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Mathisen Family Private Foundation

In 2014 the Arpeg Group of Companies and its founding Mathisen business family undertook to formalize their rich history of philanthropic endeavours.

C$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$5k
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.

C$1,700
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UBC FACULTY OF ARTS - SCHOOL OF MUSIC (4 OF 5)C$5,000
AUNT LEAH'S PLACEC$3,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$2,900
MOM2MOMC$2,700
VANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS SOCIETYC$2,300
TAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$2,200
YWCA METRO VANCOUVERC$2,200
BC GUIDE DOGSC$2,000
COWICHAN WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE SOCIETY (CWAVS)C$2,000
OUR PLACE SOCIETYC$1,900
SAWHORSE REVOLUTIONC$1,900
HEADSUPGUYS.ORGC$1,800
FRESH TO FAMILIES PROGRAMC$1,700
BURNABY HOSPICE SOCIETYC$1,700
STANLEY PARK ECOLOGY SOCIETYC$1,700
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$397k · 40 repeat orgsC$197k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
69

Total granted

C$397k
C$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+22%

Still filing today

83%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k 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

  • UG
    Union Gospel Mission - Capital Campaign
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$108k · revenue +127%
  • U(
    UBC (School of Music)
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$22k · revenue +24%
  • SH
    Surrey Hospitals Foundation
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$16k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CB
    Crescent Beach Swimming Clubgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue +147%
  • BC
    BC Children's Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$8k · revenue +38%
  • RS
    Realwheels Societygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +65%

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
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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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
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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4
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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5
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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6
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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7
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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8
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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9
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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10
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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11
Special Olympics British Columbia Society

Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…

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12
Vancouver Creative Space Society
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Place Society and the most unlike its peers is One Way Club. 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

90 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. 90 of the 121 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/90
Grantees still filing
70/90
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 budgetUnion Gospel Mission - Capital Campaign — C$107,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUBC (School of Music) — C$21,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSurrey Hospitals Foundation — C$16,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEACH HOUSE THEATRE — C$15,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMOM2MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$14,521 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCanuck Place Children's Hospice — C$14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAunt Leah's Independent Lifeskills Society — C$14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOne Girl Can Society — C$14,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF THE BC LOWER MAINLAND — C$13,800 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$11,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrescent Beach Swimming Club — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVancouver Public Library Foundation — C$9,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGORDON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — C$8,964 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAL VANCOUVER — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVancouver Opera — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAutismBC — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA METRO VANCOUVER — C$6,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCPBF - Canadian Premature Babies Foundation — C$6,143 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRAL CITY FOUNDATION — C$5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR HOPE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — C$5,150 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPain BC Society — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRealwheels Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Writers' Exchange — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST. PAULS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUXILARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPlea Community Services Society of BC — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Wish Foundation of Canada (BC/Yukon) — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER POPPY FUND COMMITTEE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVANCOUVER NATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission Foundation — C$4,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTake a Hike Youth Mental Health Foundation — C$4,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBCCDC FOUNDATION FOR POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAthletics for Kids Financial Assistance (B.C.) Society — C$4,393 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND SYMPHONY — C$4,036 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Youth Orchestra of Canada — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMount Allison Students' Union — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lower Mainland Purpose Society for Youth and Families — C$3,214 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURNABY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$3,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMPOST EDUCATION CENTRE — C$3,036 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPacific Community Resources Society — C$3,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiver City Squash — C$3,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetHarvest Project — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPIONEER LIVING ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAltitude Project Community Support Foundation — C$3,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetArts Umbrella Association — C$3,000 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.

Lohn FoundationThe Hamber FoundationVancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Deux Mille FoundationY.P.Heung FoundationUnited Way British Co…Al Roadburg FoundationBc Government Employe…Seedlings FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…First West Foundation
Lohn FoundationBC28.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lohn Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Al Roadburg Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Seedlings Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · First West 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 121 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 800543233:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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