Vancouver, BC · Public foundation
Sam Sullivan Disability Foundation
The Disability Foundation supports individuals with disabilities by supporting and promoting programs that foster community engagement.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$90k
- C$50k–250k4 grants · C$371k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tetra Society of North America | C$152,584 |
| ConnecTra Society | C$86,508 |
| Vancouver Adapted Music Society | C$68,994 |
| Disabled Independent Gardeners Association | C$63,070 |
| Disabled Sailing Association of BC | C$47,372 |
| BC Mobility Opportunities Society | C$42,209 |
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.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- TSTetra Society of North America8× · 2017–2024 · C$719k · revenue +22% · 31% of their budget
- DIDISABLED INDEPENDENT GARDENERS ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$533k · revenue +322% · 85% of their budget
- BMBC MOBILITY OPPORTUNITIES SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · C$399k · revenue +24% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- ABAll Bodies Dance Projectone grant, 2017 · C$2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
6 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. 6 of the 7 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.
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.
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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.