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Burnaby, BC · Charitable organization

Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy food to those in need.

C$419k
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$29k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k64 grants · C$294k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$125k
C$4,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lookout Housing and Health SocietyC$29,053
ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OFC$25,975
The Board of Education of School District No. 41 (BurnaC$25,000
ST. AIDAN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHC$12,000
Burnaby Neighbourhood House SocietyC$12,000
RAINCITY HOUSING AND SUPPORT SOCIETYC$11,364
PARISH OF ST. AUGUSTINEC$10,000
URBAN NATIVE YOUTH ASSOCIATIONC$8,000
ATIRA WOMEN S RESOURCE SOCIETYC$8,000
DOWNTOWN SOUTH GATHERING PLACE COMMUNITY CEC$7,956
HELPING SPIRIT LODGE SOCIETYC$7,593
SENIORS SERVICES SOCIETY OF BCC$7,500
ATIRA WOMEN'S RESOURCE SOCIETYC$7,410
The Salvation Army Boundless/Vancouver FamilyC$6,000
WESTCOAST BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONC$6,000
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 65 repeat orgsC$350k to everyone else

65 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
20

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$51k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 41 (BURNABY)
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$98k · revenue +10%
  • LH
    Lookout Housing and Health Society
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$70k · revenue +51%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$53k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$127k · revenue +16%
  • AO
    Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia
    one grant, 2022 · C$29k
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 44 (NORTH VANC
    one grant, 2021 · C$29k · 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
Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy food to those in need. The Society provides food support to approximately 16 000 children adults and seniors monthly through its…

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2
Network of Inner City Community Services Society

Home support services hub coordination and roving leaders families in action children youth seniors and family services vancouver rent bank settlement orientation services

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3
Options Community Services Society

Options community services offers programs in surrey delta cloverdale white rock and langley. the society's fraser health crisis line serves the entire fraser health region from tri-cites to boston bar. options provides programs in many…

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4
Northern John Howard Society of Bc

Homelessness prevention program homelessness partnering strategy program family violence prevention stop program northern john howard society rental housing.

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5
Sea to Sky Community Services Society

The Society offers more then 42 programs in the Sea to Sky Corridor supported by various funding sources including individual donors foundations and government partners. Adult and Family Services provides clinical and therapeutic care for…

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6
Sunset Housing Society

To provide low income housing to senior citizens of british columbia

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7
Affordable Housing: Vancouver Island Society
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8
The Victoria Cool Aid Society

The Society offers life-changing services to people who are impacted by poverty colonization stigma and homelessness. These services include permanent housing emergency shelter health and dental care employment assistance and social and…

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9
Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch

Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…

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10
Vancouver Island Mental Health Society

Gateway house- a 10 bed fully staffed and licenced facility. it offers a therapeautic integrative and empowering life skills program. kc house brewster house and bob currie place provide smi-independent living housing and programs boundary…

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11
Island Crisis Care Society

The society provides emergency shelter food and referrals for counseling and other services at multiple facilities in the mid-vancouver island region. supportive and transitional housing: samaritan place newcastle place orca place and…

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12
Sums Place Society

Assist people of central surrey to come together in community to meet their physical social and spiritual needs. supply meals-over 90 000 each year. provide clothing and personal items. provide shelter beds. make our building available to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is Capilano University. 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

136 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/136
Grantees still filing
106/136
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 budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER) — C$127,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 41 (BURNABY) — C$98,131 over 4y, 19% of budgetLookout Housing and Health Society — C$69,812 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF — C$52,747 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRAINCITY HOUSING AND SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$38,233 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetN S Neighbourhood House — C$34,321 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Native Youth Association — C$32,199 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBurnaby Neighbourhood House Society — C$32,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST. AIDAN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$32,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetThe Salvation Army Boundless/Vancouver Family Service — C$30,748 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 44 (NORTH VANC — C$28,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 40 (NEW WESTMI — C$28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATIRA WOMEN S RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$27,978 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity First Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPARISH OF ST. AUGUSTINE — C$24,156 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetPARISH OF ST. MICHAEL — C$22,010 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetDixon Transition Society — C$20,896 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER NATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY — C$20,373 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Second Mile Society — C$20,053 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFirst United Church — C$19,866 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTRATHCONA COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION (1972) — C$18,999 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN SOUTH GATHERING PLACE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$17,956 over 4y, 26% of budgetTHE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH — C$17,728 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER ABORIGINAL CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$16,277 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSET COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHouse of Omeed — C$16,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCITYREACH CARE SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LITTLE MOUNTAIN NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMission Possible — C$15,989 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCIETY — C$15,968 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGiving Back Support Recovery Society — C$15,739 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe KidSafe Project Society — C$15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJacobs Well — C$15,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$14,801 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$14,709 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDowntown Eastside Neigh. House — C$14,679 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetVancouver Urban Ministries — C$14,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPAL Vancouver — C$13,999 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetElizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver — C$13,991 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetS O S - STARTING OVER SOCIETY — C$13,855 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFraserside Community Services Society — C$12,537 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KETTLE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$12,486 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$11,830 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEC NATIVE EDUCATION COLLEGE — C$11,469 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Neighbourhood Church — C$11,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWESTCOAST BAPTIST ASSOCIATION — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKIWASSA NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$10,860 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFirst United Church Social Housing Society — C$10,135 over 3y, 0.2% 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.

Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Central City Foundati…Nicola Wealth Private…Ocean Wise Conservati…Face the World Founda…Food Banks British Co…The Hamber FoundationVancouver FoundationRight To FoodBc Government Employe…Al Roadburg Foundation
Vancity Community FoundationBC33.1× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Central City Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Face the World Foundation · Food Banks British Columbia · The Hamber Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Right To Food · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Al Roadburg 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 97 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 107449787:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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