Vancouver, BC · Private foundation
Fairbairn Foundation
The disbursement of funds to qualified donees
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA METRO VANCOUVER | C$5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND | C$5,000 |
| RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES | C$5,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | C$5,000 |
| COMOX VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE | C$5,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | C$5,000 |
| CONSERVANCY HORNBY ISLAND | C$4,000 |
| PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION | C$3,000 |
| DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION | C$3,000 |
| SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY | C$2,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.
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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND8× · 2017–2024 · C$40k · revenue +27%
- CPCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE8× · 2017–2024 · C$36k · revenue +76%
- AIAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · C$34k · revenue ×145
Funded once
- HIHORNBY ISLAND ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue -29%
- LGLUMARA GRIEF & BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +25%
- YMYWCA Metro Vancouverone grant, 2018 · C$4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…
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…
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…
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…
1. save bc wolves - our goal is to ensure that wolves have adequate habitat to continue their critical role as a keystone species. 2. protect pacific herring - we are working with central coast communities to highlight the importance of…
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…
Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…
This is Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society's (VAMMR) first year of operations as a registered charity and is a global leader in marine mammal rescue research and rehabilitation. VAMMR responds to over 300 marine mammal…
Public Engagement – increasing the understanding of the importance of the health of Georgia Strait as a regional ecosystem and providing individuals and communities with the tools to take local and regional action to improve the health of…
The Comox Valley Land Trust has three programs: 1. Land Protection Program and 2. Comox Valley Conservation Partnership and 3. Conservation Science Program . The Land Protection Program protects and stewards lands of ecological…
Watershed restoration including restoring fish habitat in the upper rivervine systems and the Squamish estuary. Running educational and outreach programming for students and community. Hosting and holding events (Earth Day Rivers Day).…
Salmon coast supports innovative research public education community outreach and ecosystem awareness to achieve lasting conservation measures for the lands and waters of the broughton archipelago and surrounding areas by: - helping…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Saint James Music Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 18 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND ↗
- Who funds CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RAINCITY HOUSING AND SUPPORT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA METRO VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES ↗
- Who funds SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY HORNBY ISLAND ↗
- Who funds RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMOX VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HORNBY ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LUMARA GRIEF & BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hornby Island Educational Society ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario
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.