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Soh Lim Poh Paul Foundation

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C$37k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$22k
C$1,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$329k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PO LAM BUDDHIST ASSOCIATIONC$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$10,000
GREATER VANCOUVERC$5,000
FIRST UNITEDC$5,000
CHUNG WAH TAO TAK TONG (B.C.) SOCIETYC$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$1,000
ROYAL CANADIAN MARINE SEARCH & RESCUEC$1,000
THE INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST SOCIETYC$650
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$400
THE INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST SOCIETYC$150
THE TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONC$100
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 85% of grant dollars (C$186k). The 15% that went abroad (C$34k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 15% of all-years giving (C$34k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$189k · 12 repeat orgsC$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

C$189k
C$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+13%

Still filing today

83%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$72k · revenue +43%
  • GV
    Greater Vancouver Food Bank
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$32k · revenue +235%
  • IB
    International Buddhist Society
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$30k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • LY
    Ling Yen Mountain Temple
    one grant, 2017 · C$13k
  • UO
    University of British Columbia
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k
  • TT
    THE THREE LINKS CARE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$4k · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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.

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The Tibetan Cultural Society of British Columbia
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2
Vancouver Yuan Yung Buddhism Centre Society

To maintain a place of worship and to preach the spirit of buddhism

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3
Vajrayana Buddhism Association of B.C.

Offer buddhism teaching/meditation classes for buddhism philosophy & religion advancment

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4
The Jetavana Buddhist Society of Vancouver
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5
Chan Buddhist Society of Canada
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6
Zenwest Buddhist Society

Zenwest oversees zen buddhist practice in the community and is available on line (zenwest.ca and on zoom) and in-person on campus programs at the university of victoria.

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7
Victoria Buddhist Dharma Society - Sakya Thubten Kunga Choling
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8
Tibetan Bon Buddhist Society

We offer Online programs : Meditation Practice Discussion Groups Dharma Classes Lectures Retreats and workshops We conduct In-Person Meditation Practice Dharma Classes Retreats and workshops Gatherings Community service and events We…

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9
Western Buddhist Research Institute of British Columbia

Organizing dharma instruction sessions for monks and nuns hosting regular sunday services open to the public and participating in ceremonies and events organized by other buddhist organizations whenever available

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10
Burmese Buddhist Society Bc

Monthly buddhist events - seniors program - youth program

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11
British Columbia Insight Meditation Society

We publish a newsletter monthly. We offer introductory meditation classes and dharma courses 6-10 times per year. We hold meditation groups weekly. We offer online or in-person day-long or weekend non-residential retreats 7-9 times per…

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12
Ptt Buddhist Society
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Po Lam Buddhist Association and the most unlike its peers is The Terry Fox Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$72,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank — C$32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Buddhist Society — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPO LAM BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION — C$17,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFIRST UNITED — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPalpung Phende Kunkyab Foundation — C$6,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSAN HUI BUDDHIST SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHUNG WAH TAO TAK TONG (B.C.) SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE THREE LINKS CARE SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN MARINE SEARCH & RESCUE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$709 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$100 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.

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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 19 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 752030320:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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