Vancouver, BC · Private foundation
Red Chair Foundation
During the year the charity donated $218 500 to qualified donees throughout canada to assist them in supporting the following initiatives: education and health of girls and women in canada and internationally efforts to slow the impact of climate change and the development of young people in africa to become effective health managers.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$95k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | C$70,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA | C$53,500 |
| TOSTAN CANADA INC. | C$30,000 |
| ONE GIRL CAN SOCIETY | C$25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA | C$20,000 |
| EQUALITY FUND FONDS ÉGALITÉ | C$10,000 |
| ACADEMICS WITHOUT BORDERS | C$10,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against -41% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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
- CACHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA2× · 2023–2024 · C$75k · revenue +24%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA3× · 2022–2024 · C$60k · revenue +3%
- EFEQUALITY FUND FONDS ÉGALITÉ3× · 2022–2024 · C$30k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- TCTHE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -41%
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.
1. advancing education in sub-saharan africa by: a) providing publicly available scholarships bursaries and other forms of needs based financial assistance to women and girls as well as men and boys to be used to support their education…
The foundation collaborates and partners with universities around the world to ensure marginalized young females primarily from the Global South in remote areas and in areas of conflict get access to post secondary education through…
Cameras For Girls pursues Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Africa using photography as our catalyst. We provide women who face gender-based barriers to employment with a camera to keep and a 4-phase photography storytelling and…
Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…
Education and literacy proprograms for women in nepal income generation projects for women in nepal scholarship
Fora: network for change is global network of young feminist changemakers. through our governance programming leadership development social impact initiatives and feminist research we make bold strategic investments in young women and…
The fondation's mission is to advance youth education and promote financial inclusion for financially disadvantaged persons and communities. with a focus on africa the foundation aims to expand access to learning employment…
The Equality Effect uses human rights law to achieve concrete change in the lives of women and girls in Ghana Kenya and Malawi - change that will improve the health safety and standard of living of women and girls. 16 Girls: the '160…
To distribute funding to organizations and universities for research in the field of women's sexual reproductive health.
Children Believe is a global charity dedicated to removing the barriers to education that steal children’s choices one by one until they have none. For sixty years the organization has brought together brave young dreamers caring…
Ongoing programs: the hunger project canada and in partnership with the global hunger project will carry out programs of the following regions: ending hunger in rural communities in africa india bangladesh mexico and peru through the…
The work of the international and social justice area is under the unbrella 'teachers action for learning' and subcategorized in three core areas of: 1) teachers' action for teaching (tat) focusing on professional development of educators…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Alberta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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: 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.