Vancouver, BC · Public foundation
Priority Foundation
Making charitable gifts to qualified donees including 501 c 3 organizations which qualify as registered charities pursuant to article xx1 of the canada - us tax convention.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$7k
- C$10k–50k16 grants · C$320k
- C$50k–250k11 grants · C$815k
- C$250k+3 grants · C$5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RETHING CHAIRTY EIN 82-5325150 | C$4,121,997 |
| RETHINK CHARITY EIN: 82-5325150 | C$1,109,570 |
| COMFORT AID INTERNATIONAL - EIN 84-1667485 | C$276,994 |
| ASAP MINISTRIES EIN: 383256028 | C$125,823 |
| ENNEAGRAM PRISON PROJECT E1N 45-5340135 | C$96,630 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE CRIMINAL JUSTICE REF EIN 81-5269212 | C$93,278 |
| KAMUKAMA FD EIN 46-1381070 | C$80,209 |
| ASAP MINISTRIES EIN 38-3256028 | C$78,189 |
| TIBETAN NUNS PROJECT EIN 68-0327175 | C$67,914 |
| EARTHENABLE INC EIN 46-5540643 | C$61,750 |
| JESUS FOR ASIA EIN 20-2655876 | C$61,239 |
| YOUTH 71 FIVE MINISTRIES EIN: 93-0509269 | C$50,000 |
| LAHASH INTERNATIONAL EIN: 20-4787434 | C$50,000 |
| LAHASH INTERNATIONAL EIN 20-4787434 | C$50,000 |
| PLENTVILLE FOUNDATION | C$40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 4% of grant dollars (C$594k). The 96% that went abroad (C$14M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 96% of all-years giving (C$14M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4.7M went to new ones.
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
- RCRETHINK CHARITY EIN 82-53251503× · 2019–2022 · C$2.9M
- CACOMFORT AID INTERNATIONAL2× · 2020–2021 · C$649k
- AMASAP MINISTRIES EIN 38-32560282× · 2021–2022 · C$424k
Funded once
- RCRETHINK CHARITYone grant, 2020 · C$2.1M
- CAComfort Aid International EIN084-1667485one grant, 2017 · C$528k
- PAPROJECT ANGEL EIN: 95-4115863one grant, 2019 · C$171k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centres for B.C. and the most unlike its peers is Canadian Urban Planning Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 98 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Vancouver Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Abundance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.