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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

Mvzeif

Ongoing programs are focused on enabling climate action in the building sector and supporting equity through climate action.

C$277k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$158k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METRO VANCOUVER REGIONAL DISTRICTC$50,000
CHEAKAMUS FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNINGC$50,000
MITACSC$41,000
BCITC$35,000
ACADEMY FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONC$22,300
BC INDIGENOUS HOUSING SOCIETYC$20,000
HUB CYCLINGC$20,000
STARFISH FOUNDATIONC$10,000
GRIN GREEN ROOF INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK AND ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
THE ONLY ANIMAL THEATRE SOCIETYC$5,000
MAKE WAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$5,000
ABORIGINAL HOUSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIONC$2,200
CITY OF VICTORIAC$2,000
BC NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATIONC$2,000
AFFINE CLIMATE SOLUTIONS SOCIETYC$2,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 63% of grant dollars (C$234k). The 37% that went abroad (C$135k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 37% of all-years giving (C$135k)

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

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.

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EcoSchools Canada

EcoSchools Canada delivers programs to advance environmental education and leadership in K-12 schools across Canada. Ongoing programs include a certification program for K-12 schools that promotes and recognizes environmental learning and…

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2
British Columbia Sustainable Energy Association

Bcsea provides educational resources to further the sustainable energy future of british columbia. the cool it! program operates in schools across the province to help students and their families make behavioural changes toward a…

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3
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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4
Makeway Foundation

MakeWay Foundation's purpose is to build partnerships and solutions that help nature and communities thrive together. The Foundation supports convenes or funds hundreds of qualified donees every year from neighbourhood social programs to…

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5
Ine Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research Association

Energy economics in bc research project prosperous transition project indigenous economics systems project

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6
Quest - Quality Urban Energy Systems of Tomorrow/Quest - Systèmes d'énergie de qualité pour les villes de demain

During the year QUEST advanced its charitable purpose of supporting sustainable community energy planning and Canada’s net-zero transition. Ongoing programs: The Western Net-Zero Communities Accelerator (W-NCA) helped communities develop…

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7
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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8
The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation

Alberta ecotrust foundation implements programs and projects to protect the environment which includes protecting the quality of air and water wildlife habitat parks and suburban land use. in addition to its own projects and in pursuit of…

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9
Georgia Strait Alliance

Public Engagement – increasing the understanding of the importance of the health of Georgia Strait as a regional ecosystem and providing individuals and communities with the tools to take local and regional action to improve the health of…

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10
T Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation

EDUCATE THE PUBLIC OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AS THE IMPORTANCE OF FISHERIES HABITAT CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC GROWTH AND FISHERIES HABITAT. Citizen science project empowering fish…

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11
Endangered Ecosystems Alliance

Educating the public of the current state of the environment and conservation principles. information is provided to the general public through news media engagement social media postings public hikes and presentations in order to increase…

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12
The Global Youth Education Network Society

Next up programs in bc climate change leadership program

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Energy Association and the most unlike its peers is Cheakamus Foundation for Environmental Learning. 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

9 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. 9 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
1/9
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 budgetCHEAKAMUS FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING — C$50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBCIT — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION — C$22,300 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHUB CYCLING — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBC INDIGENOUS HOUSING SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENERGY ASSOCIATION — C$14,867 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTARFISH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ONLY ANIMAL THEATRE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMAKE WAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$5,000 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.

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Vancouver FoundationBC7.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancouver Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 18 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 charitable organization under environment.

Source object 762832269:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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