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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Pacific Spirit Foundation

C$795k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$300k
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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$225k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$550k
C$250,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COVENANT HOUSEC$300,000
BIG SISTERS OF B.C. LOWER MAINLANDC$250,000
TAKE A HIKE FOUNDATIONC$225,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.6M · 7 repeat orgsC$480k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +126% since the first grant, against +39% 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
13

Total granted

C$2.6M
C$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+126%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$270k 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

  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +81%
  • Y
    YWCA
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$928k · revenue +126%
  • TA
    TAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$320k · revenue +639%

Funded once

  • SF
    STREETHOME FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue -36%
  • CS
    Collingwood School Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$33k · revenue +48%
  • TG
    THE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · 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.

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Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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2
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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3
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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4
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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5
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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6
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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7
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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8
Vancouver Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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9
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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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
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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12
Langara College Foundation

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Collingwood School 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

21 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. 21 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
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 budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$1,265,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetYWCA — C$928,100 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION — C$320,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF B.C. LOWER MAINLAND — C$250,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSTREETHOME FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCollingwood School Society — C$33,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF BC — C$27,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE RIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSt. Paul's Foundation — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHIMP FOUNDATION — C$11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Parklands Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVCC Foundation — C$4,521 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHISTLER SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$1,000 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.

Vancouver FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Aqueduct FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Raymond James Canada …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…BenefAction FoundationUnited Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
Vancouver FoundationBC9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancouver Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 22 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 2024-04-30, 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 847388154:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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