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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Jack and Sylvia Gin Foundation

Jack and sylvia gin formed the Jack and Sylvia Gin Foundation (jsgf) to give back to the community in perpetuity.

C$427k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$22k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$155k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$250k
C$10,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVERC$150,000
ROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
WESTSIDE CHURCH VANCOUVERC$40,000
VILLA CATHAY CARE HOME SOCIETYC$25,000
THE HILL 70 MEMORIALC$20,000
VANCOUVER ASIAN CANADIAN THEATREC$10,000
THE ORILLIA MUSUM OF ART AND HISTORYC$10,000
SEEDS OF HOPE CHILDRENS MINISTRYC$10,000
VANCOUVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITYC$10,000
TAKE A HIKE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
RATANAK INTERNATIONALC$10,000
THE SAMARITAN'S PURSE-CANADAC$5,000
THE CHINESE CANADIAN MILITARY MUSEUM SOCIETYC$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN CARE MUSEUMC$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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.4M · 19 repeat orgsC$307k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
15

Total granted

C$3.4M
C$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+45%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$56k 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

  • RC
    ROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$845k · revenue +141%
  • WC
    WILLINGDON CHURCH
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$378k · revenue +8%
  • TV
    THE VANCOUVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$372k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • BC
    British Columbia Football Hall of Famegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +85%
  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +83%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF STEVESTON-RICHMOND CHARITABLE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue -11%

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
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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2
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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3
British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum

About the bc sports hall of fame the bc sports hall of fame celebrates extraordinary achievement in bc sport history and inspires future generations to make their dreams come true. each year a diverse audience of over 35 000 visitors from…

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4
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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5
Trinity Western University

Founded in 1962 Trinity Western University is a global Christian liberal arts university. We are dedicated to equipping students to discover meaningful connections between career life and the needs of the world. Drawing upon the riches of…

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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
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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8
British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation

The bcit foundation raises funds to further the goals and objectives of british columbia institute of technology ('bcit') for the development and expansion of the education programs services capital projects and other initiatives as…

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9
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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10
British Columbia Forest Museum

1. preserve conserve and maintain and operate in consultation with the province of british columbia and the community the collections of historical objects at its facility in the cowichan valley as a memorial to the pioneers of the forest…

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sim Canada and the most unlike its peers is Villa Cathay Care Home 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

39 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
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 budgetROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$844,953 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetWILLINGDON CHURCH — C$378,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — C$372,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$350,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$300,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVILLA CATHAY CARE HOME SOCIETY — C$220,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRATANAK INTERNATIONAL — C$189,340 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetTHE HILL 70 MEMORIAL — C$180,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE, CHILDRENS MINISTRY — C$126,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BIBLE LEAGUE OF CANADA — C$122,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMULTIPLY NETWORK — C$57,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCHINESE CANADIAN MILITARY MUSEUM SOCIETY — C$51,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE CANADA — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE CHURCH VANCOUVER — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF STEVESTON-RICHMOND CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFEI & MILTON K WONG FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetVANCOUVER ASIAN CANADIAN THEATRE — C$20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN WAR MUSEUM — C$15,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetThe Great Commission Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIM CANADA — C$12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBURNABY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ORILLIA MUSUM OF ART AND HISTORY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCANUCKS AUTISM NETWORK SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHRIST CITY CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEVENOAKS ALLIANCE CHURCH — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKINGSTON CANADIAN FILM FESTIVAL — C$2,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKAMLOOPS FILM SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER YOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSASKATOON MUSEUM OF MILITARY ARTIFACTS — C$1,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetBristish Columbia Children's Hospital Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 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.

United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationGivewise Foundation C…Nicola Wealth Private…Christian Stewardship…Zlc FoundationVancity Community Fou…Abundance CanadaPrivate Giving Founda…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Charitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct Foundation
United Way British ColumbiaBC9.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Givewise Foundation Canada · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Christian Stewardship Services · Zlc Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Abundance Canada · Private Giving Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct 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 39 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 2024-07-31, 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 812290799:2024-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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