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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation

To fund and promote programs which are beneficial to the community as a whole in a way the laws regard as charitable.

C$249k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k23 grants · C$85k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$164k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$40,000
AUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLSC$25,000
AUNT LEAH'S PLACEC$25,000
AUNT LEAH'S - MGTE FOR THRESHOLDS HOUSEC$14,100
JOHN H MITCHELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPC$10,000
BC & ALBERTA GUIDE DOGS SERVICESC$10,000
BC & ALBERTA GUIDE DOGS SERVICESC$10,000
JOHN H MITCHELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPC$10,000
PACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETYC$10,000
PACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETYC$10,000
AFTER STROKEC$5,000
PACIFICIA TREATMENT CENTREC$5,000
MISSION TO SEAFARERS (EVM BEQUEST #4 OF 5)C$5,000
MARPOLE MUSEUM (EVM BEQUEST #4 OF 7)C$5,000
LUMARA GRIEF & BERAVEMENT CENTREC$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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$902k · 31 repeat orgsC$277k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
22

Total granted

C$902k
C$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+13%

Still filing today

97%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$108k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • AL
    AUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$271k · revenue +100%
  • PA
    Pacific Assistance Dogs
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$85k · revenue +72%
  • JH
    JOHN H MITCHELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$80k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEST COAST RAILWAY - NOTE FORGIVENESS
    one grant, 2023 · C$65k
  • CH
    CHARLFORD HOUSE SOCIETY FOR WOMAN (FOREVER HOM
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +10%
  • CD
    Child Development Foundation of BC
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue -9%

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
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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2
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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3
Special Olympics British Columbia Society

Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…

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4
B.C. Family Hearing Resource Society

Provincial resource program that provides comprehensive services throughout bc to families with children with hearing loss. provides consultation and training to professionals working with children with hearing loss. provides services to…

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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
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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7
Variety - the Children's Charity of Bc

Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations. Variety funds renovations equipment…

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8
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Society Branch

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation services. The Centre investigates and evaluates the occurrence…

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9
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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10
Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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11
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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12
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Dream Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is Rock Creek Community Medical 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

66 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. 66 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
38/66
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 budgetAUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS — C$271,400 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetPacific Assistance Dogs — C$85,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetJOHN H MITCHELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP — C$80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBC Guide Dogs Service — C$72,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetST PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$43,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST COAST RAILWAY — C$40,000 over 4y, 77% of budgetHope Air — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS — C$27,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGreater Vancouver Community Service — C$26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARING AND SPEECH CENTRE — C$25,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLFORD HOUSE SOCIETY FOR WOMAN (FOREVER HOM — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$25,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMISSION TO SEAFARERS — C$20,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAunt Leah's Independent Lifeskills — C$18,175 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S MTGE FOR THRESHOLDS HOUSE — C$17,600 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMARPOLE MUSEUM — C$17,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJOHN H MITCHELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP — C$16,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetDOWNS SYNDROM RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetScience World of BC — C$12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBC & ALBERTA GUIDE DOGS SERVICES — C$11,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetChild Development Foundation of BC — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVANCOUVER CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBCSPSA — C$9,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSarah McLachlan School of Music — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVancouver Chamber Choir — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARING AND SPEECH CENTRE — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBULLYING CANADA — C$7,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDECODA LITERACY FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCanuck Place — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLACE 'EM UP FOUNDATION FOR KIDS — C$5,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetKids Helpline — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISH DROP-IN CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarpole United Church — C$5,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCRISIS PREVENTION INTERVENTION AND INFORMATIO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFTER STROKE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISMBC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCottage Hospice (Bloom Society) — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDR REM LEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SHARING FAM — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFICIA TREATMENT CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSalvation Army — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBC HOCKEY HALL OF FAME — C$4,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

Lohn FoundationThe Hamber FoundationZlc FoundationVancity Community Fou…Y.P.Heung FoundationThe Zacks Family Char…Chris-Spencer Foundat…Cknw Kids' FundOcean Wise Conservati…Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Beedie Foundation
Lohn FoundationBC26.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lohn Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · The Zacks Family Charitable Foundation · Chris-Spencer Foundation · Cknw Kids' Fund · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Beedie 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 67 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 2024-04-30, 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 118974989:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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