA
    CROHN'S AND COLITIS CANADA
    one grant, 2020 · C$500

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
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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3
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

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

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4
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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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
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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7
Pink Warrior Foundation
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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
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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10
The Vancouver Chinatown Lions Medical and Scholarship Foundation
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11
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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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 Westminster House Society and the most unlike its peers is The Loon 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRUBY LAKE LAGOON NATURE RESERVE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER HOUSE SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKPU FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENDER HARBOUR & DISTRICT HEALTH CENTRE SOCIETY — C$1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE WARRIORS FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWELL RIVER ACADEMY OF MUSIC — C$100 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.

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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 11 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 2024-11-30, 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 818554677:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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