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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Flash Fund Foundation

The FLASH FUND FOUNDATION is a charitable foundation with the purpose of disbursing funds and property to qualified donees.

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$540k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$41k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$70k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$840k
C$7,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VGH/UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$540,000
ST. PAULS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$300,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$50,000
UBC ATHLETICS - WOODS ENDOWMENTC$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$10,000
THUNDERBIRD GOLF SOCIETYC$10,000
VANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERSC$10,000
THE MCLEAN MCCUAIG FOUNDATIONC$7,500
SALVATION ARMYC$5,500
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$5,500
THE SIR MORTIMER B. DAVIS JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CANUCK PLACE CHILDRENS HOSPICEC$5,000
BC SPCAC$5,000
ARTS UMBRELLA FOUNDATIONC$5,000
THE BRITISH COLUMBIA GOLF HOUSE SOCIETYC$1,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.3M · 17 repeat orgsC$638k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

C$4.3M
C$622k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+14%

Still filing today

82%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$16k 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

  • SP
    ST. PAULS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +156%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +55%
  • VH
    VGH/UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$631k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CU
    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · C$405k · revenue +14%
  • CU
    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$167k · revenue -58%
  • FF
    Focus Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +89%

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
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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2
Pacific Public Health Foundation

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…

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3
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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4
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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5
Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation
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6
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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7
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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8
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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9
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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10
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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11
Vancouver Community College Foundation

Providing scholarships and bursaries to students at vancouver community college providing equipment for programs at vancouver community college and providing funds for program development and faculties expansion at vancouver community…

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12
Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Girls Who Leap: Lead to Empower & Act With Purpose Society. 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

34 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. 34 of the 36 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
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 budgetST. PAULS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,794,840 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$1,297,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVGH/UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$631,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$405,294 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$279,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$167,028 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$66,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$64,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCLEAN MCCUAIG FOUNDATION — C$32,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetVANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS — C$25,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD GOLF SOCIETY — C$22,900 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$20,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$19,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFocus Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDRENS HOSPICE — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WHO LEAP — C$8,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBC SPCA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe British Columbia Golf House Society — C$5,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrans Canada Trail Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SIR MORTIMER B. DAVIS JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Coast Railway Association — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInclusion BC Foundation — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER SUN CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY BC — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society of BC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hanover and District Hospital Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER HOLOCAUST CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNOWLEDGE NETWORK CORPORATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANUCKS CHILDRENS PLACE — C$1,000 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.

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.

Zlc FoundationVancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Aqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationCanada GivesJohn C. Kerr Family F…First Light FoundationFace the World Founda…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Diamond FoundationJewish Federation of …
Zlc FoundationBC11.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Canada Gives · John C. Kerr Family Foundation · First Light Foundation · Face the World Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia

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 36 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 874458227:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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