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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Jack and Doris Brown Foundation

The foundation made grants for charitable purposes

C$275k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$250k
C$50,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$50,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$50,000
ST PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$50,000
VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUNDC$10,000
LADY MINTO HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMYC$5,000
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 13 repeat orgsC$55k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’24
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

  • BC
    BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$600k · revenue +38%
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$190k · revenue +108%
  • BC
    BC CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2024 · C$100k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    one grant, 2024 · C$50k · revenue 0%
  • VP
    VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · C$5k · revenue 0%

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
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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2
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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3
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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4
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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5
Sunny Hill Foundation for Children

To provide funding to sunny hill health centre for children (part of the bc children's hospital a program of provincial health services authority) for research equiment purchases education health promotion and program development.

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6
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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7
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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8
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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9
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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10
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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11
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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12
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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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 Saint James Music Academy. 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

15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$600,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$190,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLAN INTERNATION CANADA — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND — C$40,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLADY MINTO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION EYESIGHT — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Unicef Committee — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanDusen Botanical Garden-Bloedel Conservatory — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationAqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Zlc FoundationBC9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 15 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 870819182:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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