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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Music Heals Charitable Foundation

To make distributions to qualified donees including qualified donees related to or in support of music therapy.

C$520k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$38k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k18 grants · C$89k
  • C$10k–50k25 grants · C$432k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$493k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$38,000
ST.PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVERC$28,000
WISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETYC$21,500
LOUIS BRIER JEWISH AGED FOUNDATIONC$21,500
SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMYC$21,500
CHARLFORD HOUSE SOCIETY FOR WOMENC$21,500
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDAC$21,500
CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICEC$21,500
THE RIDGE MEADOWS ASSOCIATION OF COC$20,000
YMCA BC FOUNDATIONC$19,750
DR.PETER AIDS FOUNDATIONC$16,500
THE SAMIAHMOO FOUNDATIONC$16,500
BROADWAY PENTECOSTAL CARE ASSOCIATIONC$16,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES CANADAC$16,500
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$15,750
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 · 48 repeat orgsC$179k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
15

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+40%

Still filing today

98%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22’23’24
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

  • BC
    BC Children's Hospital Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$137k · revenue +38%
  • WD
    WISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$87k · revenue +266%
  • CK
    Camp Kerry Society
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$85k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • HB
    Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$30k · revenue +40%
  • SO
    Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$18k · revenue +95%
  • CP
    Calgary PREP Centregraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$12k · revenue +71%

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
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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2
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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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
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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5
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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6
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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7
Health and Home Care Foundation of Bc

We solicit and promote the interests and objectives of health and home care society of british columbia; we provide financial support for the development and expansion of the programs carried out by the society.

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8
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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9
Squamish Hospital Foundation

Raising funds principally for capital and other needs of the health care institutions in the sea to sky community.

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10
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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11
Vancouver Island Health Authority

Island health plans and delivers health care services to the residents of vancouver island in the province of british columbia. health care services include but are not limited to acute care long-term care home support addictions mental…

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12
Bulkley Valley Health Care and Hospital Foundation

The Foundation works to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health organization and to promote the health of Bulkley Valley residents by gifting to qualified donees and by undertaking ancillary and incidental activities. During the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lions Gate Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Terrace Calvin Christian School Society. 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

69 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. 69 of the 72 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
53/69
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 budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$136,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$113,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$87,100 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCamp Kerry Society — C$85,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetSaint James Music Academy — C$85,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCHARLFORD HOUSE SOCIETY FOR WOMEN — C$71,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetVGH & UBC Hospital Foundation — C$70,180 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe North Vancouver Community Arts Council — C$68,250 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetST.PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$68,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$61,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOUIS BRIER JEWISH AGED FOUNDATION — C$61,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDR.PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$57,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Autism Family Centre Foundation — C$56,670 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetYMCA BC FOUNDATION — C$52,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBROADWAY PENTECOSTAL CARE ASSOCIATION — C$52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIDGE MEADOWS ASSOCIATION OF CO — C$52,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA BRIAN INJURY SOCIETY — C$46,687 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$44,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Semiahmoo Foundation — C$43,750 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES CANADA — C$43,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$38,030 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSurrey Hospital Foundation — C$38,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetComox Valley Healthcare Foundation — C$35,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetPhoenix Drug & Alcohol Recovery and Education Society — C$34,550 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPALS Autism Society ADULT PROGRAM — C$33,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHolland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEMIAHMOO HOUSE SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCanuck Place Children's Hospice — C$29,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Children's Family House Society of BC (Ronald Mcdonald H — C$28,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Heart of Hawthorne Foundation — C$25,628 over 2y, 67% of budgetWESTMINSTER HOUSE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPALS ADULTS SERVICES SOCIETY — C$24,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTerrace Calvin Christian School Society — C$21,750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE STROKE RECOVERY CENTER — C$20,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetKELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLittle Mountain Residential Care & Housing Society — C$19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSpirit of the North Healthcare Foundation — C$18,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetComox Valley Hospice Society — C$18,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT 041 — C$17,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$16,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIVE LIVING SOCIETY — C$16,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEC WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES — C$15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 83 — C$15,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER MAINLAND DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY — C$14,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetKootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Health — C$13,700 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLions Gate Hospital Foundation — C$13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarie Esther Society — C$13,187 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.

United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…The Hamber FoundationBc Government Employe…Y.P.Heung FoundationMr. and Mrs. P.A. Woo…Vancouver FoundationTELUS Friendly Future…Seedlings FoundationNicola Wealth Private…First West FoundationBeedie Foundation
United Way British ColumbiaBC17.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Y.P.Heung Foundation · Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woodward's Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Seedlings Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · First West Foundation · Beedie 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 72 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 846495489:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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