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West Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Skills for Hope Foundation

SKILLS FOR HOPE FOUNDATION is dedicated to offering post-secondary scholarships skills development programs and educational resources to empower individuals to achieve their academic vocational and employment aspirations fostering community engagement.

C$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$208k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONC$9,000
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$7,750
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$6,000
CAMOSUN COLLEGEC$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$2,250
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF FRASER VALLEYC$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWAC$2,000
KWANTLEN PLOYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$2,000
CAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIAC$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSORC$1,250
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBAC$1,000
TRENT UNIVERSITYC$1,000
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$158k · 17 repeat orgsC$49k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
17

Total granted

C$158k
C$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$37k · revenue +55%
  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$25k · revenue +82%
  • SF
    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$23k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue -4%
  • PS
    PACIFIC SPINE RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$6k
  • VS
    VSO SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue +55%

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 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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2
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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3
University of Prince Edward Island

Post-Secondary Education

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4
Trinity Western University

Founded in 1962 Trinity Western University is a global Christian liberal arts university. We are dedicated to equipping students to discover meaningful connections between career life and the needs of the world. Drawing upon the riches of…

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5
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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6
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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7
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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8
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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9
Universite Concordia

The main mission of the University is to provide post-secondary and graduate education. It engages in research public services and assists students faculties and researchers. Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science Gina Cody…

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10
The University of Western Ontario

Post secondary research and education

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11
Lakehead University

University - Post Secondary Education and Research

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12
The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

The humber college institute of technology and advanced learning is a publicly assisted polytechnic educational institution that offers bachelor degrees diplomas and postgraduate certificates in more than 220 full-time programs and over…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Fraser Valley and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Spine Research & Education 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

47 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. 47 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
31/47
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$37,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION — C$25,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$22,975 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$14,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Community College Foundation — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMOSUN COLLEGE — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$3,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVSO SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF FRASER VALLEY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENECA COLLEGE — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNIC — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMPSON RIVER UNIVERSITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KING'S UNIVERSITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANGARA COLLEGE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Island University — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROCK UNIVERSITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOS Children's Village Canada/SOS Villages d'enfants Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLions Gate Hospital Foundation — C$971 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHIDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF BC — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS — C$50 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.

The Kpmg Foundation/L…Cwb Welding FoundationEnactus CanadaCentral Okanagan Burs…Vancity Community Fou…Credit Union Foundati…Bowen Island Communit…Walker Wood FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Northwestern Alberta …Vancouver FoundationThe Leonard Foundation
The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation KpmgON15.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Cwb Welding Foundation · Enactus Canada · Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society · Vancity Community Foundation · Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia · Bowen Island Community Foundation · Walker Wood Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Northwestern Alberta Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Leonard 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 48 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 support of schools and education.

Source object 823315965:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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