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Surrey, BC · Private foundation

Spence Family Foundation

The foundation makes donations to qualified registered charities as defined by canada revenue agency.

C$413k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$220k
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$10k12 grants · C$34k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$54k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$325k
C$4,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SURREY FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$220,000
PEACH ARCH HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$105,000
ROTARY CLUB OF SUMMERLANDC$25,000
ABRAHAM'S LODGE & CARE SOCIETYC$15,000
CMOLIK FOUNDATIONC$14,000
THE DUGOUT DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETYC$5,000
EDEN GARDENSC$5,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETYC$4,000
AFRICAN CANADIAN CONTINUING EDUCATION SOCIETYC$4,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$3,000
SURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$3,000
LOOKING GLASS FOUNDATIONC$3,000
SURREY-NORTH DELTA MEALS ON WHEELSC$2,000
KNOWLEDGE NETWORK TVC$2,000
SOUTH OKANAGAN WOMEN IN NEED SOCIETYC$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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.7M · 16 repeat orgsC$49k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

C$2.7M
C$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+133%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$34k 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

  • PA
    PEACH ARCH HOSPITAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue +59%
  • SF
    SURREY FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$585k · revenue +49%
  • TC
    THE CMOILK FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$112k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • PC
    Pacific Central Family Service Association
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k
  • AF
    ALEXANDRA FOUNDATION FOR NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$4k · revenue +133%
  • BB
    BACKPACK BUDDIESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue +338%

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
Surrey Food Bank Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to provide support and assistance for the programs and operations of the surrey food bank society.

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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
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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4
Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society

We raise funds from donors for the purpose of financing programs and projects that address homelessness. we conduct and provide assistance to homelessness and housing initiatives programs projects support services and special needs…

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5
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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6
Saanich Peninsula Community Foundation

The foundation maintains a permanent endowment fund (the majority of the fund is maintained at the victoria foundation and the vancouver foundation) and annually makes grants from the investment earnings of the endowment fund to charitable…

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7
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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8
Langara College Foundation

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

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9
B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation

The foundation provides financial and human resources to charitable not for profit groups focused on community service. the foundation provides grants to qualified donees that provide services in the areas of: social services education and…

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10
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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11
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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12
Squamish Community Foundation

Issuing grants to meet the needs of eligible community donees through income generated from investments and donations.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central City Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Olive Branch Playground Builders 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

25 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. 25 of the 26 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)
25/25
Grantees still filing
13/25
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 budgetPEACH ARCH HOSPITAL — C$1,723,036 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetSURREY FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$585,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHE CMOILK FOUNDATION — C$112,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetAbraham's Lodge — C$106,100 over 8y, 17% of budgetAfrican Canadian Continuing Education Society — C$32,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$26,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SUMMERLAND — C$25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE DUGOUT DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$21,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPlayground Builders — C$18,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetSURREY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOOKING GLASS FOUNDATION — C$17,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKNOWLEDGE NETWORK TV — C$13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Foundation — C$12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Surrey Independant School Society — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN GARDENS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDRA FOUNDATION FOR NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES — C$4,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSURREY-NORTH DELTA MEALS ON WHEELS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH OKANAGAN WOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOVERDALE COMMUNITY KITCHEN — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANAIMO FOUNDATION - COCO CAFE — 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…United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Vancouver FoundationFirst West FoundationRaymond James Canada …Ocean Park FoundationSurreycares Community…Bc Government Employe…Telus Employees Chari…Ocean Wise Conservati…Zlc Foundation
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC12.5× 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 · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · First West Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Ocean Park Foundation · Surreycares Community Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Zlc 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 26 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 852510668:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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