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North Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Gmr Foundation

Support encourage promote and foster the advancement of education the advancement of religion the relief of proverty and other charitable and philanthropic endeavours by disbursing funds to 'qualified donees'.

C$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
XPEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLC$5,500
LEARNING BUDDIES NETWORK OF THE LOWER MAINLAND SOCIETYC$5,000
WEST COAST TAP DANCE COLLECTIVEC$5,000
BC GOLF HOUSE SOCIETYC$5,000
BRITANNIA ELEMENTARY (VSB)C$5,000
VANCOUVER CANTATA SINGERSC$5,000
JACK & JILL PARENT PARTICIPATIONC$5,000
ROEDDE HOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETYC$5,000
KINDRED COMMUNITY FARM SANCTUARYC$5,000
OLD HASTINGS MILL STORE MUSEUMC$5,000
KOOTENAY-COLUMBIA DISCOVERY CENTRE SOCIETYC$5,000
LINDEN SINGERS OF VICTORIAC$5,000
MARPOLE MUSEUM HISTORICAL SOCIETYC$4,500
B C FEED THE KIDS FOUNDATIONC$4,000
VANCOUVER ORPHEUS MALE VOICE CHOIRC$4,000
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$563k · 40 repeat orgsC$115k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
21

Total granted

C$563k
C$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$24k 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

  • FR
    FRESH ROOTS
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$24k · revenue +20%
  • BA
    BC & ALBERTA GUIDE DOGS
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$24k · revenue +125%
  • VH
    VANCOUVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$24k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF PORT ALBERNI (MCLEAN MILL SOCIETY)
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k
  • FR
    FRASER RIVER DISCOVERY CENTRE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k
  • BC
    B C MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue -26% · 27% of their budget

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
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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3
Greater Vancouver Society to Bridge Arts and Community

BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre

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4
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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5
Vancouver Creative Space Society
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6
Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Society

Conducts a competition to award scholarship to bc youth studying music. provide educational workshops master classes and seminars to young musicians in british columbia.

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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
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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9
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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10
Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association

Together with the City of Vancouver Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association operates VanDusen Botanical Garden and Bloedel Conservatory. We provide education programming and research access to a Botanical Library Membership services…

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11
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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12
Movement Enterprises Society

Established in 2001 Movement Enterprise Society is a charitable non-profit society dance production creation and presentation platform in Vancouver BC. The Society is dedicated to producing innovative and accessible new works in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mt.Pleasant Family Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is The Dr R.E.M. Lee Hospital 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

65 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. 65 of the 68 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
40/65
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBC GOLF HOUSE SOCIETY — C$34,500 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST MARINE RESCUE SOCIETY — C$26,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetOLD HASTINGS MILL STORE MUSEUM — C$25,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetFRESH ROOTS — C$24,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBC & ALBERTA GUIDE DOGS — C$23,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVANCOUVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$23,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetENVORNMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE — C$23,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMARPOLE MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$23,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetBABY GO ROUND — C$22,500 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetROEDEE HOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — C$22,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetLEARNING BUDDIES NETWORK OF THE LOWER MAINLAND SOCIETY — C$20,700 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetXPEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — C$20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE NEIGHBOURHOUSE — C$17,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWEST COAST TAP DANCE COLLECTIVE — C$15,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetATHLETICS 4 KIDS — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILLIWACK MUSEUM & ARCHUIVES — C$14,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetB C FARM MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — C$14,200 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetVANCOUVER WOMEN'S MUSICAL SOCIETY — C$13,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetQUEST OUTREACH SOCIETY — C$13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES SOCIETY — C$12,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBACK PACK BUDDIES — C$10,900 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNT PLEASANT FAMILY CENTRE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetELIZABETH BAGSHAW SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRASER RIVER DISCOVERY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVANCOUVER CANTATA SINGERS — C$10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJACK & JILL PARENT PARTICIPATION — C$9,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetLINDEN SINGERS OF VICTORIA — C$8,800 over 2y, 14% of budgetVANCOUVER ORPHEUS MALE VOICE CHOIR — C$8,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSFU ATHLETICS AND RECREATION — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH VANCOUVER HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDECODA LITERARY FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE CRISIS SERVICES SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH SHORE KEEP WELL SOC — C$7,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetRIVER CITY SQUASH — C$6,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE GREATER VANCOUVER YMCA — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKOOTENAY-COLUMBIA DISCOVERY CENTRE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetB C MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetLONGHOUSE COUNCIL OF NATIVE MINISTRY — C$5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE DR R.E.M. LEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetKINDRED COMMUNITY FARM SANCTUARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSECOND STREET COMMUNITY SCHOOL — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHLANDS THERAPEUTIC RIDING SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSTROKE RECOVERY ASSOCIATION OF BC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTROKE RECOVERY OF BC — C$4,700 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJ D JEGACT SOC — C$4,600 over 1y, 83% 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.

Lohn FoundationThe Hamber FoundationVancity Community Fou…Chris-Spencer Foundat…Al Roadburg FoundationVancouver FoundationFace the World Founda…Nicola Wealth Private…Diamond FoundationClick-Contributing to…The Zacks Family Char…Deux Mille Foundation
Lohn FoundationBC21.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lohn Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Chris-Spencer Foundation · Al Roadburg Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Face the World Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Click-Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society · The Zacks Family Charitable 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 68 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 822186573:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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