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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Raindrop Foundation

Evaluate new and old requests for funding from charitable organizations.

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.0M
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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$125k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.0M
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Salvation Army - BC DivisionC$1,020,000
BC Cancer FoundationC$100,000
Union Gospel MissionC$25,000
change the world foundationC$25,000
Bill Reid FoundationC$25,000
Greater Vancouver Food BankC$15,000
Covenant House VancouverC$15,000
Audain Art Museum FoundationC$10,000
Arthritis Research CanadaC$10,000
Nature Conservancy of CanadaC$5,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.0M · 12 repeat orgsC$345k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

C$3.0M
C$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+87%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k 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

  • TS
    The Salvation Army - BC Division
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +102%
  • UG
    Union Gospel Mission
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$130k · revenue +127%
  • CH
    Covenant House Vancouver
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$110k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • VU
    VHG & UBC Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue +43%
  • TN
    The Nature Trust of BCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +146%
  • CC
    Canadian Constitution Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue -33%

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
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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3
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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4
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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5
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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6
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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7
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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8
Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia

Through our programs and activities we (a) encourage British Columbians to participate in outdoor recreation (b) promote the safe and responsible use of the outdoors through education programs promoting safety and outdoor ethics (c)…

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9
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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10
Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation

Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation is an independent charity that supports Metro Vancouver Regional Parks. With the number of park visitors rapidly rising we work to fill the gaps in public funding to ensure our parks remain…

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11
Federation of British Columbia Naturalists

Operating under the name BC Nature The Federation of British Columbia Naturalists is the umbrella organization supporting over 53 local natural history organizations located throughout British Columbia. Ongoing programs include: i)…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change the World Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Society for the Education of Children With Specific Learning Disabilities. 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

21 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. 21 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Salvation Army - BC Division — C$2,140,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission — C$130,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$110,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWhistler Institute Learning Centre — C$110,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetOcean Wise Conservation Association — C$75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVHG & UBC Hospital Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Nature Trust of BC — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCanadian Constitution Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAudain Art Museum Foundation — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKenneth Gordon Maplewood School — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetArthritis Research Canada — C$40,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNature Conservancy Canada — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Teams Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetchange the world foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBill Reid Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetQuest Outreach Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Life of Canada — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOdd Squad Productions Society — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVancouver Botanical Gardens Association — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationDiamond FoundationAqueduct FoundationLohn FoundationThe Hamber FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…Canada GivesVancity Community Fou…Armstrong Family Foun…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC12.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Lohn Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Canada Gives · Vancity Community Foundation · Armstrong Family 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 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 2024-02-28, 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 890975774:2024-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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