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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$270k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$8k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$217k
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$900k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$270k
C$25,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATIONC$270,000
JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENTC$160,000
RUGBY CANADAC$150,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$150,000
MYRIAD CANADAC$100,000
BIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLANDC$80,000
BARD ON THE BEACHC$60,000
MANNING FOUNDATIONC$50,000
ST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
FRASER INSTITUTEC$50,000
BEEDIE LUMINARIESC$50,000
MADRONA SCHOOL SOCIETYC$27,000
SECONDDTREET.ORGC$25,000
DR PETER AIDS FOUNDATIONC$25,000
VANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATIONC$25,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.1M · 46 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
50

Total granted

C$9.1M
C$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$342k 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

  • SG
    St George's School Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +6%
  • FI
    FRASER INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$954k · revenue +53%
  • BS
    BIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$761k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k
  • GC
    GOLF CANADA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k
  • ZR
    ZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2022 · C$55k · revenue +20%

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
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Langara College Foundation

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

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6
Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation
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7
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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8
British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation

The bcit foundation raises funds to further the goals and objectives of british columbia institute of technology ('bcit') for the development and expansion of the education programs services capital projects and other initiatives as…

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9
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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10
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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11
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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12
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lions Club of Vancouver Chinatown (1982). 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

99 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. 99 of the 104 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
67/99
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSt George's School Foundation — C$1,000,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetFRASER INSTITUTE — C$953,650 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND — C$761,100 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT — C$690,000 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH SOCIETY — C$620,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$586,450 over 7y, 10% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$405,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAUDAIN ART MSUEUM FDN — C$348,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetSULLIVAN UROLOGY — C$300,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATION — C$225,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFORUM FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN BC — C$223,750 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetUBS (FACULTY OF MEDICINE) — C$217,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY — C$200,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetBEEDIE LUMINARIES — C$200,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$150,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$131,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN — C$125,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetRADCLIFFE FOUNDATION — C$122,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBC SPCA — C$120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATION — C$115,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEL JR. & MARTY ZAJAC FOUNDATION — C$110,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMYRIAD CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$85,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetRCAF ASSOCIATION TRUST — C$75,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetDR PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMANNING FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetDEFI CANDEREL- INSTITUT DE CANCER — C$67,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BC — C$60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJUSTICE INSTITUTE OF BC — C$57,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDREN — C$55,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGORDON & MARION SMITH FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY OF BC — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetProspectors and Developers Association of Canada Mining Matt — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE ADVOCACY CENTRE SOCIETY VANCOUVER — C$50,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetSECONDDTREET.ORG — C$50,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESS — C$48,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Burn Fund — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADRONA SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$27,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Diamond FoundationMichael and Inna O'Br…Vancity Community Fou…John C. Kerr Family F…Conam Charitable Foun…Beedie FoundationThe Joseph Segal Fami…United Way British Co…Lohn Foundation
Zlc FoundationBC24.9× affinity27 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 · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · John C. Kerr Family Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Beedie Foundation · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Lohn 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 104 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 2024-11-30, 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 893063768:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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