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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Gencon Foundation

Fund facilitate promote and carry out activities and programs to raise funds for donees that contribute to I) the promotion and advancement of social justice and equality; ii) the support and promotion of environmental sustainability; iii) the protection of wildlife; and iv) any other purposes that are beneficial to the community…

C$955k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$125k
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

  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$105k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$850k
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$125,000
RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$125,000
SIERRA CLUB OF BC FOUNDATIONC$100,000
LOON FOUNDATIONC$100,000
GALIAN CONSERVANCYC$100,000
EDUCATION WITHOUT BORDERSC$100,000
ECOJUSTICEC$100,000
ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEM ALLIANCEC$50,000
DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATIONC$50,000
WESTCOAST ENVIRONMENTALC$30,000
SUNSHINE COAST ARTS COUNCILC$30,000
PACIFIC ORCA SOCIETYC$30,000
COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$15,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.6M · 21 repeat orgsC$170k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

C$2.6M
C$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+33%

Still filing today

81%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100k 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

  • E
    ECOJUSTICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$325k · revenue +90%
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB OF BC FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$310k · revenue +68%
  • DS
    DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$290k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • AF
    ANCIENT FOREST ALLIANCE AFA
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k
  • FB
    FOOD BANKS BCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +604%
  • CA
    CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE ENVIROMENT
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +6%

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
Pacific Wild Alliance

1. save bc wolves - our goal is to ensure that wolves have adequate habitat to continue their critical role as a keystone species. 2. protect pacific herring - we are working with central coast communities to highlight the importance of…

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2
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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3
Pacific Wildlife Foundation
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4
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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5
Vancouver Foundation

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…

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6
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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7
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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8
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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9
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…

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10
Georgia Strait Alliance

Public Engagement – increasing the understanding of the importance of the health of Georgia Strait as a regional ecosystem and providing individuals and communities with the tools to take local and regional action to improve the health of…

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11
The Valhalla Wilderness Society

Coastal Temperate Rainforest-VWS was instrumental in the past in research and campaigns that saw large areas of the BC coast protected as conservancies. VWS continues to monitor park management and eco-system based logging as well as…

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12
T Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation

EDUCATE THE PUBLIC OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AS THE IMPORTANCE OF FISHERIES HABITAT CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC GROWTH AND FISHERIES HABITAT. Citizen science project empowering fish…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Education Without Borders 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

25 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. 25 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
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 budgetECOJUSTICE — C$325,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSIERRA CLUB OF BC FOUNDATION — C$310,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$290,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGALIAN CONSERVANCY — C$265,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$260,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetLOON FOUNDATION — C$211,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBC CONSERVATION ASSOC SUNSHINE COAST — C$125,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetENDANGERED ECOSYSTEM ALLIANCE — C$105,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetEDUCATION WITHOUT BORDERS — C$100,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetWEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW — C$100,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPACIFIC ORCA SOCIETY — C$90,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST ARTS COUNCIL — C$40,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetRAVEN — C$35,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetWISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER RECOVERY THROUGH ART — C$30,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetBRITANNIA SECONDARY SCHOOL STREET FRONT — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANCIENT FOREST ALLIANCE AFA — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBACK PACK BUDDIES — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD BANKS BC — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE ENVIROMENT — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR GROUP SERVICES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$2,500 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.

  • Who funds ECOJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB OF BC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GALIAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BC CONSERVATION ASSOC SUNSHINE COAST ↗
  • Who funds ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEM ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC ORCA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE COAST ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds RAVEN ↗
  • Who funds WISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER RECOVERY THROUGH ART ↗
  • Who funds BRITANNIA SECONDARY SCHOOL STREET FRONT ↗
  • Who funds ANCIENT FOREST ALLIANCE AFA ↗
  • Who funds BACK PACK BUDDIES ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANKS BC ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE ENVIROMENT ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR GROUP SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK ↗

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…The Sitka FoundationBc Government Employe…Vancouver FoundationCanada GivesMakeway FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Raymond James Canada …The McLean FoundationNorth Family Foundati…The Victoria Foundati…Zlc Foundation
Vancity Community FoundationBC12× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancouver Foundation · Canada Gives · Makeway Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The McLean Foundation · North Family Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Zlc 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 30 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 855253183:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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