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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Robert H. Lee Foundation

It made gifts to qualified donees.

C$196k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$96k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
C$21,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$89k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
VANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATIONC$45,000
CHIMP: CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION (CANADA)C$21,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$15,000
FRASER INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONC$15,000
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.0M · 8 repeat orgsC$58k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +142% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

C$6.0M
C$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+142%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • VC
    VANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$3.3M · revenue +285% · 40% of their budget
  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$915k · revenue +12%
  • YO
    YMCA of Greater Vancouver
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$521k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • TC
    Trans Canada Trail
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue -79%
  • OW
    OCEAN WISE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue -53%
  • SA
    Salvation Armygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +482%

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
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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2
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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3
Langara College Foundation

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

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4
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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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
Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation
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7
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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8
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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9
British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation

The bcit foundation raises funds to further the goals and objectives of british columbia institute of technology ('bcit') for the development and expansion of the education programs services capital projects and other initiatives as…

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10
Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation
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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St. David's United Church. 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

14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
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 budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION — C$3,308,334 over 4y, 40% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$915,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetYMCA of Greater Vancouver — C$521,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUBC — C$519,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHIMP: CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION — C$515,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRASER INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJunior Achievment of BC — C$43,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTrans Canada Trail — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN WISE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSalvation Army — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetST DAVID'S UNITED CHURCH — C$7,700 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBC CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool district 45 West Vancouver — C$1,000 over 1y, 5.5% 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.

Vancouver FoundationThe Tong and Geraldin…Raymond James Canada …United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Aqueduct FoundationBc Government Employe…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…
Vancouver FoundationBC8.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancouver Foundation · The Tong and Geraldine Louie Family Fondation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 14 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 789062692:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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