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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Nicola Family Foundation

NICOLA FAMILY FOUNDATION supported registered canadian charities.

C$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$279k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$865k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$850k
C$33,335
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$600,000
NWM PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATIONC$250,000
TAKE A HIKE FOUNDATIONC$200,000
VGH AND UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$150,000
CANUCK PLACEC$115,000
SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETYC$100,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$100,000
THE INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSIONC$100,000
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$100,000
ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATIONC$46,000
MOVEMBER CANADAC$33,335
BARD ON THE BACH THEATRE SOCIETYC$25,000
LEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETY (LDS)C$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT BCC$25,000
DR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATIONC$25,000
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.7M · 33 repeat orgsC$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
34

Total granted

C$9.7M
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$75k 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

  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue +39%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue +42%
  • NP
    NWM PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATION (UKRANIAN CAMPAIGN)
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +302%

Funded once

  • HE
    HOLY EUCHARIST CATHEDRAL
    one grant, 2022 · C$232k · revenue -50%
  • CH
    Covenant House Vancouver
    one grant, 2018 · C$200k
  • EE
    ENDANGERED ECO SYSTEM ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · C$200k · revenue +9% · 57% of their budget

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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5
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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6
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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7
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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8
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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9
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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10
Harbour Lights Foundation

Harbour Lights Foundation is a private Vancouver based foundation dedicated to helping Canadian Registered Charities achieve their goals and missions. We are a proud donor in supporting scholarships funds and helping students with…

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11
West Vancouver Community Foundation

With a focus on philanthropy grants and leadership our vision is a healthy and vibrant west vancouver where everyone is valued contributes and feels they belong. the west vancouver foundation offers our donors expert assistance in learning…

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12
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Polity Research 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

67 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. 67 of the 71 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
49/67
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 budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$1,650,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$1,564,275 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetNWM PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATION (UKRANIAN CAMPAIGN) — C$1,088,160 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWELL BEING FOUNDATION — C$800,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetCANUCK PLACE — C$581,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetVancouver Public Library Foundation — C$512,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — C$440,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$430,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION — C$420,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetB.C. CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$286,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVGH AND UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY — C$245,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetHOLY EUCHARIST CATHEDRAL — C$231,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetENDANGERED ECO SYSTEM ALLIANCE — C$200,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$166,262 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBC SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS — C$125,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetERIKA LEGACY FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HELATH FOUNDATION — C$120,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$111,712 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetCANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATION — C$105,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$95,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$87,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$82,287 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT BC — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCNEWA (WIRE TRANSFER) — C$55,125 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetStigma-Free Society — C$50,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN LIFE ASSEMBLY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KIDS HELP PHONE — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$44,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD (QUEEN MARY PAC) — C$37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE GIRL CAN SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETY (LDS) — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$33,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$33,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE ASSET DEVELOPMENT — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBARD ON THE BACH THEATRE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDASCH FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC POST PARTUM SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetODD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPacific Parkinson's Research Institute — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCIENCE WORLD — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF BC (MOVE TO CURE ALS) — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARPOLE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…First Light FoundationThe Joseph Segal Fami…The Hamber FoundationDiamond FoundationJewish Federation of …Png Enterprise Founda…The Connor Clark & L…Beedie Foundation
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC23.8× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · First Light Foundation · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Png Enterprise Foundation · The Connor Clark & Lunn 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 71 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 734118896:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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