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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Rick and Sandy Young Foundation

Directors have attended charitable events.

C$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$12,000
WIGS FOR KIDS BCC$10,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$10,000
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$135k · 5 repeat orgsC$40k 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 +35% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

C$135k
C$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k 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

  • GV
    GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$37k · revenue +28%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$37k · revenue +42%
  • AR
    AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY
    3× · 2019–2023 · C$27k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS OF GREATER VANCOUVER
    one grant, 2022 · C$7k · revenue +7%
  • TL
    The Lipstick Project Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k
  • BS
    BC SPCAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · 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
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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2
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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3
Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland

Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…

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4
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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5
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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6
Canuck Place Children's Hospice

Canuck Place Children’s Hospice is British Columbia and the Yukon’s pediatric palliative care program. Over 920 children living with life-threatening illnesses and families from five provincial health regions receive Canuck Place inpatient…

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7
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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8
United Way British Columbia

Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province. We support healthy caring and inclusive communities by strengthening vital connections to help ensure the health…

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9
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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10
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Society Branch

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation services. The Centre investigates and evaluates the occurrence…

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is The Lipstick Project Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
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 budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$37,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$37,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$27,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIGS FOR KIDS BC — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBC SPCA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH AND HOME CARE SOCIETY OF BC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia — C$5,000 over 1y, 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.

United Way British Co…Aqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationBenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Strategic Charitable …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way British ColumbiaBC8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (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.

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 12 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 2024-01-31, 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 800456287:2024-01-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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