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Quesnel Foundation

The QUESNEL FOUNDATION (the 'foundation') was created on august 12 2013 to embody the philanthropical spirit of the shumka family.

C$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANUCK PLACEC$7,000
VANCOUVER MOVING THEATREC$6,000
VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETYC$5,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
LITTLE FLOWER ACADEMY FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATIONC$4,500
DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATIONC$4,000
VANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERSC$3,500
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$2,000
CANADIAN FAIT FOUNDATIONC$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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$667k · 14 repeat orgsC$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

C$667k
C$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • EC
    Emily Carr University
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$427k · revenue ×1,073 · 83% of their budget
  • SJ
    ST. JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY
    3× · 2018–2022 · C$58k · revenue +26%
  • CP
    CANUCK PLACE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$34k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • PB
    PACIFIC BALLET BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY (BALLET BC)
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +5%
  • BO
    BC ORCA BURSARYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue +27%
  • MC
    MELANOMA CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +52%

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
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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2
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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3
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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4
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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5
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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6
Langara College Foundation

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

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7
Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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8
Vancouver Opera Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to receive hold and invest bequests donations gifts funds and property and to administer and distribute funds property endowments trusts and financial programs for the funding and support of the programs…

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9
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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10
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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11
Variety - the Children's Charity of Bc

Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations. Variety funds renovations equipment…

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12
Vancouver Community College Foundation

Providing scholarships and bursaries to students at vancouver community college providing equipment for programs at vancouver community college and providing funds for program development and faculties expansion at vancouver community…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central City Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Camp Fircom Society of the United Church of Canada. 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

23 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. 23 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
22/23
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 budgetEmily Carr University — C$426,791 over 5y, 83% of budgetST. JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$57,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCANUCK PLACE — C$34,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$24,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATION — C$23,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE FLOWER ACADEMY — C$20,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$18,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Moving Theatre Society — C$18,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetVANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS — C$16,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetVANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY — C$10,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC BALLET BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY (BALLET BC) — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBC ORCA BURSARY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROFTON HOUSE — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMELANOMA CANADA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Fircom Society of the United Church of Canada — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOAK COUNSELLING SERVICES SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCentral City Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAunt Leah's Independent Lifeskills Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FAIT FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE — C$750 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.

United Way British Co…Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationJohn C. Kerr Family F…Vancity Community Fou…The Hamber FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Lrj Charitable Founda…Martha Lou Henley Cha…Peter & Joanne Brown …Cknw Kids' Fund
United Way British ColumbiaBC12× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · John C. Kerr Family Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Lrj Charitable Foundation · Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · Cknw Kids' Fund

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 24 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 843530577:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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