Vancouver, BC · Private foundation
Gayla & John Dehart Family Foundation
Donating to qualified donees
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland | C$3,000 |
| The Sarah McLachlan School of Music Society | C$2,798 |
| Okanagan College Foundation | C$500 |
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.
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
- BSBig Sisters of BC Lower Mainland2× · 2017–2024 · C$5k · revenue +67%
- BCBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · C$4k · revenue +38%
- FFFORUM FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS2× · 2018–2020 · C$2k · revenue +290%
Funded once
- CHCROFTON HOUSE SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue +41%
- BSBIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLANDone grant, 2018 · C$1k
- WCWe Charityone grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue -98%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…
The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…
The bcit foundation raises funds to further the goals and objectives of british columbia institute of technology ('bcit') for the development and expansion of the education programs services capital projects and other initiatives as…
To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…
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…
The Foundation assists Camosun College to expand and enhance its educational programs or services not funded by government including financial aid to students at Camosun College. The Foundation provides an opportunity for individual…
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…
We fund scholarships bursaries and special grants to secondary and post secondary institutions and organizations in the province of bc but primarily in the greater victoria area.
Land for wildlife: make financial contributions to land acquisitions; wildsafebc: provides public awareness to reduce human/wildlife conflict; wildlife collision prevention program: provides public awareness to prevent wildlife/vehicle…
The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…
Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…
The trust fund for education awards scholarships and bursaries. the trust fund distributes its monies to universities colleges and other institutions in order to help students further their academic studies.
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 Crofton House School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland ↗
- Who funds BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROFTON HOUSE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FORUM FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS ↗
- Who funds We Charity ↗
- Who funds Okanagan College Foundation ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds The Vancouver BC SPCA ↗
- Who funds COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAUSE WE CARE ↗
- Who funds FEI & MILTON WONG FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA METRO VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds CANUCKS PLACE CHILDRENS HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds Care Canada ↗
- Who funds Power To Be ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation
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.