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Richmond, BC · Charitable organization

Rick Hansen Foundation

The Rick Hansen Foundation (RHF) is dedicated to removing barriers to inclusion so that people with disabilities are thriving in an accessible inclusive and healthy world.

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$969k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$84k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$357k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$969k
C$59,931
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The University of British ColumbiaC$968,847
Individual grant recipientC$74,250
City of KelownaC$74,250
City of Prince GeorgeC$74,250
Resort Municipality of WhistlerC$74,250
Individual grant recipientC$59,931
City of Port MoodyC$36,450
Stony Brook FoundationC$27,740
Cariboo Foundation SocietyC$20,000
Individual grant recipientC$7,927
Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation SocietyC$2,000
Vancouver Adaptive Snow SportsC$1,233
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$31M
Ontario
C$425k
Alberta
C$207k
Manitoba
C$146k
Quebec
C$121k
Nova Scotia
C$107k
Yukon
C$94k
New Brunswick
C$50k
Saskatchewan
C$47k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$30k
Prince Edward Island
C$30k
Nunavut
C$27k
Northwest Territories
C$26k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$30M · 50 repeat orgsC$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
119

Total granted

C$30M
C$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+29%

Still filing today

72%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$367k 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

  • RH
    Rick Hansen Institute
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$16M · revenue +2% · 89% of their budget
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$9.8M · revenue +55%
  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$1.5M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • VI
    VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$192k · revenue +30%
  • YA
    Yukon Association for Community Livinggraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$71k · revenue +83%
  • VP
    VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · C$68k · revenue +21%

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
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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2
Steps Forward - Inclusive Post-Secondary Education Society

Inclusion staff support students with developmental disabilities studying in post secondary educational institutions in British Columbia to complete coursework be engaged in campus activities seek and retain employment and to be active in…

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3
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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4
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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5
Special Olympics British Columbia Society

Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…

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6
Developmental Disabilities Association of Vancouver-Richmond

Residential: 1. Community Apartment program - Independent living program providing personalized support in health financial management nutrition and relationship building. 2. Group homes - Professionally staffed residences with specialized…

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7
The Cascadia Society for Social Working

Cascadia owns and operates a not-for-profit society offering a community inclusion program for adults who are developmentally disabled as well as a residential life-sharing program. The Centre and office is located at 351 West 19th St in…

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8
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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9
Vancouver Island Autistic Homes Society

Residential care homes: in-house support programs; individualized day programs; and support for individuals who contract to support persons with disabilities in the individual's family home. Information referral and advocacy on autism…

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10
Simon Fraser University

Sfu offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the faculties of applied science arts and social services beedie school of business education environment health sciences sciences and communication arts and technology. the university…

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11
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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12
Posabilities Association of British Columbia

Services to persons with development disabilities and to their families: community inclusion - day support; employment-community based worked and work experience; home living-support to live independently living with caregive live in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inclusion Chilliwack Society and the most unlike its peers is Angus Reid Institute. 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

134 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. 134 of the 176 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/134
Grantees still filing
103/134
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRick Hansen Institute — C$16,484,219 over 5y, 89% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$9,750,895 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,469,515 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY — C$192,294 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRASER RIVER STURGEON CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$184,815 over 6y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING SOCIETY — C$107,495 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANGUS REID INSTITUTE — C$105,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY — C$73,844 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYukon Association for Community Living — C$70,808 over 1y, 11% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$67,984 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVictoria Disability Resource Centre — C$52,781 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSchool District No. 34 — C$43,077 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAGASSIZ-HARRISON COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$39,154 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAssociation Quebecoise de Viole Adaptee (A.Q.V.A.) — C$35,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetKOOTENAY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES — C$34,131 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOSAIC — C$33,637 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$32,738 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBC FOREST MUSEUM — C$32,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYMCA METRO VANCOUVER — C$31,758 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN STAGE CORPORATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBANFF CANMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE LONDON POTTERS GUILD — C$30,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetVariety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association — C$30,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSydenham Street United Church — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE VANIER COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetFriends of Laura Secord — C$30,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetOnoway and District Historical Guild — C$30,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetVECOVA CENTRE FOR DISABILITY SERVICES AND RESEARCH — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSurrey School District — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Elliott Community — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPembina Trails School Division — C$30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMilford Recreation Association — C$30,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetJohn McGivneyChildren's Centre — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRED DEER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetBURNABY ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY INCLUSION — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Newfoundland and Labrador — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetQEII HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$28,855 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEI AND MILTON WONG FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$28,674 over 1y, 84% of budgetCamp Kawartha Inc. — C$28,627 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSANTROPOL ROULANT — C$28,584 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNanaimo-Ladysmith School District — C$28,267 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY CENTRE CARE SOCIETY — C$27,449 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLE CENTRE MULTI-FUNCTIONNEL POUR LES PERSONNES HANDICAPPÉE — C$27,437 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetOPEN DOOR SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIETY — C$27,237 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRideau Valley Conservation Foundation — C$27,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

The Victoria Foundati…Vancity Community Fou…West Vancouver Commun…Construction Foundati…Pacific Salmon Founda…United Way British Co…First West FoundationUnited Way Southern V…Zlc FoundationVancouver FoundationAnglican Synod of the…The Federation of Com…
The Victoria FoundationBC13.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · West Vancouver Community Foundation · Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) Society · Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifique · United Way British Columbia · First West Foundation · United Way Southern Vancouver Island · Zlc Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · The Federation of Community Social Services Society 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 176 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under supportive health care.

Source object 107659427:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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