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West Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Mindset Social Innovation Foundation

To educate the general public by conducting research into the maintenance and observance of human rights and to disseminate to educators and the general public the results of such research utilizing a variety of different media; to support organizations committed to develop build and scale social innovations for social impact; to…

C$584k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$204k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$105,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAINBOW RAILROADC$204,211
SARAH MCLACHLAN FOUNDATIONC$175,000
THE GIUSTRA FOUNDATIONC$105,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$50,000
CUSO INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$975k · 4 repeat orgsC$599k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

C$975k
C$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$330k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • RR
    RAINBOW RAILROAD
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$604k · revenue +84%
  • PB
    PAIN BC SOCIETY
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$200k · revenue +85%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$169k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • P
    PLUSEC
    one grant, 2022 · C$68k · revenue -90%
  • AR
    ANGUS REID INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +272%
  • RR
    RAINBOW REFUGEE
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +1%

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
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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2
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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3
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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4
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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5
The Stratas Foundation

Distributed (2) scholarships and/or private research grants to Canadian students and/or scholars at accredited universities or research centers in Canada. Each award was allocated toward a mental health research program intended to advance…

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6
The Fraser Institute

Carry out research on the following topics; Fiscal and Economic Policy Environmental Policy Energy & Natural Resources Policy Health Studies Economic Freedom publish books monographs & digital monographs on each topics. Hold conferences…

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7
Global Centre for Pluralism

The Global Centre for Pluralism is an independent charitable organization founded by His late Highness the Aga Khan IV and the Government of Canada. The Centre works with policy leaders educators and community builders around the world to…

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8
Columbia Foundation

Columbia foundation gifts qualified donees who carry out programs that invest in human and social capital for all canadians: 1. programs undertaken in education training and research and democracy 2. conducting innovative social research…

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9
Cascade Institute Research Society

Using advanced methods to map and model complex global systems we analyze interactions between systemic risks to anticipate future crises and identify opportunities for high-leverage interventions in social systems. By acting as a network…

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10
La fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau /the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

The foundation encourages research reflection and action in areas important to canadians. the foundation works through four programs: doctoral scholarships fellowships mentorships and public engagement events and conferences.

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11
The Canadian Foundation for Women's Health

To distribute funding to organizations and universities for research in the field of women's sexual reproductive health.

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12
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropic Foundations Canada/Fondations Philanthropiques Canada and the most unlike its peers is Angus Reid Institute. 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

17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
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 budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD — C$604,211 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetPAIN BC SOCIETY — C$200,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN FOUNDATION — C$175,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$169,360 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLUSEC (ICG) — C$67,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetANGUS REID INSTITUTE — C$50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCUSO INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAINBOW REFUGEE — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE STEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$20,880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget3858278 CANADA FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$1,300 over 2y, 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.

Djavad Mowafaghian Fo…Conam Charitable Foun…Vancouver FoundationVancity Community Fou…Timothy A. Young Fami…The Giustra FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Lohn FoundationCanada GivesTelus Employees Chari…Aqueduct FoundationUnited Way British Co…
Djavad Mowafaghian FoundationBC9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Timothy A. Young Family Foundation · The Giustra Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Canada Gives · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way British Columbia

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 17 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under educational orgs n.e.c..

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 864635438:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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