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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

Pena Family Foundation

1) advances education by providing scholarships to bcit and langara students for use by the recipient students to further their post-secondary education 2) made a capital gift to ubc to establish a learning and events room for use by the faculty and students for workshops and like events.

C$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$38k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$20k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$48k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANGARA COLLEGEC$38,000
JOHN OLIVER SECONDARY SCHOOLC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF BCC$9,000
EMILY CARR UNIVERSITYC$5,000
VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGEC$3,000
BCIT FOUNDATIONC$2,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF VANCOUVERC$1,000
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 — 35% of grant dollars (C$264k). The 65% that went abroad (C$500k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 65% of all-years giving (C$500k)

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

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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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$253k · 9 repeat orgsC$511k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

C$253k
C$502k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+176%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k 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

  • LC
    LANGARA COLLEGE
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$93k · revenue +33%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BC
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$44k · revenue +43%
  • VF
    VANCOUVER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2020 · C$40k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of British Columbia
    one grant, 2019 · C$500k
  • LC
    Langara College Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue +176%

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
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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2
Camosun College Foundation

The Foundation assists Camosun College to expand and enhance its educational programs or services not funded by government including financial aid to students at Camosun College. The Foundation provides an opportunity for individual…

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3
The Vancouver Education Foundation

To provide scholarship funding for students of LaBelle College, Vancouver.

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4
Vancouver College Foundation

Fundraising activities in support of vancouver college limited. management of trust funds and endowment funds.

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5
Engineering and Geoscience Education Foundation Bc

Provide scholarships and bursaries to post-secondary students in the study of engineering of geoscience

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6
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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7
The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia

Scholarships bursaries awards to support education and research in architecture.

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8
University Womens Club of Vancouver Trust Fund for Education

The trust fund for education awards scholarships and bursaries. the trust fund distributes its monies to universities colleges and other institutions in order to help students further their academic studies.

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9
Ubc Alumni Association Educational Endowment Trust

During the reporting period the charity awarded bursaries to ubc students.

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10
Scholarship Foundation of the Pacific

The foundation continues to provide full scholarship (tuition books board & lodging travel expenses) to four (4) students at simon fraser university (sfu) and bursaries to two (2) students.

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11
Fraser Valley Scholarship Foundation

Scholarship and bursary awards to students for post-secondary education

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Langara College. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
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 budgetLANGARA COLLEGE — C$93,069 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BC — C$43,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBCIT FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.39 (VANCOUVER) — C$22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMILY CARR UNIVERSITY — C$7,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSt. Mary's Parish — C$7,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKPU FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLangara College Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Credit Union Foundati…Vancouver FoundationUniversity Womens Clu…Skills for Hope Found…North Shore Community…Y.P.Heung FoundationUnited Way British Co…Zlc FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
Vancity Community FoundationBC9.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · University Womens Club of Vancouver Trust Fund for Education · Skills for Hope Foundation · North Shore Community Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Zlc Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · 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 12 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 public foundation under core health care.

Source object 842927741:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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