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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Sasamat Foundation

It made gifts to 'qualified donees'

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$136k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$425k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$850k
C$100,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN PROMISE MINISTRIES - PROMISE VANCOUVERC$300,000
CANADIAN BAPTIST MINISTRIESC$300,000
BURNABAS FAMILY MINISTRIESC$250,000
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP - PIONEER PACIFIC CAMPC$175,000
A ROCHA CANADAC$150,000
EMI CANADA - ENGINEERING MINISTRIES CANADAC$100,000
NEW BEGINNINGSC$42,000
CANASSIST AFRICAN RELIEFC$40,000
HARVEST PRISON MINISTRIESC$24,000
WRITERS EXCHANGEC$20,000
CANADA-AFRICA COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCEC$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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.8M · 21 repeat orgsC$996k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
10

Total granted

C$5.8M
C$896k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-2%

Still filing today

90%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100k 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

  • BF
    BURNABAS FAMILY MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +218%
  • CB
    CANADIAN BAPTIST MINISTRIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$925k · revenue +27%
  • UP
    URBAN PROMISE MINISTRIES - PROMISE VANCOUVER
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$565k · revenue +39% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • RC
    REGENT COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · C$250k · revenue -2%
  • RC
    REGENT COLLEGE FOUNDATION - ENDOWMENT FUND
    one grant, 2023 · C$250k · revenue 0%
  • BC
    BLOSSOMS CHARITABLE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue -74%

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
Greater Vancouver Youth for Christ

Youth work with marginalized young people to provide camps coaching mentoring youth programs bible studies counselling outdoor recreation support teen mothers & teen fathers drop in centers discipleship homeless and street youth…

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2
Covenant House Vancouver

Covenant House Vancouver offers a 24-hour crisis shelter a supported living program street outreach and drop-in service for youth aged at 16-24 who are homeless and at risk of homeless. Covenant House Vancouver supports young people by…

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3
Compassion Canada

Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…

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4
Association of Christian Ministries (Vancouver)

1. Holding conferences and training seminars. 2. Holding quarterly church conferences. 3. Distributing food and clothing to the needy. 4. Holding speaking engagements in various churches. 5. Holding city wide gatherings outreaches and…

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5
Great Commission Collective Canada

Planting churches training and coaching pastors training elders resourcing churches

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6
Bic Canada - Global

Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…

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7
Mennonite Central Committee (Mcc) British Columbia

Forwards funds to Mennonite Central Committee Canada to support international relief. Warehouse collects and ships clothing/blankets/food/medical supplies to Mennonite Central Committee Canada for forwarding to other countries. Partners…

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8
Christian Missions Resource Centre

Programs are active in peru guatemala colombia cuba and the philippines. work is carried out with local churches helping them physically and spiritually to develop their program which help needy individuals in their communities. in the…

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9
World Renew

World renew conducts disaster relief and community development programs in canada and throughout the world on behalf of the christian reformed church. activites include disaster response and development programs involving health literacy…

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10
Every Home for Christ International/Canada

Christian philanthropic work that provides: - Evangelism and discipleship strategies and resources for churches and individuals - Support for children in various nations

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11
Ambassadors for Christ in Canada

AFC provides ongoing support and training to the Christian student leaders of fellowships in local high schools colleges and universities. AFC organizes conference and special ministry events to reach out to the students on the campuses to…

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12
Hope Story

Working around the world hope story is a christian charity located in cambridge ontario with a mission to help vulnerable children access education health and discipleship through their local church. the in-country churches we partner with…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anhart 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

30 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. 30 of the 32 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBURNABAS FAMILY MINISTRIES — C$1,391,333 over 8y, 19% of budgetCANADIAN BAPTIST MINISTRIES — C$925,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetURBAN PROMISE MINISTRIES - PROMISE VANCOUVER — C$565,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetCANASSIST AFRICA — C$324,820 over 8y, 40% of budgetA ROCHA CANADA — C$300,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetREGENT COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND — C$250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS — C$228,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetCYRUS CENTRE — C$227,500 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetINTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP - PIONEER PACIFIC CAMP — C$225,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WRITERS' EXCHANGE SOCIETY — C$172,500 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetVancouver Urban Ministries — C$165,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetSOS CHILLRENS VILLAGE BC — C$160,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE — C$153,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAnhart Foundation — C$130,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetEMI CANADA - ENGINEERING MINISTRIES CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetBLOSSOMS CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetANHART COMMUNITY HOUSING — C$85,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSURREY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYoung Life — C$60,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSouth Fraser Pregnancy Options — C$60,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHARVEST PRISON MINISTRIES — C$59,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetNATIVE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP — C$50,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetCANADA-AFRICA COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE — C$33,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGrandview Calvary Baptist Church — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJOURNEY HOME — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNANAIMO LOAVES & FISHES FOOD BANK — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPeace Portal Alliance Church — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Blue Sea Philanthropy…Abundance CanadaRaymond James Canada …J & G Servant Foundat…Peace Portal Alliance…Telus Employees Chari…Vancouver FoundationFoursquare Gospel Chu…Vancity Community Fou…First West Foundation
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC11.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc. · Abundance Canada · Raymond James Canada Foundation · J & G Servant Foundation · Peace Portal Alliance Church of the Christian & Missionary Alliance Cdn Pacific District · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Vancouver Foundation · Foursquare Gospel Church of Canada · Vancity Community Foundation · First West 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 32 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 2024-08-31, 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 838468361:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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