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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Fairmont Foundation

It made donations to qualified donees.

C$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$68k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your 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$4k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$68k
C$2,566
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$423k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Columbia UniversityC$68,153
Vancouver Chinatown Foundation for Community RevitalizationC$2,566
Covenant House VancouverC$1,000
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 — 7% of grant dollars (C$33k). The 93% that went abroad (C$416k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 93% of all-years giving (C$416k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$416k · 7 grants

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$425k · 3 repeat orgsC$24k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

C$425k
C$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+37%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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

  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$416k
  • CM
    Coast Mental Health Foundation
    2× · 2019–2023 · C$7k · revenue +71%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY KATE BOOTH HOUSE
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$3k · revenue -90%

Funded once

  • CO
    CELEBRATION OF LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +72%
  • BC
    BC Cancer Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue -62%
  • S(
    S.E.A.S. (Support Enhance Access Services Centre)
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +9%

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
Coast Foundation Society (1974)

Coast foundation society (1974) provides a variety of community support programs: a. initiates develops and provides programs/housing and services which promote recovery of mental illness; b. provides through aquisition conversion and or…

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2
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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3
Vancouver Island Mental Health Society

Gateway house- a 10 bed fully staffed and licenced facility. it offers a therapeautic integrative and empowering life skills program. kc house brewster house and bob currie place provide smi-independent living housing and programs boundary…

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4
South Coast Wellness Addictions and Mental Health

CAMHS provides adult mental health services addiction services for all ages mental health and addiction crisis services peer support services (consumer survivor initiative) peer support for the crisis stabilization beds (community partner…

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5
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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6
Co:Here Foundation

The Foundation has developed housing to support vulnerable people in the Grandview Woodland neighbourhood in East Vancouver.

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7
Island Crisis Care Society

The society provides emergency shelter food and referrals for counseling and other services at multiple facilities in the mid-vancouver island region. supportive and transitional housing: samaritan place newcastle place orca place and…

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8
Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch

Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…

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9
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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10
Comox Valley Recovery Centre Society

Drug and alcohol treatment

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11
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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12
Canadian Mental Health Association Mid Island Branch

Supportive housing wellness development - social centre and employment program educational workshops homeless outreach and operation of an overdose prevention site.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Vancouver and the most unlike its peers is Celebration Life Ministries. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
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 budgetCELEBRATION OF LIFE — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCoast Mental Health Foundation — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetS.E.A.S. (Support Enhance Access Services Centre) — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVancouver Chinatown Foundation for Community Revitalization — C$2,566 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY KATE BOOTH HOUSE — C$2,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvalon Recovery Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 10 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 892873944:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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