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West Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Louis Family Foundation

The foundation operates as a private foundation making grants only to qualified grantees (as defined by the income tax act)

C$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$85k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$195k
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIONS GATE HOSPITALC$85,000
WRITERS EXCHANGEC$60,000
WINDMILL MICROLENDINGC$50,000
ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATIONC$25,000
SOCIAL VENTURES PARTNERSC$25,000
LEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETYC$15,000
AUNT LEAH'SC$10,000
VANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARDC$10,000
GROWING CHEFSC$5,000
FRESH ROOTSC$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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 14 repeat orgsC$276k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$120k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TW
    THE WRITER'S EXCHANGE
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$345k · revenue +29%
  • WM
    WINDMILL MICROLENDING
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$200k · revenue +198%
  • AF
    ADOPTIVE FAMALIES ASSOCIATION (ORCA FUND)
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$70k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • SV
    SVP VANCOUVER EARLY YEARS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · C$33k
  • OF
    ORCA FUND
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k
  • SV
    SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS VANCOUVER
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k

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
Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland

Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…

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2
Nutritionlink Services Society

Nutritionlink services society (nls) promotes and enhances eating choices for people and communities in british columbia. nls works in collaboration with others to enhance individuals' ability to make healthy food choices. nls supports the…

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3
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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4
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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5
Nstep

NSTEP provides hands-on nutrition and physical activity education to children teachers and families across Canada. We strive to promote positive change in the health of our communities through active learning. We are an education hub of…

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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
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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8
The Landing Youth Centre Foundation

The Landing Youth Centre is a community hub serving vulnerable youth and their families in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Grandview-Woodland neighborhoods. We provide all-round support programs and services to vulnerable youth and their…

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9
Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch

1) mental health program development & delivery-we help build mental health skills and resilience for individuals. this includes parent support employment services crisis lines youth programs and support groups. 2) mental health education…

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10
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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11
Story Studio Writing Society

Story Studio is an award-winning BC-based charity that inspires educates and empowers youth to be great storytellers transforming lives and strengthening communities. The charity supports the well-being of children youth and families…

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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 Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is Windmill Microlending / Le Moulin Microcrédits. 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

23 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. 23 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
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 budgetTHE WRITER'S EXCHANGE — C$345,200 over 7y, 10% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS VANCOUVER — C$260,666 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$200,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL — C$85,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADOPTIVE FAMALIES ASSOCIATION (ORCA FUND) — C$70,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH ROOTS — C$50,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGROWING CHEFS SOCIETY — C$31,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVictoria Hospice — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARTSTARTS — C$13,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MACDONALD HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoston Pizza Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYO BRO — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSAFE — C$8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEART AND STROKE 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.

Vancity Community Fou…B.C. Social Venture P…Png Enterprise Founda…TELUS Friendly Future…Nicola Wealth Private…Munford Family Founda…Lrj Charitable Founda…The Connor Clark & L…The Hamber FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationBlue Planet Links
Vancity Community FoundationBC11.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation · Png Enterprise Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Munford Family Foundation · Lrj Charitable Foundation · The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Blue Planet Links

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 29 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 793987488:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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