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Surrey, BC · Private foundation

Lending a Hand Society

LENDING A HAND SOCIETY was formed to raise money for other charities and programs which provide services for low-income and under-privileged children in british columbia.

C$99k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$84k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$15k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$84k
C$2,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$476k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YO BRO YO GIRL YOUTH INITIATIVE SOCIETYC$84,209
PENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$3,000
LANGLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH AND HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$2,500
CENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$2,500
MAMAS FOR MAMASC$2,500
CLOVERDALE RODEO YOUTH INITIATIVE FOUNDATIONC$2,000
BACKPACK BUDDIESC$1,500
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$512
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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$135k · 6 repeat orgsC$314k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
19

Total granted

C$135k
C$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$96k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • LF
    LMH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$105k · revenue +12%
  • LS
    LANGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$17k · revenue +35%
  • BC
    BC CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · C$3k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • BC
    BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$170k · revenue +17%
  • BS
    BIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLANDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$12k · revenue +162%
  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +34%

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
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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3
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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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
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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6
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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7
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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8
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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9
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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10
United Way British Columbia

Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province. We support healthy caring and inclusive communities by strengthening vital connections to help ensure the health…

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11
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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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 British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cloverdale Rodeo Youth Initiative Foundation. 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

32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
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 budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$170,264 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLMH FOUNDATION — C$105,162 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetYO BRO YO GIRL YOUTH INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$84,209 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLANGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND — C$11,998 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE ARCH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BC — C$2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF BC — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIGHT SHIFT STREET MINISTRIES SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 36 — C$2,240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYRUS CENTRE MINISTRIES — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLOVERDALE RODEO YOUTH INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHELP YOUTH CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetURBAN NATIVE YOUTH ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITAS SUPPORTIVE CARE SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATHLETICS FOR KIDS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (B.C.) SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED FOX HEALTHY LIVING SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRA CARES FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEACH FOR CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$1 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.

Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Zlc FoundationVancouver FoundationFirst West FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…The Western Communiti…Raymond James Canada …Wesmont FoundationSurreycares Community…Nicola Wealth Private…Centra Cares Foundati…
Vancity Community FoundationBC12.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Zlc Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · First West Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Western Communities Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Wesmont Foundation · Surreycares Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Centra Cares 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 32 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 2024-08-31, 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 746666924:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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