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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Spencercreo Foundation

The foundation grants to qualified donees in its field of interest and it currently receiving funding from vancouver coastal health to provide wrap around support services in vancouver's downtown east side.

C$541k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$124k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$57k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$160k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$324k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$124,173
CULTIVATE CANADA SOCIETYC$50,000
YO BRO YOUTH INITIATIVE SOCIETYC$50,000
NEIL SQUIRE SOCIETYC$50,000
MOM 2 MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVEC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - LEARNING EXCHANGEC$35,000
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$30,000
SCIENCE WORLDC$25,000
ZERO CEILING SOCIETYC$25,000
WEST SIDE FAMILY PLACE SOCIETYC$15,000
BC MARINE TRAILS NETWORKC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$10,000
ATHLETICS FOR KIDSC$10,000
CONVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$9,192
ST PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$8,750
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.9M · 50 repeat orgsC$163k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
28

Total granted

C$3.9M
C$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+67%

Still filing today

96%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • FS
    Family Services of Greater Vancouver
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$714k · revenue +22%
  • CC
    CULTIVATE CANADA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$477k · revenue +22%
  • UO
    University of British Columbia
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$379k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • VF
    Vancouver Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$59k · revenue +99%
  • VC
    VANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$27k · revenue +39%
  • UW
    United Way of the Lower Mainlandgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +27%

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
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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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
Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland

Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…

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4
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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5
Nutritionlink Services Society

Nutritionlink services society (nls) promotes and enhances eating choices for people and communities in british columbia. nls works in collaboration with others to enhance individuals' ability to make healthy food choices. nls supports the…

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6
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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7
Ymca Bc

'We are a charity dedicated to building healthy communities by fostering a sense of belonging for all. By creating safe and welcoming spaces that serve people of all ages backgrounds and abilities the YMCA BC is committed to ensuring…

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8
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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9
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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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
Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch

1) mental health program development & delivery-we help build mental health skills and resilience for individuals. this includes parent support employment services crisis lines youth programs and support groups. 2) mental health education…

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12
Citystudio Vancouver Society

Citystudio vancouver program: innovation hub that coordinates projects between the city of vancouver and local post-secondary institutions by bringing together city staff students faculty and community to co create experimental projects…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Neil Squire 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

79 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. 79 of the 84 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
65/79
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 budgetFamily Services of Greater Vancouver — C$713,799 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCULTIVATE CANADA — C$476,874 over 7y, 19% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$378,894 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNeil Squire Society — C$350,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetYO BRO YOUTH INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$350,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetMOM 2 MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVE — C$200,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$193,502 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$130,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetZERO CEILING SOCIETY — C$111,000 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetA.S.T.C. SCIENCE WORLD SOCIETY — C$105,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KETTLE SOCIETY — C$90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetATIRA DEVELOPMENT — C$65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE STREET — C$60,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetVancouver Foundation — C$59,004 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATION — C$48,750 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBETTER LIFE FOUNDATION — C$46,500 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetBC MARINE TRAILS — C$45,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetScience World British Columbia — C$45,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCANADIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWEST SIDE FAMILY PLACE SOCIETY — C$38,500 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.41 (BURNABY) — C$34,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNETWORK OF INNER CITY COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$34,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetVancouver Opera Association — C$32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBreakfast Club — C$32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club of BC Foundation — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$26,927 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT #37 (DELTA) — C$20,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetHIVES FOR HUMANITY — C$19,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION FRUIT SOCIETY — C$19,066 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetDUDES CLUB SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSWAN VANCOUVER SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Way of the Lower Mainland — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATHLETICS FOR KIDS — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPIVOT LEGAL SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetST PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$8,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISH DROP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF B.C. — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Parliament of BC Allumni Society — C$7,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGROWING CHEFS SOCIETY — C$7,200 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBC Cander Foundation — C$6,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER TRAIL COMMUNITY SKILLS CENTRE — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$4,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetKidsafe — C$3,900 over 3y, 0.2% 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.

Spencercreo Finca Fou…Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…The Hamber FoundationDiamond FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Vancouver FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…B.C. Social Venture P…The Houssian Foundati…Makeway Foundation
Spencercreo Finca FoundationBC29.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spencercreo Finca Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The Hamber Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Vancouver Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation · The Houssian Foundation · Makeway 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 84 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 852846203:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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