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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Era Foundation

Invested funds in director's life insurance which will serve as a means of providing the foundation with a deferred source of revenue that will be available ot serve the interests of the foundation.

C$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$5,100
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMPLOY TO EMPOWER FOUNDATIONC$10,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN CANADAC$5,100
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH COAST BCC$1,700
02Your 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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Tech Spark Canada

Tech Spark is Canadas first tech and design school committed to empowering children of colour girls women and teachers through innovative education. We specialize in creating revising and teaching inquiry-based student-centered K-12…

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2
Yell Canada

Yell advances education by running entrepreneurial programs for youth in partnership with school districts. the programs include classroom resources sourcing speakers and mentors for teachers and events for students. these programs equip…

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3
Knowledge Empowering Youth Canada
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4
Engineering and Geoscience Education Foundation Bc

Provide scholarships and bursaries to post-secondary students in the study of engineering of geoscience

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5
Youth Challenge International

Yci delivers creative market-ready solutions that catapult youth in canada and globally to succeed and prosper. yci's international programs contribute towards sustainable youth livelihoods. herstart innovate the future is an 8 year…

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6
Skills Canada - British Columbia Chapter

Skills canada (british columbia chapter) works with industry educators government and labour to promote rewarding in-demand skilles trade & technology careers to bc's youth.ongoing programs include: -provincial skills competition -regional…

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7
Inside Education Society of Alberta

Inside Education programs aim to create generations of engaged citizens who understand the important relationships betweenenvironment economy and society and who think critically and creatively about environmental topics and actively…

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8
Student Energy

Chapters Career Training Energy Literacy Platform Fellows Guided Projects Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program SevenGen Student Energy Summit Space for Youth

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9
Empowering Indigenous Youth in Governance and Leadership (Eiygl)
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10
EcoSchools Canada

EcoSchools Canada delivers programs to advance environmental education and leadership in K-12 schools across Canada. Ongoing programs include a certification program for K-12 schools that promotes and recognizes environmental learning and…

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11
Spe Canadian Educational Foundation

The foundation supported scholarships operated administered and conducted by canadian educational institutions and other charities supporting the education of students intending careers related to the science engineering and technology…

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12
Success Beyond Limits Education Program Inc.

To advance education by providing canadian youth in selected (at-risk) communities with opportunities to enrich and advance their education through educational mentorship summer and school-year activities courses and programs established…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indspire and the most unlike its peers is St. George's School. 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

9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEMPLOY TO EMPOWER FOUNDATION — C$41,500 over 6y, 32% of budgetST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL — C$21,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShad Valley International — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE CHILDREN CANADA — C$5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATER FIRST EDUCATION AND TRAINING INC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COQUITLAM FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOWERPLAY YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationBenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 9 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 865245856:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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