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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Riley Foundation

Scholarships bursaries awards

C$267k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$86k
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$1k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$130k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$136k
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vancouver Board of Parks and RecreationC$86,171
Little Bits Therapeutic Riding AssociationC$50,000
Covenant House VancouverC$25,000
Vancouver Police FoundationC$25,000
The Greater Vancouver Food BankC$20,000
West Point Grey Academy FoundationC$20,000
Ballet BCC$20,000
Vancouver Board of EducationC$10,000
Les Ailes de L'Esperance (Quebec) Inc.C$10,000
BC Childrens Hospital FoundationC$1,000
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 9 repeat orgsC$173k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+34%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • WP
    West Point Grey Academy
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$178k · revenue +34%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    2× · 2020–2022 · C$100k · revenue +26%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$75k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • NW
    NICOLA WEALTH PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$35k · revenue +34%
  • UO
    University of British Columbia
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k
  • AU
    ARTS UMBRELLA GRANVILLE ISLAND
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -1%

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
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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3
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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4
Duke of Edinburgh's Award in Canada (Bc & Yukon Division)

To contribute to the development of physical and cultural attributes in young canadians between the ages of 14 and 25

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5
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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6
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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7
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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8
Variety - the Children's Charity of Bc

Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations. Variety funds renovations equipment…

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9
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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10
The Board of Education of School District No. 45 (West Vancouver)

Scholarships bursaries awards.

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11
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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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 British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nicola Wealth Private Giving 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
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 budgetWE CHARITY — C$700,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWest Point Grey Academy — C$177,650 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver) — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD — C$50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLittle Bits Therapeutic Riding Association — C$50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBallet BC — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNICOLA WEALTH PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Police Foundation — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Greater Vancouver Food Bank — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA GRANVILLE ISLAND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLes Ailes de L'Esperance (Quebec) Inc. — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDr. Peter Aids Foundation — C$1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC Childrens Hospital Foundation — C$1,000 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.

Zlc FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Telus Employees Chari…Hardy Family Foundati…The McLean McCuaig Fo…Nicola Wealth Private…R & J Stern Family Fo…Michael and Inna O'Br…United Way British Co…The Highbury Foundati…Diamond FoundationVancouver Foundation
Zlc FoundationBC9.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Hardy Family Foundation · The McLean McCuaig Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · R & J Stern Family Foundation · Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The Highbury Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Vancouver 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 18 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 2024-12-31, 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 849346382:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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