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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Heathcliff Foundation

Donated funds to other registered charities primarily in b.c.

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$241k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.6M · 24 repeat orgsC$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
21

Total granted

C$5.6M
C$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.0M 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

  • VS
    VANCOUVER SYMPHONY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$2.4M · revenue +159%
  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$800k · revenue +12%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$417k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • YH
    YORK HOUSE SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$450k · revenue -6% · 26% of their budget
  • VA
    VANCOUVER ART GALLERY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$250k · revenue +37%
  • SP
    ST. PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$250k · revenue -12%

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 Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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3
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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8
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

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

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9
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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10
Vancouver Opera Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to receive hold and invest bequests donations gifts funds and property and to administer and distribute funds property endowments trusts and financial programs for the funding and support of the programs…

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11
Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society

Working towards building a new concert hall and theatre in vancouver.

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12
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Power to Be Adventure Therapy 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

45 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. 45 of the 46 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
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 budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY FOUNDATION — C$2,425,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$800,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetYORK HOUSE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$450,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$417,420 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$365,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVSO SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY — C$275,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetST. PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$173,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetB.C. WOMEN'S HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTRE — C$150,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetLESTER B. PEARSON COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC AND UNITED WORLD — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$141,830 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$111,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetVANCOUVER YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY — C$108,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetBC Women's Hospital + Health Centre Foundation — C$95,300 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF B.C. — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$50,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetTHE CRESCENT BEACH SWIMMING CLUB — C$28,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetYORK HOUSE SCHOOL — C$27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHeart & Stroke Foundation of Canada — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR — C$13,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER AQUARIUM (OCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION) — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$5,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UKRANIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHOR LEONI MEN'S CHOIR — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARTS CLUB THEATRE COMPANY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS — C$5,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA SPORTS HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBritish Columbia Boys Choir — C$2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRAL CITY FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ottawa Hospital Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRASER INTITUTE — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Lower Mainland — C$151 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPower to be — C$66 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Zlc FoundationThe Christopher Found…Vancity Community Fou…Jewish Federation of …The Hamber FoundationDeux Mille FoundationVancouver FoundationDiamond FoundationAlan and Gwendoline P…Chan Family Foundation
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC17.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Zlc Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · The Hamber Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation · Chan Family 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 46 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 892950445:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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