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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

Footbridge Foundation

The foundation's objects are to apply the income and capital of the foundation for charitable purposes by distributing it to qualified donees as defined in the income tax act that are engaged in orthopaedic research or training.

C$723k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$232k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k17 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$48k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$665k
C$1,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA DEPT. OF ORTHOPAEDIC DIVISIC$232,251
VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTSC$181,246
SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETYC$100,000
BC CANCER SOCIETYC$81,098
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA THUNDERBIRD FOOTBALLC$70,000
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$37,500
MAKE-A-WISH CANADAC$10,000
SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT CANADA CHAPTERC$1,500
DANCEHOUSEC$1,000
THE VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETYC$1,000
SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMYC$1,000
THE DANCE CENTREC$1,000
THE CULTCHC$1,000
PUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL SOCIETYC$1,000
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALC$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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.4M · 8 repeat orgsC$412k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-3%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$334k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA DEPT. OF ORTHOPEDICS DIVISI
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +43%
  • VD
    VDC DANCE CENTRE SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2k · revenue +7%
  • GV
    GREATER VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • RD
    R.N.B. DANCE & THEATRE ARTS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$76k
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue -5%
  • TV
    THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue -3%

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
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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2
Movement Enterprises Society

Established in 2001 Movement Enterprise Society is a charitable non-profit society dance production creation and presentation platform in Vancouver BC. The Society is dedicated to producing innovative and accessible new works in…

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3
Pacific Ballet British Columbia Society

Ballet BC is an internationally acclaimed collaborative and creation-based contemporary ballet company that is a leader and resource in the creation production and education of contemporary dance in Canada. The company's regular…

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4
Dance//Novella Arts Society

Dance//Novella is the only professional dance company based in North Vancouver BC. Our program brings high-quality contemporary dance comparable to the level of Ballet BC to a community that rarely experiences live professional dance. In…

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5
Greater Vancouver Society to Bridge Arts and Community

BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre

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6
Vancouver International Dance Festival Society

The vancouver international dance festival (vidf) is a non-profit artist-run organization dedicated to supporting and furthering the art of culturally diverse contemporary dance. the vidf was launched in 2000 with the objective of putting…

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7
Vancouver Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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8
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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9
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre

We are one of the only two theatre companies in Canada that exclusively creates develops and produces new Asian Canadian work. We bring artistic excellence from the pan-Asian diaspora uplifting narratives previously unseen. We also provide…

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10
Vancouver International Children's Festival Society

The Vancouver International Children's Festival Society presented a fully in person festival from May 27-June 2nd 2024. We presented 14 international national and regional live shows plus hands on arts activities resulting in 75…

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11
Vancouver Creative Space Society
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12
Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Society

Conducts a competition to award scholarship to bc youth studying music. provide educational workshops master classes and seminars to young musicians in british columbia.

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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 Knowledge Network Corporation. 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

26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
6/26
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA DEPT. OF ORTHOPEDICS DIVISI — C$1,262,229 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS — C$181,246 over 1y, 56% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetR.N.B. DANCE & THEATRE ARTS SOCIETY — C$75,797 over 1y, 19% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$37,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVDC DANCE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEISMIC SHIFT ARTS SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS' CLUBS OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT CANADA CHAPTER — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOWLEDGE NETWORK — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA CANADA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPING AND HEALING INTERNATIONAL — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST UNITED CHURCH — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER POPPY FUND — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Vancouver FoundationR & J Stern Family Fo…Aqueduct FoundationThe Hamber FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Private Giving Founda…Dr. Ann Worth Charita…The Christopher Found…Audain FoundationDiamond Foundation
Zlc FoundationBC12.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · R & J Stern Family Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Dr. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · Audain Foundation · Diamond 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 26 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 791061328:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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