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Burnaby, BC · Charitable organization

Simon Fraser University

Sfu offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the faculties of applied science arts and social services beedie school of business education environment health sciences sciences and communication arts and technology.

C$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$5k
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.

C$2,300
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TSLEIL-WAUTUTH NATIONC$5,000
MOTHERS MATTER CENTREC$2,300
INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETYC$1,540
THE NBCC FOUNDATION INC.C$125
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.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5k · 3 repeat orgsC$29k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
25

Total granted

C$5k
C$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-14%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k 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

  • MM
    MOTHERS MATTER CENTRE
    2× · 2017–2024 · C$3k · revenue +146%
  • SC
    SURREY CHRISTMAS BUREAU
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$1k · revenue -14%
  • LM
    LOWER MAINLAND CHRISTMAS BUREAU
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$1k · revenue -22%

Funded once

  • NE
    Native Education Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +44%
  • CC
    Canadian Council for Aboriginal Businessgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +166%
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue -47%

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
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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2
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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3
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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4
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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5
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Society Branch

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation services. The Centre investigates and evaluates the occurrence…

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6
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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7
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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8
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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9
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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10
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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11
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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12
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division and the most unlike its peers is Casa 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

29 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. 29 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
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 budgetNative Education College — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Council for Aboriginal Business — C$4,668 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$2,728 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS MATTER CENTRE — C$2,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY CHRISTMAS BUREAU — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER MAINLAND CHRISTMAS BUREAU — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA STRAIT ALLIANCE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAL-MUSTAFA ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION — C$650 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPo Lam Buddhist Association — C$448 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jack Webster Foundation — C$300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPTIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY SOCIETY — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NBCC FOUNDATION INC. — C$125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGWYNNE VAUGHAN PARK SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Lady of Guadalupe Tonantzin Community Society — C$75 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKootenay Boundary Regional Hospital and Health Foundation — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FOUNDATION — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Hospice Society — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ARTS SOCIETY — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake a Wish Foundation of Canada — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBCSPCA — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTER-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$25 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.

United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Bc Government Employe…North Family Foundati…Vancouver FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…The Hamber FoundationTelus Employees Chari…Aqueduct FoundationFirst West FoundationLohn Foundation
United Way British ColumbiaBC11.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · North Family Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Hamber Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Aqueduct Foundation · First West Foundation · Lohn 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 31 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Source object 118520725:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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