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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Seedlings Foundation

We provide grants to local initiatives that focus on social programming the arts and environmental organizations.

C$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$26k
  • C$10k–50k41 grants · C$879k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.0M
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$514k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
LUMARAC$35,000
CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICEC$30,000
SHELTER MOVERS VANCOUVERC$30,000
BACKPACK BUDDIESC$30,000
FIRST UNITED LEGAL ADVOCACYC$25,000
AUNT LEAH'S PLACEC$25,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$25,000
UBC DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI ENGAGEMENTC$25,000
ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BCC$25,000
ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES BCC$25,000
VANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS SOCIETYC$25,000
WHAT IF (INDIV. FUNDING RESOURCE)C$25,000
THE YMCA OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$25,000
PACIFICA TREATMENT CENTREC$25,000
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.3M · 42 repeat orgsC$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
17

Total granted

C$3.3M
C$414k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.3M 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

  • SJ
    SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$183k · revenue +31%
  • KP
    KidSafe Project Society
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$165k · revenue +52%
  • HA
    Health Arts Society
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$163k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • PO
    PARISH OF ST. MARY'S (KERRISDALE)
    one grant, 2018 · C$80k · revenue +10%
  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue -34%
  • PI
    Pink Ink Theatre Productions (Pi Theatre)
    one grant, 2017 · C$30k · revenue -25%

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
Story Studio Writing Society

Story Studio is an award-winning BC-based charity that inspires educates and empowers youth to be great storytellers transforming lives and strengthening communities. The charity supports the well-being of children youth and families…

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2
Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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3
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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4
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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5
United Way British Columbia

Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province. We support healthy caring and inclusive communities by strengthening vital connections to help ensure the health…

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6
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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7
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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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
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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10
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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11
Vancouver Youth Theatre Society

Charitable activities include ongoing programs that fulfill vyt's mission statement: a creative partnership between young actors and authors with adult theatre professionals co-creating plays from young peoples' ideas across kids' writes…

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12
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is What If 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

68 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. 68 of the 73 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
45/68
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 budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$182,600 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetKidSafe Project Society — C$165,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetHealth Arts Society — C$162,500 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST UNITED — C$140,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES — C$135,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetUBC DEPRESSION CLINIC — C$125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLYBURN FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$120,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE YMCA OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S SOCIETY — C$113,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS VANCOUVER — C$113,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTAKE A HIKE YOUTH AT RISK FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCanada Scores Vancouver - A Charitable Society — C$95,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetFRONTIER COLLEGE — C$93,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$83,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLUMARA — C$80,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetPARISH OF ST. MARY'S (KERRISDALE) — C$80,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetADOPTIVE FAMILIES BC — C$75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMusic on Main — C$75,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetEARTHWISE SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetST. PETER'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$66,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetVANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS SOCIETY — C$63,500 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$62,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WRITERS' EXCHANGE SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetWESTMINSTER HOUSE SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPacific Immigrant Resources Society — C$50,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBURNABY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHAT IF FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetKIDSTART (PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES) — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADAM'S APPLES — C$45,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES BC & YUKON — C$42,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF B.C. LOWER MAINLAND — C$41,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFRASER RIVER DISCOVERY CETNRE SOCITY — C$40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDREN — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES BC — C$39,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFICA TREATMENT CENTRE — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPink Ink Theatre Productions (Pi Theatre) — C$30,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetKINBRACE — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE WARRIERS — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The Hamber FoundationVancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationDiamond FoundationUnited Way British Co…Ocean Wise Conservati…Lohn FoundationVancouver FoundationBc Government Employe…Face the World Founda…Chris-Spencer Foundat…
The Hamber FoundationBC29.3× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Diamond Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Lohn Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Face the World Foundation · Chris-Spencer 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 73 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 2024-05-31, 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 119141547:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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