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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Senft Family Foundation

We support registered charities and qualified donees by making monetary grants toward programs in the following key categories: healthcare education thought leadership youth and local arts culture & community.

C$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$198k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$161k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.3M
C$25,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,008,795
BC CANCERC$271,213
COLLINGWOOD SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$61,250
LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$35,000
THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERYC$33,333
YORK HOUSE SCHOOL SOCIETYC$25,000
ROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY CANADAC$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$15,000
LOOKING GLASS FOUNDATIONC$10,000
LITTLE WARRIORSC$10,000
LAKE OF THE WOODS DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
BALMORAL HALL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC.C$10,000
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.2M · 26 repeat orgsC$137k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
14

Total granted

C$7.2M
C$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+62%

Still filing today

88%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$41k 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

  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$2.7M · revenue +34%
  • LG
    LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +45%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$1.1M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TC
    TIDES CANADA INITIATIVES SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$30k
  • LO
    LAKE OF THE WOODS CONCERT GROUPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$13k · revenue +283% · 60% of their budget
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charitiesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +83%

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
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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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
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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5
Langara College Foundation

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

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6
The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc

The main purpose of the foundation is to raise and distribute funds for the advancement of knowledge and care in the fields of child health research as well as to provide equipment and fund programs at the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg.…

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7
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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8
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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9
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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10
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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11
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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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 Lions Gate Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rare Trait Hope Society. 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

42 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. 42 of the 45 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,689,687 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,270,772 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$1,144,168 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBC CANCER — C$623,213 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$359,132 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$150,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$127,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FRASER INSITUTE — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY — C$99,999 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYORK HOUSE SCHOOL — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY CANADA — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE OF THE WOODS DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LAKE OF THE WOODS MUSEUM — C$50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBALMORAL HALL-SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — C$34,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER CANADA — C$32,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF BC — C$29,916 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTAKE PRIDE WINNIPEG INC. — C$27,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLUBOV SSMI FOUNDATION INC. — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLITTLE WARRIORS — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE OF THE WOODS CONCERT GROUP — C$12,500 over 1y, 60% of budgetZAJAC RANCH SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOOKING GLASS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALMORAL HALL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC. — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT HUMANITY CANADA HABITAT POUR — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRARE TRAIT HOPE SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON — C$5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENORA & LAKE OF THE WOODS REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPALS AUTISM SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEARNING BUDDIES NETWORK OF THE LOWER-MAINLAND SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS SOCIETY — C$4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDEBRA CANADA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF B.C LOWER MAINLAND — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HAVEN WOMEN'S SHELTER SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADA CHARITY PARTNERS (ISRAEL GIVES) — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY TRANSITION SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. PAUL'S HIGH SCHOOL INC. — C$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…Giftpact Foundation I…Price Family Foundati…The Asper FoundationThe Winnipeg Foundati…Wcpd FoundationThe Hamber FoundationThe Douglas Family Fo…TELUS Friendly Future…United Way British Co…Aqueduct FoundationRichardson Foundation…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC12.1× 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 · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Price Family Foundation Inc. · The Asper Foundation · The Winnipeg Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · The Douglas Family Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · United Way British Columbia · Aqueduct Foundation · Richardson Foundation Inc. /Fondation Richardson Inc.

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 45 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 786796482:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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