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Langley, BC · Private foundation

John Volken Foundation

Provision for funding to the john volken academy society and lift the children.

C$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$2.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$1k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$60k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$3.2M
C$30,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$145M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
John Volken Academy SocietyC$2,913,391
Lift the ChildrenC$260,000
Pathfinder Youth Centre SocietyC$30,000
Rick Hansen FoundationC$20,000
Korle-Bu NeuroscienceC$10,000
Odd Squad Productions SocietyC$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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$25M · 11 repeat orgsC$400k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
31

Total granted

C$25M
C$400k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • JV
    JOHN VOLKEN ACADEMY SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$22M · revenue +58% · 87% of their budget
  • LT
    LIFT THE CHILDREN
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.9M · revenue +20% · 78% of their budget
  • SF
    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2023 · C$300k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • MR
    M2.W2 RESTORATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue -33%
  • PL
    PEARL LIFE RENEWAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue -50%
  • CC
    CULTIVATE CANADA SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue +38%

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
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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3
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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4
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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5
Sea to Sky Community Services Society

The Society offers more then 42 programs in the Sea to Sky Corridor supported by various funding sources including individual donors foundations and government partners. Adult and Family Services provides clinical and therapeutic care for…

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6
Vancouver Rape Relief Society

The society operates programs aimed to end violence against women and to act as an educational force for progressive changes in attitudes laws institutional procedures and to work for the prevention of rape. vancouver rape relief society…

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7
Vancouver Island Mental Health Society

Gateway house- a 10 bed fully staffed and licenced facility. it offers a therapeautic integrative and empowering life skills program. kc house brewster house and bob currie place provide smi-independent living housing and programs boundary…

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8
Pacific Community Resources Society

The society operates alternative schools alcohol and drug counseling and prevention programs needle exchange program youth centres employment programs training for youth education assistance programs pathways to education program…

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9
Surrey Women's Centre Society

Offers a range of low barrier drop in resources including crisis court counselling advocacy and health services for individuals who have experienced gender-based violence. Accompaniment to hospital police and court. Specialized co-location…

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10
Pacifica Treatment Centre Society

Rehabilitation programs - the society owns and operates the residence and designs rehabilitation programs to help promote recovery from substance dependence.

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11
Tantalus Wellspring Society

Tantalus Wellspring Society is a Squamish-based Not-for-Profit organization striving to facilitate affordable therapeutic services to individuals couples and families to bridge gaps and remove barriers by: (1) Engaging practitioners to…

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12
Richmond Mental Health Consumer & Friends Society

Peer Support Program (PSP) We provide one-to-one support and encouragement to Richmond-based mental health consumers who are recovering from a mental illness and receiving mental health services. Peer Support Social Group (PSSG) The PSSG…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sidebyside Children's Village Society and the most unlike its peers is Peace Officers Memorial Ribbon 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

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 42 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOHN VOLKEN ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$22,116,616 over 8y, 87% of budgetLIFT THE CHILDREN — C$1,908,273 over 8y, 78% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKORLE-BU FOUNDATION — C$95,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPathfinder Youth Centre Society — C$65,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CENTRE FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOWER MAINLAND — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRick Hansen Foundation — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetODD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY — C$31,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetWAGNER HILLS FARM SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetM2.W2 RESTORATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPEARL LIFE RENEWAL SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCULTIVATE CANADA SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIXON TRANSITION SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA) SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGURU NANK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNIGHTSHIFT STREET MINISTRIES SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOVING FORWARD FAMILY SERVICES — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMERCY MULTIPLIED CANADA SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY GATEWAY OF HOPE — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMYOTRIPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATIRA WOMEN'S RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCKNW KIDS' FUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPEACE ARCH HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF B.C. LOWER MAINLAND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SUR-DEL EASY DOES IT CLUB SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetESQUIMALT NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DALAI LAMA CENTER FOR PEACE AND EDUCATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL RIBBON SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetAVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKIDS PLAY YOUTH FOUNDATION — C$5,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CARDUS INSTITUTE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$5,000 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.

United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…First West FoundationBc Government Employe…Surrey Fire Fighters …Surreycares Community…Nicola Wealth Private…Ocean Wise Conservati…Vancouver FoundationThe Hamber FoundationOcean Park FoundationRotary Club of Semiah…
United Way British ColumbiaBC16.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · First West Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society · Surreycares Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Vancouver Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Ocean Park Foundation · Rotary Club of Semiahmoo (White Rock) B.C. Canada Charitable Trust

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 42 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 868208893:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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