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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Graham Lee Family Foundation

It made gifts to qualified donees.

C$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$2k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$75k
C$268
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The University of British ColumbiaC$75,000
BabyGoRound Helping Families SocietyC$938
Grizzly Bear FoundationC$268
YMCA BCC$268
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Coast BCC$134
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$584k · 3 repeat orgsC$3k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against -247% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

C$584k
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-247%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TU
    The University of British Columbia
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$225k · revenue +26%
  • MI
    MULGRAVE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$200k · revenue +22%
  • TU
    The University of British Columbia
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$159k · revenue -68%

Funded once

  • VN
    VICTORIA NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue -247%
  • DO
    DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER
    one grant, 2021 · C$500

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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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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2
Burnaby Children's Centres Society

The Burnaby Children's Centres Society provides Burnaby-based self sustaining range of inclusive quality group child care for children that are 3 months to 5 years of age. Currently they operate two daycare facilities owned by the City of…

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3
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Vancouver Island
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4
Ymca - Ywca of Vancouver Island

We are a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. We do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young adults; promoting healthy living; and fostering social responsibility. Our focus on inclusiveness…

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5
Ymca of Southern Interior Bc Association

We are a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. we do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young adults; promoting healthy living; and fostering social responsibility. our focus on inclusveness…

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6
Boys and Girls Club Services of Greater Victoria
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7
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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8
Alberni Valley Childcare Society

Alberni Valley Childcare Society provides childcare to the Alberni Valley. They operate three sites and programs for infants toddlers ages 3-5 and before/after school care

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9
Burnside Gorge Community Association

Burnside Gorge Community Association provides a wide range of programs and services for children youth families and seniors in the Greater Victoria area. Programming includes: Daycare for children 30 months to 5 years; before and after…

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10
Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland

Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…

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11
Comox Valley Children's Day Care Society

Tigger too aspen grove and lighthouse day care provide care and education for children from 30 months to 6 years of age.

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12
Sfu Childcare Society

The society's purpose is to establish maintain and promote quality childcare programs which seek to meet the individual needs of children and their families. the society operates 19 childcare programs at the burnaby mountain campus of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca Bc and the most unlike its peers is Mulgrave Independent School Society. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe University of British Columbia — C$225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMULGRAVE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe University of British Columbia — C$158,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBabyGoRound Helping Families Society — C$938 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA BC — C$268 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrizzly Bear Foundation — C$268 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of South Coast BC — C$134 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.

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.

Vancouver FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Aqueduct FoundationBc Government Employe…Zlc FoundationUnited Way British Co…First West FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…Vancity Community Fou…Raymond James Canada …BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…
Vancouver FoundationBC8.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancouver Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Zlc Foundation · United Way British Columbia · First West Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · BenefAction 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 9 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 2024-04-30, 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 847311784:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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