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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Essential Needs Foundation

Recieve bequests legacies donations gifts funds and property from all sources and to hold invest administer and distribute such funds and property to such other organizations as are 'qualified donees' under the provisions of the income tax act recieve poverty by providing basic amenities including food clothing and shelter to…

C$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$28k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$14k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VETERANS TRANSITION NETWORKC$14,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$5,000
CLAYOQUOT BIOSPHERE TRUST SOCIETYC$5,000
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$5,000
CHRIST CHURCH PARISH VANCOUVERC$5,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$2,000
VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONC$2,000
MONARCH PLACEC$2,000
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$1,500
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$259k · 12 repeat orgsC$8k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

C$259k
C$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • VT
    VETERANS TRANSITION NETWORK
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$86k · revenue +247%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$35k · revenue +81%
  • GV
    GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$18k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • SD
    SWIM DRINK FISH
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue -8%
  • MA
    Make a wish foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k
  • SO
    Special Olympics
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue +5%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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6
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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7
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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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
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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10
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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11
Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation
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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is St Columba Church. 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

18 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)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
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 budgetVETERANS TRANSITION NETWORK — C$86,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH PARISH VANCOUVER — C$43,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSWAY FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$11,505 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLAYOQUOT BIOSPHERE TRUST SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONARCH PLACE — C$7,830 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSWIM DRINK FISH — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer British Columbia — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST. COLUMBA ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$2,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMake a wish foundation — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKristian Domingo Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBCIT Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

United Way British Co…The Victoria Foundati…Bc Government Employe…Nicola Wealth Private…Vancity Community Fou…Aqueduct FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Vancouver FoundationZlc FoundationRaymond James Canada …Telus Employees Chari…Canada Gives
United Way British ColumbiaBC9.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · The Victoria Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Vancouver Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Canada Gives

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 18 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 2024-03-31, 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 803575067:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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