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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Larkspur Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to support other charitable organizations and initiate projects which contribute to the physical artistic and spiritual well-being of the local and global communities.

C$107k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k24 grants · C$47k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
C$1,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETYC$59,750
TURNING POINT RECOVERY FOUNDATIONC$8,000
VANCOUVER BOTANICAL GARDENS ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
BC AMATEUR SPORTS FUNDC$4,000
SPCA VANCOUVER HOSPITAL TRUST FUNDC$3,500
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$2,750
DUCKS UNLIMITED CANADAC$2,500
WESTERN CANADA WILDERNESS COMMITTEEC$2,000
THE NATURE TRUST OF BCC$2,000
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION(BACKPACK BUDDIES)C$2,000
REGIONAL ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETYC$1,500
GREATER TORONTO FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$1,500
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39C$1,000
RATANAK INTERNATIONALC$1,000
VANCOUVER SYMPHONYC$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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$384k · 29 repeat orgsC$19k 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 -6% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
9

Total granted

C$384k
C$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-6%

Still filing today

90%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • AR
    AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$121k · revenue +64%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT RECOVERY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$15k · revenue +32%
  • BF
    BARNABAS FAMILY MINISTRIES
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$11k · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • KC
    KEATS CAMPS
    one grant, 2020 · C$6k
  • TA
    TAKE A HIKE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +159%
  • OO
    Order of St. John Pallative Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue -40%

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.

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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
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
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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4
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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5
Victoria Humane Society

The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…

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6
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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7
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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8
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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9
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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10
Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society

This is Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society's (VAMMR) first year of operations as a registered charity and is a global leader in marine mammal rescue research and rehabilitation. VAMMR responds to over 300 marine mammal…

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11
Vancouver Food Runners Society

At vancouver food runners our mission is to respond to the unfortunate disconnect between the fact that over 40% of all food produced is wasted or lost while one in nine household in british columbia are food insecure. oue aim is to…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change the World Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project Harvest - Proyecto Cosecha. 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

34 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. 34 of the 39 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
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 budgetAVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$121,250 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetTURNING POINT RECOVERY FOUNDATION — C$36,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetTURNING POINT RECOVERY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARNABAS FAMILY MINISTRIES — C$11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRATANAK INTERNATIONAL — C$10,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER BOTANICAL GARDENS ASSOCIATION — C$9,950 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission — C$9,730 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHarvest Project — C$8,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHUGGS CANADA — C$8,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetBC Women's Hospital & Health Centre Foundation — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BC — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA VANCOUVER HOSPITAL TRUST FUND — C$5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 — C$5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN CANADA WILDERNESS COMMITTEE — C$5,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION(BACKPACK BUDDIES) — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST PROJECT — C$5,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER TORONTO FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$4,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY — C$3,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PACIFIC THEATRE SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASCENTA FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetOrder of St. John Pallative Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGINE 1 DAY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetArts Club Theatre Company — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Sun Children's Fund Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKY HELPS THE HOMELESS — C$500 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationVancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Anako FoundationVancouver FoundationThe Hamber FoundationTelus Employees Chari…Raymond James Canada …Lohn FoundationBridges Family Memori…The Bruendl Foundation
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC15.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Anako Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Bridges Family Memorial Foundation · The Bruendl 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 2024-12-31, 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 829599505:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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