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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

James Family Foundation

The foundation primarily makes grants to organizations that are 'qualified donees' as defined by the income tax act (canada) (the 'act') in two areas: programs for adults with learning disabilities and literacy programs for children.

C$7.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$113k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$392k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$6.6M
C$38,300
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONC$2,500,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,725,000
OUR PLACE SOCIETYC$1,050,000
STEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$293,333
AFRICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK BOX SOCIETYC$240,000
LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
CENTRE FOR ADD/ADHD AWARENESS CANADAC$52,416
MAJENGO CANADAC$38,300
ALPINE CANADAC$25,000
ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY VANCOUVER ISLANDC$20,000
EAGLE RIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,000
PEACE PORTAL ALLIANCE CHURCHC$10,000
FRIENDS FOR ZAMBIA SOCIETYC$1,800
MAKE-A-WISH CANADAC$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$20M · 20 repeat orgsC$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
20

Total granted

C$20M
C$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+32%

Still filing today

90%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$95k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$3.3M · revenue +12%
  • TC
    Tides Canada Foundation
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$3.0M · revenue +70% · 32% of their budget
  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • MC
    MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$500k · revenue +5%
  • CF
    CENTERE FOR ADD/ADHD AWARENESS CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$472k
  • BF
    BCIT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$250k · revenue +153%

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
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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3
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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4
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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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
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
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
Saanich Peninsula Community Foundation

The foundation maintains a permanent endowment fund (the majority of the fund is maintained at the victoria foundation and the vancouver foundation) and annually makes grants from the investment earnings of the endowment fund to charitable…

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10
Squamish Hospital Foundation

Raising funds principally for capital and other needs of the health care institutions in the sea to sky community.

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11
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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12
Victoria Heart Institute Foundation

The charity performed an assisted with research and trials in bc dealing with a range of cardiac care studies. the charity accepts grants donations and other funds to carry out the above.

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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 South Green Lake Volunteer Fire Department. 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

40 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. 40 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
26/40
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 budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$3,750,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,330,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTides Canada Foundation — C$3,000,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,512,685 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$1,500,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetOUR PLACE SOCIETY — C$1,425,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetAFRICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK BOX SOCIETY — C$1,047,000 over 6y, 93% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$1,000,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$875,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPrimary Schools for Africa Society — C$788,903 over 4y, 67% of budgetSAANICH PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$750,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBCIT FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMAJENGO CANADA — C$245,150 over 7y, 16% of budgetWAR CHILD CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBC CENTRE FOR ABILITY — C$89,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetTHE CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE CHILDREN OF HAITI — C$82,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSULLIVAN UROLOGY FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$51,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST. JUDE'S ANGLICAN HOME — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHIIYE'YU LELUM (HOUSE OF FRIENDSHP) — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDREN — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPEACE PORTAL ALLIANCE CHURCH — C$21,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWHISTLER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetEAGLE RIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY VANCOUVER ISLAND — C$20,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE MEL JR. & MARTY ZAJAC FOUNDATION — C$18,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS FOR ZAMBIA SOCIETY — C$16,800 over 4y, 12% of budgetWEST COAST RAILWAY ASSOCIATION — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYDNEY FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouth Green Lake Volunteer Fire Department — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VICTORIA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUMAINI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCanadian Harambee Education Society — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE RESOURCE WAREHOUSE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH CANADA — C$1,000 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.

The Victoria Foundati…Nicola Wealth Private…Anglican Synod of the…Raymond James Canada …Aqueduct FoundationSutherland Foundation…Bc Government Employe…BenefAction FoundationVancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Trev Deeley FoundationApril 1 Foundation
The Victoria FoundationBC12.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Sutherland Foundation Inc · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · BenefAction Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Trev Deeley Foundation · April 1 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 846574101:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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