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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

Po Lam Buddhist Association

Counseling for the bereaved and the ill; providing meditation classes at b.c.

C$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$3,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUNG LIN KOK YUENC$3,000
BURNABY HOSPICE SOCIETYC$1,000
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$34k · 8 repeat orgsC$44k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +79% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

C$34k
C$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+79%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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
    CHI HENG FOUNDATION CANADA
    3× · 2017–2022 · C$8k · revenue +41%
  • VF
    VIPASSANA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$7k · revenue +44%
  • OC
    ORBIS CANADA
    3× · 2017–2022 · C$6k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • RH
    RICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$30k · revenue +91%
  • MK
    Mui Kwok Buddhist Templegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +79%
  • CF
    CAREFIRST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue +502%

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
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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3
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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4
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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5
Alzheimer Research Foundation of B.C.

To fund facilitate promote and carry out research into the cause treatment and cure of alzheimer's disease.

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6
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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7
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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8
Integrative Cancer Foundation of Bc
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9
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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10
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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11
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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12
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bc Cancer Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vipassana Foundation. 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMui Kwok Buddhist Temple — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHI HENG FOUNDATION CANADA — C$7,800 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVIPASSANA FOUNDATION — C$7,302 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetORBIS CANADA — C$5,555 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBURNABY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$5,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTUNG LIN KOK YUEN — C$3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBURNABY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$2,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BC — C$1,502 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAREFIRST FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSalvation Army — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILLIWACK BOWLS OF HOPE SOCIETY — C$800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLINGYEN MOUNTAIN TEMPLE (CANADA) — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA LUNG ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuddhist Education Foundation for Canada — C$300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEagle Ridge Hospital Foundation — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$100 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.

United Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…Telus Employees Chari…Bc Government Employe…Ocean Wise Conservati…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Private Giving Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Canada …Charitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct Foundation
United Way British ColumbiaBC9.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Vancouver Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Private Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct 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 18 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 support of religion.

Source object 892771767:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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