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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Frank & Joan Lew Charitable Trust

The trust disbursed funds to twelve qualified donees; bc cancer foundation vancouver chinatown foundation for community revitalization woman’s college hospital foundation arthritis society canada canadian cancer society west end seniors’ network society the arts club theatre company h.r.

C$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$22k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$29k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$22k
C$3,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FJL HOUSING SOCIETYC$22,000
VANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY REVITALIZATIONC$8,700
MUSIC IN THE MORNING CONCERT SOCIETYC$5,000
THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATIONC$3,000
ARTS CLUB THEATER COMPANYC$3,000
VANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETYC$3,000
VANCOUVER OPERA ASSOCIATIONC$3,000
THE ARTHRITIS SOCIETYC$1,500
H.R. MACMILLIAN SPACE CENTRE SOCIETYC$1,000
WOMAN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$500
WEST END SENIORS' NETWORK SOCIETYC$150
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$100
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$100
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 9 repeat orgsC$37k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$300

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+75%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$37k 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$1.0M · revenue +55%
  • AC
    ARTS CLUB THEATER COMPANY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$23k · revenue +39%
  • VS
    VANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$18k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • NS
    North Shore Schizophrenia Society
    one grant, 2017 · C$100 · revenue +24%
  • CP
    Canadian Parks and Wilderness Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$100 · revenue +252%
  • VH
    VANCOUVER HOSPICE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$100 · revenue +75%

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
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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2
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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3
Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society

Working towards building a new concert hall and theatre in vancouver.

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4
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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5
Vancouver Creative Space Society
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6
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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7
The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society

Vancouver international jazz festival year-round jazz concerts and related educational programs.

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8
Victoria Summer Music Festival Society

The Victoria Summer Music Festival (VSMF) brings local Canadian and international musicians to Victoria to perform high-calibre chamber music. In 2024 the VSMF presented five evening concerts and one afternoon concert during July and…

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9
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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10
Greater Vancouver Society to Bridge Arts and Community

BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre

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11
The Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver

Promotion and education of contemporary art through public lectures guest speakers artist studio tours and collectors' receptions in vancouver. webinar/zoom host artist talks and studio visits

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12
Vancouver New Music Society

Over the 2023-24 season vancouver new music presented many free community based events. these included community workshops public installations and online presentations. in addition the 2023-24 series included many paid concerts

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Hospice Society and the most unlike its peers is West End Seniors' Network 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

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 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$1,000,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTS CLUB THEATER COMPANY — C$22,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$17,553 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER OPERA ASSOCIATION — C$17,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION — C$8,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWoman's College Hospital Foundation — C$8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC IN THE MORNING CONCERT SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$4,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetH.R. MACMILLIAN SPACE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST END SENIORS' NETWORK SOCIETY — C$850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Schizophrenia Society — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Parks and Wilderness Society — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$100 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.

Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationVancouver FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…United Way British Co…Raymond James Canada …Alan and Gwendoline P…Ocean Wise Conservati…The Hamber FoundationAndre and Brock Rowla…Deux Mille Foundation
Vancity Community FoundationBC11.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Hamber Foundation · Andre and Brock Rowland Foundation · Deux Mille 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 17 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 811563154:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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