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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Schmelke Family Charitable Foundation

C$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$65k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
C$30,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$100,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$30,000
VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETYC$20,000
COAST MENTAL HEALTH 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$719k · 10 repeat orgsC$348k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +126% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

C$719k
C$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+126%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$245k · revenue +46%
  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA GUIDE DOG SERVICES
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$100k · revenue +126%
  • CM
    COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$89k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$170k · revenue +12%
  • OS
    ODD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +104%
  • KT
    KELOWNA TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH LEGACY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$16k · revenue +51%

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
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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7
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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8
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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9
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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10
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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11
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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12
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society and the most unlike its peers is Music Heals Charitable 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

18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
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 budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$245,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$170,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA GUIDE DOG SERVICES — C$100,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$88,850 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY — C$70,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetBABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetMOM TO MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetCLICK-CONTRIBUTING TO LIVES OF INNER CITY KIDS SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR ABILITY FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetODD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD — C$24,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA SCORES VANCOUVER — C$20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetKELOWNA TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH LEGACY FOUNDATION — C$15,549 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$2,500 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationDiamond FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationFace the World Founda…Ocean Wise Conservati…Vancity Community Fou…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Raymond James Canada …Canada GivesAqueduct Foundation
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC12.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Diamond Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Face the World Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Vancity Community Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Canada Gives · Aqueduct 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 717231526:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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