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Freybe Foundation

The main charitable activity that the foundation carried our during the 2024 fiscal year was providing support to an art society.

C$485k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$386k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$30k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$386k
C$1,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRIFFIN ART PROJECTS SOCIETYC$386,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATIONC$50,000
THE BRITISH COLUMBIA PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ART SOCIETYC$20,000
PENTICTON ART GALLERYC$10,000
VANCOUVER OPERA FOUNDATIONC$5,000
VANCOUVER ART GALLERYC$2,000
PEN CANADAC$2,000
GREATE CHANGE FOUNDATIONC$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$1,000
VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTC$1,000
TORONTO PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKSHOPC$1,000
EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVERC$1,000
CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERYC$1,000
ABORIGIONAL MOTHER CENTRE SOCIETYC$1,000
WESTERN FRONT FOUNDATIONC$500
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.5M · 26 repeat orgsC$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
5

Total granted

C$3.5M
C$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$11k 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

  • GA
    GRIFFIN ART PROJECTS
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +26% · 83% of their budget
  • TB
    THE BRITISH COLUMBIA PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ARTS SOCIETY (THE
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$785k · revenue +54%
  • VO
    VANCOUVER OPERA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$75k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • LG
    LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +4%
  • TC
    THE CANADIAN ART FOUNDTION
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue -97%
  • NG
    NATIONAL GALERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k

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.

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The Vancouver Art Gallery Association

The vancouver art gallery is a public art museum that showcases primarily contemporary works by bc canadian and international artists. as in prior years the gallery presents both touring exhibitions as well as exhibitions focused on the…

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2
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

We are a public art gallery showcasing exhibitions from Canadian contemporary and historical artists international artists and a world-class Asian collection. We house and maintain the largest collection of visual arts in public trust in…

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3
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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4
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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5
Victoria Visual Arts Legacy Society

Arts scholarships

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6
Yvr Art Foundation

Providing art scholarships and exhibition opportunities for bc and yukon first nations emerging and mid-career artists - providing museum travel grants to bc and yukon first nations artists - providing awards to bc and yukon first nations…

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7
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Foundation

To hold contributed and donated funds for support of the art gallery of greater victoria. to advance the purposes of the art gallery of greater victoria by the provision of funds for the purchase of works of art and other assets and for…

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8
Vancouver International Open Spaces Sculpture Biennale

Staging a sculpture exhibition starting in october 2005 on public land through out vancouver parks and urban areas which promotes international and national sculptures. the exhibition increases the presence of art in the city of vancouver.…

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9
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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10
Vancouver Access Artist Run Centre

Access produces 3-5 exbitions per year and public programs which include artist talks publciations tours film screenings book launches performances temporary artist residencies community programs and shared community programming space.

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11
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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12
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Create Change Foundation. 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

32 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. 32 of the 33 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGRIFFIN ART PROJECTS — C$2,086,833 over 6y, 83% of budgetTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ARTS SOCIETY (THE — C$785,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$131,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BATEMAN FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetVANCOUVER OPERA FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetST MARKS LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$60,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION EYESIGHT CANADA — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPEN CANADA — C$27,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$22,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY — C$21,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetVANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ART — C$20,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetCAG CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY SOCIETY OF BC — C$18,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCREATE CHANGE FOUNDATION — C$17,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN FOUNDATION — C$15,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetABORIGINAL MOTHER CENTRE SOCIETY — C$14,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTORONTO PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKSHOP — C$11,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OPERA OF VANCOUVER SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPENTICTON ART GALLERY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GORDON AND MARION SMITH FOUNDATION FOR YOUNG — C$9,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA — C$6,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetWESTERN FRONT FOUNDATION — C$5,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE CANADIAN ART FOUNDTION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIT 306: SOCIETY FOR THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF THE ARTS — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET BC — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetATHLETICS FOR KIDS — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRASER INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$600 over 2y, 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.

Michael and Inna O'Br…Audain FoundationThe Hamber FoundationZlc FoundationVancouver FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Nicola Wealth Private…The Christopher Found…Deux Mille FoundationThe Pekarsky Family F…R & J Stern Family Fo…Martha Lou Henley Cha…
Michael and Inna O'Brian Family FoundationBC19.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundation · Audain Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · The Pekarsky Family Foundation · R & J Stern Family Foundation · Martha Lou Henley Charitable 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 33 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 836113977:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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