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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

R.R. Smith Memorial Fund Foundation

The rrsmff supports educational programs in canada and overseas.

C$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$252k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$4,000
THE VICTORIA-TAIAMA PARTNERSHIPC$3,190
CANADIAN WOMEN OF WOMEN IN AFGHANISTANC$3,000
CANADIAN HARAMBEE EDUCATION SOCIETYC$2,650
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF OAXACAC$2,500
CODEVELOPMENT CANADAC$2,500
INOVATIVECOMMUNITIES.ORG FOUNDATIONC$2,500
TUMAINI FUND CANADAC$2,500
ONE GIRL CAN SOCIETYC$2,300
VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITYC$2,000
NITEO AFRICA SOCIETYC$2,000
UMOJA OPERATION COMPASSION SOCIETYC$2,000
COMPASSION FRUIT SOCIETY - PROJECT SOMOSC$2,000
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$2,000
THREE RIVERS UNIVERSITYC$2,000
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$240k · 32 repeat orgsC$74k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
32

Total granted

C$240k
C$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+8%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$26k 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

  • CH
    CANADIAN HARAMBEE EDUCATION SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +66%
  • BB
    BRIGHT BEGINNINGS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$15k · revenue +22%
  • CW
    CANADIAN WOMENF OR WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$14k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • FF
    FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k
  • KE
    KENYA EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k
  • CW
    CANADIAN WOMEN FOR WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k

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
Videa a Bc-Based International Development Education Association

Based in Victoria with programs across BC and Canada engaging the public (including youth First Nations seniors) in critical development issues building links with overseas partners. Providing solidarity and support to overseas partners in…

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2
Viaduct Technology in Education Society

Despite some challenges TIES continued to deliver benefits to students in developing countries through three ongoing projects in 2024: 1) The most notable TIES project in 2024 was the Kenya University Scholarships Project; two young women…

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3
Partners for International Development (PfID)

PFID operates poverty alleviation projects in Kenya with a focus on the provision of basic education at the upper primary and secondary school level. The education projects serve economically disadvantaged children and youth. These…

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4
Vancouver Sowers Society of Education

Help improve education in impoverished regions and countries by re-building schools or school facilities and subsidizing students for their education related expenses.

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5
Women's Education and Literacy in Nepal

Education and literacy proprograms for women in nepal income generation projects for women in nepal scholarship

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6
Key Education Project

Scholarships in nicaragua

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7
Nepali Children's Education Project

Advancing educational opportunities for children attending lower secondary higher secondary and post-secondary school in Kathmandu Nepal by providing financial and social support through comprehensive scholarship and mentorship programs…

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8
Kina Social Ventures Society

Educating future leaders - scholarships for girls at risk girls college program - girls scholarships girls in technology - computer programming for young women in nepal

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9
Academics without Borders / Universitaires sans frontières

Academics without border mission is to help people in the developing world realize their dreams through higher education because education is the key to a flourishing society and a sustainable world. academics without borders' projects are…

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10
The Global Schoolhouse Initiative

We give educational equipment and programs to students in developing nations. We develop and provide education curriculum. We deliver educational equipment and programs and train local organizations to provide education to students.…

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11
The Association for the Aninga Project

The Aninga Project is an education initiative that supports the education and empowerment of women in Africa. We currently have over 60 young women in school in Uganda Kenya and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and have had the privilege…

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12
Pathway to Progress Nicaragua

Improving the education of children living in nicaragua

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umoja Operation Compassion Society and the most unlike its peers is Huggs 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

58 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. 58 of the 78 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/58
Grantees still filing
35/58
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANADIAN HARAMBEE EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$16,350 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS FOUNDATION — C$14,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN WOMENF OR WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN — C$14,450 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTUMAINI FUND CANADA — C$14,250 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetONE GIRL CAN — C$13,100 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKENYA EDUCATION FUND - KEEF — C$11,400 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetLOVE GUATEMALA — C$11,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGIBSONS' MARINE EDUCATION CENTRE SOCIETY — C$10,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S CARE — C$10,200 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE VICTORIA-TAIAMA PARTNERSHIP — C$9,290 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetDAYS FOR GIRLS — C$8,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLORE OF AFRICA — C$7,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetACCES — C$7,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetVANCOUVER OPERA GUILD — C$7,200 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetBC LEARNING CENTRES FOR CHILDREN WITH DYSLEXIA — C$7,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetINOVATIVECOMMUNITIES.ORG FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUMOJA OPERATION COMPASSION SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD CENTS FOR CHANGE — C$5,500 over 3y, 73% of budgetFAMILIES FOR CHILDREN — C$4,560 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWONDERGUL WORLD OF BOOKS — C$4,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetSTEP INTERNATIONAL — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHECK YOUR HEAD : THE YOUTH GLOBAL EDUCATION NETWORK — C$4,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING FOR HUMANITY — C$3,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDECODA LITERARY FOUNDATION — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBETTY HUFF THEATRE GROUP — C$3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCODEVELOPMENT CANADA — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH SHORE CRISIS SERVICES SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP : IMAGINE SCHOOL — C$2,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInto All the World Inc — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF OAXACA — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHREE RIVERS UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNITEO AFRICA SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN MISSIONARY ALLIANCE IN CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRETECH — C$1,800 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREAL HUMANITARIAN — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUATEMALA STOVE PROJECT — C$1,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPLANTING SEEDS — C$1,650 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUGGS CANADA — C$1,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetThe Board of Education of SD #75/Deroche Elementary — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS ALLEVIATING POVERTY THROUGH EDUCATION — C$1,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIGHT & SALT MINISTRIES NICARAGUA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJ.R. BURNETT SECONDARY SCHOOL ROBOTICS TEAM — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDARE — C$1,000 over 1y, 4.9% 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…Construction Foundati…Telus Employees Chari…Nicola Wealth Private…The Hamber FoundationCwb Welding FoundationVancouver FoundationAnglican Synod of the…Elementary Teachers' …Schein FoundationUnited Way British Co…Unifor Social Justice…
Vancity Community FoundationBC32.4× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) Society · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Cwb Welding Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fund · Schein Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor

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 78 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under support of schools and education.

Source object 861602126:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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