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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust

To receive and maintain fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the tax act

C$556k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k45 grants · C$84k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$90k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$382k
C$1,500
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$150,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
SIERRA CLUB OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FOUNDATIONC$72,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$60,000
CONG. SCHARA TZEDECKC$32,122
BC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$15,100
LOUIS BRIER JEWISH AGED FOUNDATIONC$13,000
BEN GURION UNIVERSITYC$10,000
THE CANADIAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION (CANTRA)C$10,000
PACIFIC RIDING FOR DEVELOPING ABILITIESC$10,000
VALLEY THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN ASSOCIATIONC$6,000
AUNT LEAH'S PLACEC$6,000
NCSY & TORAH HIGH VANCOUVERC$5,900
THE VANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTREC$5,360
BC CANCER 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.0M · 58 repeat orgsC$478k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
39

Total granted

C$3.0M
C$447k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+12%

Still filing today

97%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$31k 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

  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +115%
  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$534k · revenue +34%
  • CS
    CONG. SCHARA TZEDECK
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$180k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • BB
    BACKPACK BUDDIESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$65k · revenue +33%
  • KP
    KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue -26%
  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue -4%

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
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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3
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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4
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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5
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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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
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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8
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Home Care Foundation of Bc and the most unlike its peers is Unison Benevolent Fund. 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

101 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. 101 of the 103 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/101
Grantees still filing
70/101
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$1,143,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$533,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCONG. SCHARA TZEDECK — C$179,842 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND — C$121,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S PLACE — C$92,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetVancouver Talmud Torah — C$90,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER HEBREW ACADEMY — C$79,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSIERRA CLUB OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FOUNDATION — C$72,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES — C$65,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFOOD STASH FOUNDATION — C$51,303 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetLOUIS BRIER JEWISH AGED FOUNDATION — C$51,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetKIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$46,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — C$40,614 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$38,850 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$33,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE A HIKE YOUTH AT RISK FOUNDATION — C$33,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDRENS FUND SOC. — C$30,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTH AND HOME CARE SOCIETY OF BC — C$28,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE — C$28,090 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNCSY & TORAH HIGH VANCOUVER — C$26,700 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$26,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MACDONALD HOUSE — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB OF BC — C$25,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$23,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATION — C$20,250 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPENNY APPEAL CANADA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBATTERED WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC RIDING FOR DEVELOPING ABILITIES — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDRENS HOSPICE — C$19,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOKANAGAN JEWISH COMMUNITY — C$15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$14,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL BC SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION (CANTRA) — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBEN GURION UNIVERSITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HATIKVAH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$8,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LUMPHOMA SOCIETY — C$7,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA — C$7,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$7,200 over 7y, 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.

Zlc FoundationJewish Federation of …Lohn FoundationDiamond FoundationNicola Wealth Private…The Joseph Segal Fami…Al Roadburg FoundationPhyliss and Irving Sn…Vancity Community Fou…Ocean Wise Conservati…United Way British Co…The Dayhu Family Foun…
Zlc FoundationBC28.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Lohn Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation · Al Roadburg Foundation · Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · United Way British Columbia · The Dayhu Family 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 103 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 771240884:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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