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Richmond, BC · Private foundation

Openroad Foundation

The foundation was established to support and increase charitable giving in canada.

C$467k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$31k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$29k
  • C$10k–50k18 grants · C$438k
C$24,474
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANGLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH AND HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$31,189
VOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETYC$30,000
THRIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CANADAC$30,000
TAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$30,000
VANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS SOCIETYC$30,000
CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICEC$25,750
PATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE SOCIETY OF RICHMONDC$25,000
COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$25,000
WEST COAST KIDS CANCER FOUNDATIONC$25,000
SEA SMART SCHOOL SOCIETYC$25,000
ECOSOURCE MISSISSAUGAC$25,000
BABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETYC$24,474
ASPIRE RICHMOND SUPPORT SOCIETYC$20,320
STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY HUB SOCIETYC$20,000
WELLSPRING CHINGUACOUSY FOUNDATIONC$20,000
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$247k · 5 repeat orgsC$446k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

C$247k
C$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-5%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$331k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TV
    THE VOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$60k · revenue +11%
  • LC
    LANGLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH AND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$56k · revenue +15%
  • TA
    TAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$55k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • KT
    KNIGHTS TABLE
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +7%
  • CD
    CITY DREAMS CENTRE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k
  • AL
    AUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue -9%

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
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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2
Richmond Schoolyard Society

The Richmond Schoolyard Society has been teaching children about health and social responsibility since 2006. Our program promotes community, local organic food, health eating choices and food sustainability. Through this program children…

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3
Victoria Community Food Hub Society

The society is a multi-stakeholder society that supports the development of a sustainable local food system on vancouver island. the over-srching goal of the organization is to increase the production of island-grown food while incubating…

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4
Nutritionlink Services Society

Nutritionlink services society (nls) promotes and enhances eating choices for people and communities in british columbia. nls works in collaboration with others to enhance individuals' ability to make healthy food choices. nls supports the…

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5
Victoria Rainbow Kitchen Society

Victoria rainbow kitchen society is known as a leader in food security in our community providing essential in-home hot meals and food sharing programs each week including meals supplied to three local public schools. supporting over 230…

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6
Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy food to those in need. The Society provides food support to approximately 16 000 children adults and seniors monthly through its…

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7
Victoria Humane Society

The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…

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8
Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland

Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…

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9
Nourish Leadership

Nourish programs support leadership by the health care sector to adopt practices that use the power of food to build health for people and the planet. the organization hosts action learning programs to engage hospitals and long-term care…

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10
Lush Valley Food Action Society

The Fruit Tree and Farm Gleaning Program utilizes volunteers to harvest and redistribute thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and produce from homes farms and orchards that would otherwise go to waste and re-distributes the produce back to…

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11
The Kidsafe Project Society

(1) kidsafe supports over 750 children annually at 7 school-based sites in vancouver. we welcome children reffered as vulnerable ages 5-13 for no cost to families. programs include nutritious meals guests and activities field trips pick…

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12
Nanaimo Foodshare Society

Lunch Munch/School Meals Lunch Munch provides home-made and nutritious food at no cost to school aged children in need and their family throughout the year. While we offer these food provisions we also ensure that recipients practise food…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cknw Kids' Fund and the most unlike its peers is The Happy Herd Farm Sanctuary 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

25 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. 25 of the 29 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
6/25
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE VOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetLANGLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH AND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$56,189 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTAKE A HIKE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHRIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CANADA — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$25,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECOSOURCE MISSISSAUGA — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSEA SMART SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWEST COAST KIDS CANCER FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE SOCIETY OF RICHMOND — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKNIGHTS TABLE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$24,474 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETY — C$20,960 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetASPIRE RICHMOND SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$20,320 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROWING CHEFS SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWELLSPRING CHINGUACOUSY FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSTOREHOUSE COMMUNITY HUB SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRICHMOND FOOD SECURITY SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCKNW KID'S FUND — C$9,619 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREGIONAL ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$6,854 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER ORPHAN KITTEN RESCUE — C$6,660 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLADY BALLERS CENTRE — C$6,256 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HAPPY HERD FARM SANCTUARY SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Raymond James Canada …Vancity Community Fou…First West FoundationVancouver FoundationThe Hamber FoundationLohn FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Bc Government Employe…BenefAction Foundation
Zlc FoundationBC12.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · First West Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · BenefAction 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 29 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 704629534:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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