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Delta, BC · Private foundation

Elm Foundation

Poverty relief entrepreneurship health care education

C$140k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$30k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$110k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$30,000
ST. PAULS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVERC$15,000
SURREY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$15,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
PATHFINDER YOUTH CENTRE SOCIETYC$10,000
ONE TO ONE LITERACYC$10,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S WOMEN'S HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATIC$10,000
BC CPCAC$10,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$5,000
DUNCAN AFRICAC$5,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$5,000
CODEC$5,000
DR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATIONC$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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 27 repeat orgsC$93k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
8

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+94%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • BC
    BC CHILDRENS HOUSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$225k · revenue +38%
  • SH
    SURREY HOSPITAL & OUTPATIENT CENTRE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$165k · revenue +105%
  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA'S WOMEN'S HOSPITAL + HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$98k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k · revenue +94%
  • WO
    WELLS OF HOPE
    one grant, 2020 · C$15k · revenue -22%
  • CG
    Canada Gives
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k

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.

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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
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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3
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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4
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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5
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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6
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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7
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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8
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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9
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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10
British Columbia Technology for Learning Society

Our mission is to provide job training for youth and access to refurbished technology for British Colombians. Our vision is a BC where everyone has equal access to technology and to tools to facilitate learning. BC Tech delivers equipment…

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11
Variety - the Children's Charity of Bc

Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations. Variety funds renovations equipment…

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12
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Centre D'etude Et De Cooperation Internationale. 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

32 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. 32 of the 36 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
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 budgetBC CHILDRENS HOUSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$225,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY HOSPITAL & OUTPATIENT CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$165,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S WOMEN'S HOSPITAL + HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$98,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetST. PAULS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$84,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetONE TO ONE LITERACY SOCIETY — C$78,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetDR. PETER AIOS FOUNDATION — C$65,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$62,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$62,500 over 8y, 88% of budgetBC CPCA — C$58,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUNCAN AFRICA — C$52,500 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$52,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPATHFINDER YOUTH CENTRE SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTOGETHER WE CAN FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetImagine One Day — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSVP VANCOUVER GENERAL FUND — C$25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMOM TO MOM CHILD POVERTY INTIATIVE SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE KIDSAFE PORJECT SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVancouver General Hospital — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRM CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSt. James Music Academy — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCAUSE CANADA — C$17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWELLS OF HOPE — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetST MARY WITH ST MARK ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$15,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF - IR CANADA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCECI — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCODE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.0% 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.

  • Who funds BC CHILDRENS HOUSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SURREY HOSPITAL & OUTPATIENT CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH COLUMBIA'S WOMEN'S HOSPITAL + HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST. PAULS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds ONE TO ONE LITERACY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DR. PETER AIOS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds BC CPCA ↗
  • Who funds DUNCAN AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PATHFINDER YOUTH CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER WE CAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Imagine One Day ↗
  • Who funds SVP VANCOUVER GENERAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds MOM TO MOM CHILD POVERTY INTIATIVE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE KIDSAFE PORJECT SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver General Hospital ↗
  • Who funds CRM CANADA ↗
  • Who funds St. James Music Academy ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds CAUSE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds WELLS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY WITH ST MARK ANGLICAN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF - IR CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CECI ↗
  • Who funds CODE ↗
  • Who funds Amnesty International ↗

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.

Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationUnited Way British Co…The Giustra FoundationVancouver FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Nicola Family Foundat…First Light FoundationPng Enterprise Founda…Spencercreo FoundationFace the World Founda…
Vancity Community FoundationBC11.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The Giustra Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Nicola Family Foundation · First Light Foundation · Png Enterprise Foundation · Spencercreo Foundation · Face the World 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 36 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 890995210:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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