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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

Face the World Foundation

Provide funding to a variety of charitable organizations which provide assistance to the poor the homeless the abused and those people in society who desperately need help.

C$567k
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k34 grants · C$163k
  • C$10k–50k28 grants · C$354k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$5,250
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$50,000
ARTS UMBRELLAC$40,000
BILL REID GALLEERY OF NORTH WEST COAST ART FTWC$23,000
MUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$20,000
LEARNING BUDDIESC$20,000
BABYGOROUNDC$15,000
VANCOUVER HOMEWORK CLUB SOCIETYC$13,600
BIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLANDC$12,000
ZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDRENC$10,000
VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
AUNT LEAH'S PLACEC$10,000
TREEHOUSE ADVOCACY CENTREC$10,000
TOGETHER WE CANC$10,000
WISH DROP IN CENTRE SOCIETYC$10,000
BACKPACK BUDDIESC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 42% of grant dollars (C$1.0M). The 58% that went abroad (C$1.5M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 58% of all-years giving (C$1.5M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

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International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.6M · 83 repeat orgsC$856k to everyone else

83 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
85

Total granted

C$1.6M
C$663k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+19%

Still filing today

48%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$193k 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

  • AU
    ARTS UMBRELLA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$45k · revenue +2%
  • NP
    NEEKOO PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$33k · revenue +361%
  • LB
    LEARNING BUDDIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$30k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • FO
    Face of Today Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k
  • WB
    Westcoast Boys Club Network Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$30k
  • PC
    PLEA Community Service Society of BC
    one grant, 2017 · C$20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Vancouver Status of Women

Vancouver Status of Women's ongoing work focuses on feminist community building with women and gender diverse peoples towards equity in social political and economic spheres. The Coordinating Collective provides ongoing support to…

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4
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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5
Homelessness Services Association of Bc

The society provides support to and enhance the capacity of organizations in bc that serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness. the society provides training to front line shelter workers throughout the province. there are…

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6
Vancouver Rape Relief Society

The society operates programs aimed to end violence against women and to act as an educational force for progressive changes in attitudes laws institutional procedures and to work for the prevention of rape. vancouver rape relief society…

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7
Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society

We raise funds from donors for the purpose of financing programs and projects that address homelessness. we conduct and provide assistance to homelessness and housing initiatives programs projects support services and special needs…

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8
Connective Support Society

Connective is a community-based social services nonprofit operating in BC and the Yukon to create safe healthy and inclusive communities for all. Over the past 90 years we’ve woven a strong social safety net that addresses the needs of all…

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9
Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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10
Dress for Success Vancouver Society

Dress for Success Vancouver empowers women into good jobs financial independence and personal success. We opened our doors 25 years ago with a mission to empower women into the workforce by helping them make a great first impression…

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11
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver and the most unlike its peers is Radix 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.

03the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 195 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
40/85
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEEKOO PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY — C$32,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetLEARNING BUDDIES — C$30,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTREEHOUSE CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY — C$30,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$28,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER HOMEWORK CLUB SOCIETY — C$26,600 over 3y, 26% of budgetSTRATHCONA COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBABYGOROUND — C$25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBILL REID GALLEERY OF NORTH WEST COAST ART FTW — C$23,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$23,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$23,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWISH DROP IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARVEST PROJECT — C$21,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S PLACE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDREN — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFIRST UNITED — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER SECOND MILE SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMOM2MOM CHILD POVERTY — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEMPLOY TO EMPOWER — C$12,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSILVER HARBOUR SENIORS CENTRE — C$11,137 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA METRO VAN — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAN (CANUCKS AUTISM NETWORK) — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOM GROUP — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS FDN SOUTH COAST — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERARTION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD STASH — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY BC — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUBC CAMPOUT! — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLE FOOD STREET FARMS ( CULTIVATE CANADA SOCIETY) — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTS UMBRELLA ↗
  • Who funds NEEKOO PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING BUDDIES ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER HOMEWORK CLUB SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds STRATHCONA COMMUNITY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds BABYGOROUND ↗
  • Who funds BILL REID GALLEERY OF NORTH WEST COAST ART FTW ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WISH DROP IN CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds AUNT LEAH'S PLACE ↗

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 FoundationDiamond FoundationVancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Greater Vancouver Foo…Zlc FoundationLohn FoundationAl Roadburg FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Vancouver FoundationThe Giustra Foundation
The Hamber FoundationBC25.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · Zlc Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Al Roadburg Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Vancouver Foundation · The Giustra 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 195 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 896579737:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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