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North Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

North Shore Community Foundation

Provides grants to organizations that provide programs and counseling for youth provide shelter and services to the homeless provide shlter and services for the welfare of domentic animals provide training and support and education for volunteers and caregivers who support youth and seniors provide support services for live-alone…

C$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k39 grants · C$116k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$64k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$70k
C$3,500
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARE BC NORTH SHORE FAMILY RESPITE CENTREC$70,000
SQUAMISH NATIONC$20,000
HURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$15,000
CROFTON HOUSE SCHOOLC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$14,000
SQUAMISH NEIGHBOURHOOD ANIMAL PARTNERSHIP & PROTECTION SOCIEC$8,000
FANSC$5,320
VANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERSC$5,000
VANCOUVER ORPHAN KITTEN RESCUEC$5,000
SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOLC$5,000
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$5,000
THE OUT ON SCREEN FILM AND VIDEO SOCIETYC$4,500
VANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETYC$4,500
PARKGATE COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$4,250
NS STROKE RECOVERY CENTREC$4,250
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$830k · 61 repeat orgsC$976k 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 +40% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
70

Total granted

C$830k
C$791k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+40%

Still filing today

62%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$185k 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

  • U
    UBC
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$81k · revenue +55%
  • HF
    Hollyburn Family Services
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$32k · revenue +44%
  • AR
    AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY
    2× · 2018–2020 · C$31k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHORE
    one grant, 2023 · C$73k
  • CM
    CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION NORTH & WEST
    one grant, 2023 · C$56k
  • HP
    HARVEST PROJECT
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue +24%

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 the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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2
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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3
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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4
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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5
Langara College Foundation

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

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6
Vancouver Island University

Vancouver island university (viu) is an organization that values a diverse range of training and education. viu offers programs from basic literacy to vocational programs trades undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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7
Citystudio Vancouver Society

Citystudio vancouver program: innovation hub that coordinates projects between the city of vancouver and local post-secondary institutions by bringing together city staff students faculty and community to co create experimental projects…

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8
Wilfrid Laurier University

The primary purpose of wilfrid laurier university is to provide post-secondary education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. the university provides education programs in eight academic faculties: arts science business &…

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9
Columbia College

1) Provide university transfer courses and two year Associate Degrees in Arts and Science which are recognized (articulated) by universities in British Columbia and across Canada and certified by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education and…

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10
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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11
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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12
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change the World Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Capilano University. 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

70 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. 70 of the 159 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/70
Grantees still filing
62/70
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 budgetUBC — C$80,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$50,500 over 2y, 41% of budgetHARVEST PROJECT — C$50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTurning Point Recovery Society — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetQuest Outreach Society — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHollyburn Family Services — C$31,675 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$30,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNorth Shore Meals on Wheels — C$28,464 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetVancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Society — C$25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNorth Shore Neighbourhood House — C$24,141 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWest Vancouver Community Foundation — C$22,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFund for the Arts on the North Shore — C$22,191 over 4y, 78% of budgetNORTH SHORE STROKE RECOVERY CENTRE — C$19,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY — C$18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NORTH SHORE MUSEUM ARCHIVES — C$17,820 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetCapilano University — C$16,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLOYGON GALLERY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS UNIVERSITY — C$14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sisters of Lower Mainland — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE STREET SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSFU — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA METRO VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKGATE COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$9,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTRE OF BRITISH — C$9,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSCIENCE WORLD — C$8,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETY (VCDS) — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPATHWAYS SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS — C$7,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of Waterloo — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSTIY — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSTIY OF TORONTO — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBCIT — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPILANO COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$5,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEvergreen House — C$5,028 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Women's Centre — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPresentation House — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetATHLETICS FOR KIDS — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS SOCIETY OF BC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhole Dyslexic Society — C$4,800 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNorth Vancouver District Public Library — C$3,556 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADD METRO VANCOUVER — C$3,498 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,448 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds UBC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Turning Point Recovery Society ↗
  • Who funds Quest Outreach Society ↗
  • Who funds Hollyburn Family Services ↗
  • Who funds AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds North Shore Meals on Wheels ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Society ↗
  • Who funds North Shore Neighbourhood House ↗
  • Who funds West Vancouver Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Fund for the Arts on the North Shore ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE STROKE RECOVERY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NORTH SHORE MUSEUM ARCHIVES ↗
  • Who funds Capilano University ↗
  • Who funds THE PLOYGON GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

West Vancouver Commun…Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…The Hamber FoundationVancouver FoundationLohn FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Djavad Mowafaghian Fo…Port Coquitlam Commun…Y.P.Heung FoundationBc Government Employe…
West Vancouver Community FoundationBC32.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: West Vancouver Community Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation · Port Coquitlam Community Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust

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 159 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 891642043:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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