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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

Ocean Wise Conservation Association

• Education programs – virtual and in-person curriculum-based programs from Kindergarten to Grade 12 French language programs professional development for teachers home learner programs and outreach programs including the Ocean Wise Sea Dome program - a mobile teaching vehicle.

C$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,850
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipientC$5,850
Individual grant recipientC$5,850
Individual grant recipientC$5,850
Individual grant recipientC$5,400
Individual grant recipientC$5,300
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 — 58% of grant dollars (C$39k). The 42% that went abroad (C$28k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 42% of all-years giving (C$28k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

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

03Your 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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$8k · 36 repeat orgsC$59k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
201

Total granted

C$8k
C$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$28k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’24
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

  • BB
    BALLET BC
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$850 · revenue +55%
  • CO
    Children's Organ Transplant Society of BC
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$366 · revenue +104%
  • CS
    Children s Heart Network of BC Society
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$308 · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • BC
    BC Children's Hospital Foundationgraduated
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$3k · revenue +38%
  • CP
    Canuck Place Childrens Hospicegraduated
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$2k · revenue +76%
  • SH
    Sunny Hill Foundation for Children
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$2k · revenue -84%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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 Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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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
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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5
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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6
Story Studio Writing Society

Story Studio is an award-winning BC-based charity that inspires educates and empowers youth to be great storytellers transforming lives and strengthening communities. The charity supports the well-being of children youth and families…

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7
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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8
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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9
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Society Branch

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation services. The Centre investigates and evaluates the occurrence…

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10
Greater Vancouver Society to Bridge Arts and Community

BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre

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11
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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12
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association and the most unlike its peers is Triumf. 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

392 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
141
Early backer (in before they grew)
379/392
Grantees still filing
310/392
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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$2,530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanuck Place Childrens Hospice — C$2,472 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSunny Hill Foundation for Children — C$1,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOcean Wise Conservation Association — C$1,177 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS) — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET BC — C$850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA — C$645 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver International Writers Festival Society — C$514 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$514 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$420 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Organ Transplant Society of BC — C$366 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House BC & Yukon — C$362 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ADAPTIVE SNOW SPORTS (VASS) — C$312 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren s Heart Network of BC Society — C$308 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$236 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers and Big Sisters of Prince George — C$232 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBurnaby Hospice Society — C$232 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDreams Take Flight — C$232 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis — C$232 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPort Moody Firefighters Charitable Society — C$232 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSalvation Army Gateway of Hope — C$232 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProstate Cancer Foundation BC — C$232 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVariety - The Children's Charity of BC — C$232 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wellspring Foundation for Education — C$232 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Bach Choir — C$232 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLangley Hospice Society — C$228 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Lower Mainland — C$228 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetS.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation — C$228 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers of Greater Vancouver — C$228 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Diabetes Association — C$228 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Arch Hospital Foundation — C$228 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC Hospitality Foundation (BCHF) — C$228 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Heritage Foundaiton — C$225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics — C$225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA/MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION — C$215 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Wish Foundation — C$210 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSurrey Hospital Foundation — C$210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGibsons Marine Education Centre Society — C$210 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALS AUTISM SOCIETY — C$160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA EASTER SEAL SOCIETY — C$156 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$156 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR ABILITY FOUNDATION — C$156 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOMOE ARTS SOCIETY — C$156 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$156 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$156 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE — C$156 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS CANADA — C$156 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC RIDING FOR DEVELOPING ABILITES (PRDA) — C$156 over 4y, 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.

The Hamber FoundationLohn FoundationChris-Spencer Foundat…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Al Roadburg FoundationLoyal Protestant Asso…Vancity Community Fou…Centra Cares Foundati…Zlc FoundationCknw Kids' FundDiamond FoundationFirst West Foundation
The Hamber FoundationBC32.1× affinity84 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Chris-Spencer Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Al Roadburg Foundation · Loyal Protestant Association · Vancity Community Foundation · Centra Cares Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Cknw Kids' Fund · Diamond Foundation · First West 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 242 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 public amenities.

Source object 119282119:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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