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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Great Expectations Foundation

Providing gifts to qualified donees

C$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$650k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THIRD SPACE FOUNDATIONC$6,000
TAKE A HIKE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$2,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$1,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$117k · 6 repeat orgsC$11k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

C$117k
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • CH
    CONVENANT HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$92k · revenue +81%
  • TS
    THIRD SPACE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$11k · revenue +9%
  • TA
    TAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$10k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAMAS FOR MAMAS
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue -56%
  • VA
    VISTA ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$2k · revenue +119%
  • RC
    REGENT COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue -25%

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
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

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…

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2
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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3
Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch

1) mental health program development & delivery-we help build mental health skills and resilience for individuals. this includes parent support employment services crisis lines youth programs and support groups. 2) mental health education…

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4
Victoria Humane Society

The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…

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5
Bc Cancer Foundation

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…

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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
Vancouver Rape Relief Society

The society operates programs aimed to end violence against women and to act as an educational force for progressive changes in attitudes laws institutional procedures and to work for the prevention of rape. vancouver rape relief society…

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8
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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9
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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10
The Psychology Foundation of Canada

We advance mental health with Canadian families by empowering them with coping mechanisms and the tools to thrive amidst life's challenges. We accomplish this by using psychological science to develop and deliver programs and resources to…

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11
Straight Outta Rescue Society

Straight Outta Rescue Society is a 100% volunteer-run rescue and registered charity based in Vancouver BC. We partner with loving foster homes to provide care for homeless and abandoned cats and dogs while working to match them with their…

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12
Cascade Institute Research Society

Using advanced methods to map and model complex global systems we analyze interactions between systemic risks to anticipate future crises and identify opportunities for high-leverage interventions in social systems. By acting as a network…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Royal Lepage Shelter Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Regent College. 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
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 budgetCONVENANT HOUSE — C$91,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD SPACE FOUNDATION — C$11,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISTA ACADEMY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL LAPAGE SHELTER FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREGENT COLLEGE — C$1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNICOLA WEALTH PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBSF International (Canada) Limited — C$900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROAM Reuniting Owners with Animals Missing Ltd — C$400 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCANUCKS AUTISM NETWORK SOCIETY — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Animal Foundation — C$200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKNOWLEDGE NETWORK — C$200 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.

Givewise Foundation C…Nicola Wealth Private…Aqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…BenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…Strategic Charitable …United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…
Givewise Foundation CanadaBC7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Givewise Foundation Canada · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 16 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 2024-10-31, 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 867750507:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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