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Surrey, BC · Private foundation

Gary and Gail Grelish Foundation

The foundation received funds during the year and paid out to qualified donees to further the charitable purpose of the foundation.

C$106k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$2k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$104k
C$20,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SURREY FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$30,000
SOURCES FOUNDATIONC$20,000
CHILD DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONC$20,000
BLUE SEA FOUNDATION-COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEARC$18,765
KPU IGNITE SCHOLARSHIP GALA-SURREY FIRE FIGHTERS EVENT.C$15,000
LANGLEY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETYC$2,000
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$209k · 4 repeat orgsC$89k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

C$209k
C$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$17k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SF
    SURREY FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$105k · revenue +54%
  • CD
    CHILD DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$40k · revenue +31%
  • BS
    BLUE SEA FOUNDATION-COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$34k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • OC
    OPTIONS COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +28%
  • CD
    CHILD DEVELOP[MENT CENTRE SOPHIES PLACE
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +13%
  • KF
    KPU FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +26%

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 Police Union Charitable Foundation

Financial support for other non profit organizations providing programs for youth at risk. summer camp support for low income families. counseling referrals for children in abuse situations.

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2
Children's Service Fund Pacific Area

To help deprived children in the philippines

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3
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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4
Children's Health Foundation

Children's health foundation raises and grants funds to support specialized healthcare research and rehabilitation services and programs for infants children and youth

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5
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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6
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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7
Sunny Hill Foundation for Children

To provide funding to sunny hill health centre for children (part of the bc children's hospital a program of provincial health services authority) for research equiment purchases education health promotion and program development.

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8
South Peace Child Development Society

Pediatric rehabilitation for children with special needs. program includes physiotherapy and occupational therapy speech and language therapy supported child development programs integrated preschool program infant development program…

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9
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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10
Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society

Adopt-a-school: issues grants to programs run by qualified donees (i.e. schools boards community associations children's charities) aimed at ensuring food security provision of clothing and other necessities as well as for mentorship…

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11
Fraser Valley Child Development (1982) Society

For children from age of birth to 18 years: infant development family support servides supported child development physiotherapy occupational therapy speech-language pathology fetal alcohol services complex and autism assessment clinics…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Development Foundation of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSURREY FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$105,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetBLUE SEA FOUNDATION-COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR — C$33,765 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOURCES FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOPTIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD DEVELOP[MENT CENTRE SOPHIES PLACE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKPU FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLOVERDALE COMMUNITY KITCHEN — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKINDRED COMMUNITY FARM SANCTUARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLANGLEY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$2,000 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.

First West FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Surreycares Community…Vancouver FoundationSurrey Fire Fighters …Ocean Wise Conservati…The Western Communiti…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Bc Government Employe…Nicola Wealth Private…Charitable Gift Funds…
First West FoundationBC12.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First West Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Surreycares Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Western Communities Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 13 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 748998705:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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