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Kaatza Foundation

It made donations to 'qualified donees'

C$275k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$70k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$105k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY SOCIETYC$50,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSEC$50,000
ST PAULS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
UBCC$20,000
NATURE TRUST OF BCC$15,000
VANCOUVER ART GALLERYC$15,000
YWCAC$10,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$10,000
BEAUTIFUL WORLDC$10,000
COWICHAN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICESC$7,500
THE STOPC$5,000
PATHWAYS CLUBHOUSEC$5,000
VANCOUVER SYMPHONY FOUNDATIONC$5,000
INDSPIREC$5,000
VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATIONC$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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.5M · 34 repeat orgsC$151k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
17

Total granted

C$1.5M
C$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+67%

Still filing today

94%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$30k 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

  • U
    UBC
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$250k · revenue +55%
  • NT
    NATURE TRUST OF BC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$196k · revenue +452%
  • BC
    BC CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$160k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue +101%
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS AMBULANCE
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +4%
  • IW
    ISHTAR WOMEN'S RESOURCE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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11
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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12
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is The Equality Effect. 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

50 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. 50 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
42/50
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 budgetUBC — C$250,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATURE TRUST OF BC — C$196,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA — C$85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY SOCIETY — C$70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — C$70,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUTIFUL WORLD — C$45,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARING AND SPEECH CENTRE — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBC ALBERTA GUIDE DOGS — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$34,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA SCORES — C$30,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBill Reid Foundation — C$27,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEQUALITY EFFECT — C$25,600 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetARTS CLUB THEATRE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH ARTS SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMartin Aboriginal Education Initiative — C$25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE STOP — C$23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOWICHAN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCowichan Community Land Trust — C$12,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetST JOHNS AMBULANCE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC IN THE MORNING — C$10,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COWICHAN FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERNA J KIRKNESS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION BC DIVISION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFirefighters Burn Fund — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK HEALTH ALLIANCE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REFUGE SOCIAL MINISTRIES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODGREEN COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE OF TORONTO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIE OSSINGTON NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAVENPORT PERTH NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKDALE FOOD BANK — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBC FOREST MUSEUM — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAROUSEL THEATRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSISTERING A WOMEN'S PLACE — C$5,000 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.

  • Who funds UBC ↗
  • Who funds NATURE TRUST OF BC ↗
  • Who funds BC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YWCA ↗
  • Who funds FIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds BEAUTIFUL WORLD ↗
  • Who funds INDSPIRE ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEARING AND SPEECH CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds BC ALBERTA GUIDE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds CANADA SCORES ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Bill Reid Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY EFFECT ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CLUB THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH ARTS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative ↗
  • Who funds THE STOP ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds COWICHAN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Cowichan Community Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHNS AMBULANCE ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC IN THE MORNING ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COWICHAN FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VERNA J KIRKNESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION BC DIVISION ↗
  • Who funds Firefighters Burn Fund ↗

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…Nicola Wealth Private…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Canada GivesVancouver FoundationVancity Community Fou…Deux Mille FoundationZlc FoundationThe McLean FoundationHeathcliff FoundationAndre and Brock Rowla…Peter & Joanne Brown …
United Way British ColumbiaBC12.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Canada Gives · Vancouver Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · Zlc Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Heathcliff Foundation · Andre and Brock Rowland Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown 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 55 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 2024-10-31, 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 140416249:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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