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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundation

It made donations to 'qualified donees'

C$206k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$21k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$135k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vancouver OperaC$50,000
National Gallery of Canada FoundationC$25,000
Create Change FoundationC$25,000
BC Photography & Media Arts SocietyC$25,000
Vancouver Art GalleryC$20,000
Parish of St BarnabasC$15,000
Ballet BCC$15,000
Museum of Contemporary Art TorontoC$10,000
Griffin Art ProjectsC$5,000
ACIAC Art Canada InstituteC$5,000
Arts UmbrellaC$5,000
Parish of St Mary's KerrisdaleC$2,500
Christ Church CathedralC$1,500
BC Childrens HospitalC$1,000
Chor LeoniC$600
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 35 repeat orgsC$175k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
36

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$69k 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

  • VO
    Vancouver Opera Association
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$432k · revenue +2%
  • U
    UBC
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$400k · revenue +55%
  • VA
    Vancouver Art Gallery
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$259k · revenue +100% · 55% of their budget

Funded once

  • AA
    Audain Art Museum
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k
  • GF
    GRIFFIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k
  • SG
    SPARK GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$6k · revenue -100%

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
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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2
Vancouver Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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3
Victoria Visual Arts Legacy Society

Arts scholarships

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4
The Vancouver Art Gallery Association

The vancouver art gallery is a public art museum that showcases primarily contemporary works by bc canadian and international artists. as in prior years the gallery presents both touring exhibitions as well as exhibitions focused on the…

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5
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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6
Langara College Foundation

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

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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
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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9
Vancouver Opera Endowment Trust Fund

Assisting organizations whose purpose is the development and production of opera in bc or elsewhere in canada.

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10
Yvr Art Foundation

Providing art scholarships and exhibition opportunities for bc and yukon first nations emerging and mid-career artists - providing museum travel grants to bc and yukon first nations artists - providing awards to bc and yukon first nations…

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11
Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society

Working towards building a new concert hall and theatre in vancouver.

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12
The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia

Scholarships bursaries awards to support education and research in architecture.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ch.I.L.D. 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

72 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. 72 of the 77 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
45/72
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 budgetVancouver Opera Association — C$431,776 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetUBC — C$400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Art Gallery — C$259,000 over 8y, 55% of budgetEmily Carr University — C$205,000 over 3y, 99% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetParish of St Barnabas — C$99,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetBallet BC — C$84,350 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCreate Change Foundation — C$70,300 over 4y, 27% of budgetThe BC Photography and Media Arts Society — C$68,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVancouver Opera — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNational Gallery of Canada Foundation — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGlobal Civic Policy Society — C$25,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY FOUNDATION — C$23,850 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCoast Mental Health Foundation — C$23,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetArts Umbrella Association — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art Toronto — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGriffin Art Projects Society — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGORDON & MARION SMITH FONDATION FOR YOUNG ARTISTS — C$8,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH THEATRE SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTORY STUDIO WRITING SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetSPARK GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChor Leoni — C$5,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Front Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetACIAC Art Canada Institute — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetECOJUSTICE — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRise Asset Development — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Ecological Reserves (Elphinstone) — C$4,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT DANCE PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY — C$3,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWEST POINT GREY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Choral Arts Society — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBILL REID FOUNDATION — C$2,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetParish of St Mary's Kerrisdale — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVancouver Association for Photographic Arts — C$2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE COAST ARTS COUNCIL — C$2,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMajengo Foundation — C$1,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGoh Ballet Vancouver Society — C$1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChrist Church Cathedral — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdam's Apple Foundation — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Society for Early Music — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAG CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY — C$1,100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationFreybe FoundationAudain FoundationPeter & Joanne Brown …Nicola Wealth Private…The Christopher Found…The Hamber FoundationDeux Mille FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…Vancouver FoundationAlan and Gwendoline P…John C. Kerr Family F…
Zlc FoundationBC21.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Freybe Foundation · Audain Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation · John C. Kerr 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 77 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 839299161:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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