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Burnaby, BC · Public foundation

Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation

Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation is an independent charity that supports Metro Vancouver Regional Parks.

C$352k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$156k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$46k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$99k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$207k
C$7,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Metro Vancouver Regional DistrictC$156,142
CTS Youth SocietyC$50,377
Pacific Spirit Park SocietyC$38,494
Make Way Charitable FoundationC$30,000
Vancouver Avian Reasearch CentreC$10,756
Birds CanadaC$10,000
Recreational Aircraft Association Chapter 85C$10,000
School District 36C$7,845
School District 39C$7,500
Kanaka Education Environment SocietyC$7,115
School District 41C$7,000
School District 40C$5,500
School District 42C$2,117
School District 38C$1,600
Nature KidsC$1,500
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 88% of grant dollars (C$965k). The 12% that went abroad (C$137k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 12% of all-years giving (C$137k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$954k · 21 repeat orgsC$147k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
16

Total granted

C$954k
C$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+13%

Still filing today

86%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$51k 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

  • CY
    CTS Youth Society
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$252k · revenue +11% · 36% of their budget
  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT 39
    4× · 2019–2024 · C$28k · revenue +19%
  • VA
    Vancouver Avian Reasearch Centre
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$25k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • DR
    Derby Reach and Brae Island Park Association
    one grant, 2023 · C$26k
  • CW
    CANADA WILD ARTS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$21k · revenue -52% · 26% of their budget
  • DU
    DUCKS UNLIMITED CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +92%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
The Board of Education of School District No. 48 (Sea to Sky)
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2
The Board of Education of School District No. 34 (Abbotsford)
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3
The Board of Education of School District No. 44 (North Vancouver)

Delivery of provincial education curriculum for grades k through 12 in elementary and secondary schools located within the north vancouver school district and the cheakamus centre for environmental education.

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4
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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5
Federation of British Columbia Naturalists

Operating under the name BC Nature The Federation of British Columbia Naturalists is the umbrella organization supporting over 53 local natural history organizations located throughout British Columbia. Ongoing programs include: i)…

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6
South Fraser Regional Science Fair (Sfrsf)
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7
The Board of Education of School District No. 45 (West Vancouver)

Scholarships bursaries awards.

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8
The Nature Trust of British Columbia

The Nature Trust of British Columbia acquires land through purchase and donation for the purpose of conserving natural habitat. The Trust also actively manages the land through habitat restoration and conservation projects. Much of our…

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9
The Board of Education of School District No. 62 (Sooke)

School District No. 62 (Sooke) provides educational programs within the boundaries of the District in accordance with the British Columbia School Act.

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10
The Board of Education of School District No. 79 (Cowichan Valley)

School board

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11
The Board of Education of School District No. 78 (Fraser-Cascade)

To provide educational programs for students enrolled in schools in the district including to provide post-secondary scholarships and bursaries to graduating students and enhancing the learning environment of the school district.

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12
Fresh Air Learning Society Vancouver

Forest And Farm Education Programs For 3-12 Year Olds. Professional Developments For Teachers. Adult And Teen Programs To Develop Their Connection To The Land Forest And Farm

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver) and the most unlike its peers is Forest and the Femme Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 44 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
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 budgetCTS Youth Society — C$252,328 over 4y, 36% of budgetMake Way Charitable Foundation — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 39 — C$28,395 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Avian Reasearch Centre — C$24,666 over 3y, 13% of budgetCANADA WILD ARTS SOCIETY — C$21,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetFraser Valley Conservancy — C$20,300 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSchool District 36 — C$19,237 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSchool District 41 — C$14,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBirds Canada — C$10,995 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLONY FARM PARK ASSOCIATION — C$10,550 over 3y, 41% of budgetStream of Dreams Mural Society — C$10,515 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetDUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool District 40 — C$8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Naturalists Society — C$6,500 over 2y, 42% of budgetBURKE MOUNTAIN NATURALISTS SOCIETY — C$5,609 over 1y, 32% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 37 — C$5,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSchool District 42 — C$5,117 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSchool District 38 — C$3,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSchool District 35 — C$3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Rocha Canada — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTake a Hike Foundation — C$2,730 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBritish Columbia Institute of Technology — C$2,423 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool District 43 — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH GRANVILLE SENIORS FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNature Kids — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Land Conservancy of BC — C$1,260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Community Resources Society — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST AND THE FEMME SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMulticultural Helping House Society — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShare Family and Community Services — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChabad of Richmond — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLangara College — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLangara College Foundation — 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.

United Way British Co…Construction Foundati…Vancity Community Fou…Td Friends of the Env…The Art Starts in Sch…Vancouver Sun Childre…Vancouver FoundationIndigo Love of Readin…Sedin Family Foundati…First West FoundationBuddhist Compassion R…Greater Vancouver Foo…
United Way British ColumbiaBC13.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) Society · Vancity Community Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The Art Starts in Schools Society · Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society · Vancouver Foundation · Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · Sedin Family Foundation · First West Foundation · Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation of Canada · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

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 44 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 2024-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 889353017:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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