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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

Open Way Community Church

Bi-monthly services of Christian Worship and education with children's programs; provision of Pastoral Care Spiritual/pastoral counselling; Bi-monthly inter-generational groups for study and support; regular social connection groups over shared interests including films games etc.

C$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,250
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$72k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sanctuary Mental Health SocietyC$1,250
Islamic Relief CanadaC$1,250
WISH Drop-In Centre SocietyC$1,250
CanadaHelpsC$1,250
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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9k · 7 repeat orgsC$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

C$9k
C$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • C
    CanadaHelps
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$2k · revenue +135%
  • IR
    Islamic Relief Canada
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2k · revenue +15%
  • N
    NICCSS
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$2k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • PA
    Programme Action Refugies Montreal
    one grant, 2023 · C$7k · revenue -8%
  • GY
    Global Youth Volunteer Network
    one grant, 2023 · C$7k · revenue -37%
  • DA
    Disability Alliance BC Societygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$500 · revenue +27%

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
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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2
Covenant House Vancouver

Covenant House Vancouver offers a 24-hour crisis shelter a supported living program street outreach and drop-in service for youth aged at 16-24 who are homeless and at risk of homeless. Covenant House Vancouver supports young people by…

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3
Vancouver Rape Relief Society

The society operates programs aimed to end violence against women and to act as an educational force for progressive changes in attitudes laws institutional procedures and to work for the prevention of rape. vancouver rape relief society…

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4
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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5
Surrey Women's Centre Society

Offers a range of low barrier drop in resources including crisis court counselling advocacy and health services for individuals who have experienced gender-based violence. Accompaniment to hospital police and court. Specialized co-location…

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6
Refugee Career Jumpstart Project

Our first activity is to provide employment related services to newly settled refugees in Canada to accelerate their career preparedness and access to meaningful employment economic opportunities for the purpose of helping to alleviate…

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7
Indwell Community Homes

Indwell creates and operates affordable housing communities that support people seeking health wellness and belonging. Indwell's affordable supportive housing programs primarily support individuals with low incomes and disabilities…

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8
Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch

Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…

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9
Kinbrace Community Society

Kinbrace Community Society welcomes refugee claimants with housing support education and community. We do this through our Housing Employment Wellness Community Refugee Protection and Beyond Refuge programs. The Housing program provides…

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10
Connective Support Society

Connective is a community-based social services nonprofit operating in BC and the Yukon to create safe healthy and inclusive communities for all. Over the past 90 years we’ve woven a strong social safety net that addresses the needs of all…

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11
Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society

Newcomer Wraparound Support Program: Initiated in 2012 and originally funded by the province of B.C. the program has been federally funded since 2014. It continues to provide specialized settlement services to the most vulnerable newcomers…

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12
Rainbow Refugee Association of Nova Scotia

Settlement Support: We provide direct settlement support 1 on 1 support and systems navigation to government assisted refugees privately sponsored refugees and refugee claimants who are LGTBQI+ identified and living in Nova Scotia. This…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wish Drop-in Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is Sanctuary Mental Health 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

18 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. 18 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
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 budgetProgramme Action Refugies Montreal — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGlobal Youth Volunteer Network — C$7,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCanadaHelps — C$2,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIslamic Relief Canada — C$1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNICCSS — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSanctuary Mental Health Society — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISH Drop-In Centre Society — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRavens moon Resource Society — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRainbow Refugee Society — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Margaret's Cedar Cottage Anglican Church — C$800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Baptist Ministries — C$600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDisability Alliance BC Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpectrum Society for Community Living — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vancouver Out on Screen Film and Video Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParish of St. Augustine — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJustWork Economic Initiative — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlace of Refuge — C$400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCharitable Impact Foundation — C$400 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.

Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Makeway FoundationThe Canadian Red Cros…Abundance CanadaBc Government Employe…Aqueduct FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…Charitable Gift Funds…Strategic Charitable …
Vancity Community FoundationBC10.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Makeway Foundation · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge · Abundance Canada · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Aqueduct Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Strategic Charitable Giving 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 19 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 christianity.

Source object 753597087:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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