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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Raven Foundation

Hold and invest funds and property for the purpose of disbursing exclusively to 'qualified donees'.

C$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$53k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k15 grants · C$42k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$53k
C$5,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATIONC$53,333
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONTC$25,000
YWCAC$10,000
THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTREC$10,000
POUR 3 POINTSC$10,000
WHISTLER SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETYC$5,000
PARKINSON SOCIETY BRITISH COLUMBIAC$5,000
PACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTEC$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$5,000
CONVENANT HOUSEC$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WHISTLERC$5,000
THE ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE SOCIETYC$3,500
WHISTLER ADAPTIVE SPORTSC$2,000
AFRICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK BOX SOCIETYC$2,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$1,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 90% of grant dollars (C$1.1M). The 10% that went abroad (C$131k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 10% of all-years giving (C$131k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$62k · 5 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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$1.1M · 32 repeat orgsC$129k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
15

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+27%

Still filing today

97%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k 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

  • BS
    BC SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$209k · revenue +22%
  • YM
    YWCA METRO VANCOUVER
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$70k · revenue +69%
  • TD
    THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$66k · revenue +314%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF MONTREAL WEST
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k
  • WH
    WHISTLER HEALTCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue -78%
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
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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2
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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3
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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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
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
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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11
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

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

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Yo Bro Yo Girl Youth Initiative Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
37/47
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 budgetBC SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATION — C$208,666 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetROOM TO READ CANADA — C$199,665 over 6y, 16% of budgetYWCA METRO VANCOUVER — C$70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$66,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWHISTLER ADAPTIVE SPORTS — C$43,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetWHISTLER SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY — C$42,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$41,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$36,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW REFUGEE SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTER OF BRITISH — C$26,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WHISTLER — C$25,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWHISTLER BLACKCOMB FOUNDATION SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWHISTLER HEALTCARE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTIDES CANADA FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAFRICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK BOX SOCIETY — C$17,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetYMCA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE SOCIETY — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR MALE SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPOUR 3 POINTS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Hearing and Speech Centre of BC Inc. — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVariety - The Children's Charity of BC — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChan Family Foundation — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank Society — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEastside Movement for Business and Economic Renewal Society — C$6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVECLEAR FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYO BRO YO GIRLS YOUTH INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WAR AMPUTATIONS OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Church of Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER POPPY FUND COMMITTEE — C$5,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN ALOPECIA AREATA FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBC Center for Ability — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWest Vancouver Marine Rescue Society — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSearch & Rescue Society of BC — C$2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs Foundation — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetToronto Foundation — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION — C$1,000 over 2y, 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Ocean Wise Conservati…The Connor Clark & L…Bc Government Employe…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Vancouver FoundationZlc FoundationLrj Charitable Founda…Diamond FoundationJewish Federation of …
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC17.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Lrj Charitable Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia

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 49 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 2024-05-31, 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 865119127:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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