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North Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Starfish Foundation

To apply the income and capital of the Trust exclusively for charitable purposes by distributing it to Qualified Donees as defined in the ITA of Canada.

C$287k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$59k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$222k
C$34,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Himalayan Life CanadaC$150,000
Together Instead Christian CommunityC$72,000
Capilano Christian Community SocietyC$34,000
Alpha Ministries CanadaC$25,000
Mercy Children SocietyC$5,000
MSC CanadaC$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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$694k · 5 repeat orgsC$284k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

C$694k
C$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+93%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$181k 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

  • HL
    Himalayan Life Canada
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$302k · revenue +127%
  • TI
    Together Instead Christian Community
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$212k · revenue +7% · 43% of their budget
  • CC
    Capilano Christian Community Society
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$83k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • DP
    Daybreak Point Bible Camp Society
    one grant, 2023 · C$60k · revenue +13%
  • HL
    HIMALAYAN LIFE CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue +93%
  • SM
    Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -9%

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.

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Going Beyond Missions

Missionary trainings On-line and On-site mission trips Church planting trainings

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2
Speak Life Global

To encourage teach and disciple the christian church around the world.

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3
Global Disciples Canada

We exist to preach and advance the teachings of the Christian faith and the religious tenets doctrines and observances by providing consultation instructional material curriculum development and best practices; and to propagate the…

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4
Prayer Current Christian Education and Missionary Society

We conduct prayer leadership training seminars workshops and conferences to teach and educate church leaders and lay leaders about Christian leadership and prayer leadership. We also publish books and training manuals for the same…

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5
Bridges Beyond International Ministries

Training qualified leaders from around world to effectively evangelize other national christians.

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6
Christ Care Ministry International

Programs are designed to preach teach and support an outreach initiative in accordance with the doctrines and principles of the Christian bible.

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7
Shepherd Ministries International

Developing the vision and mission of the society through the advancement and support of religious activities including video teaching podcasts and counseling and coaching.

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8
Global Leadership Network Canada

We conducted seminars and distributed resource materials for the purpose of encouraging church health and growth through evangelism.

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9
Kingdom Culture Ministries

Kingdom culture ministries is an international ministry that is dedicated to bringing the delivering power of jesus christ throughout north america and abroad. to that end ministry personnel preached the gospel in churches conferences &…

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10
Growing in Grace Ministries Canada

Conferences teaching bible study & counseling

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11
Ccl - Christian Communication Incorporated

Publication & distribution of religious materials. mission to china seminars. evangelistic meetings and camps theological workships and trainings.

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12
Canadian Biblical Counseling Coalition

To promote excellence and unity in biblical counseling through effective discipleship balanced and truthful application of biblical wisdom and compassionate and wise outreach for the hurting and lost. this is achieved through an annual…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Msc Canada and the most unlike its peers is Korle-Bu 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHimalayan Life Canada — C$302,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTogether Instead Christian Community — C$212,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetCapilano Christian Community Society — C$82,875 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetYouth Unlimited — C$67,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDaybreak Point Bible Camp Society — C$60,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetVision Ministries Canada — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHIMALAYAN LIFE CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAlpha Ministries Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSanctuary Mental Health Ministries — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKorle-Bu Foundation — C$7,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMercy Children Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMSC Canada — C$1,000 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…Tamara FoundationCanadian National Chr…BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps CanadonCanadian Online Givin…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC8.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Tamara Foundation · Canadian National Christian Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 13 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 732821723:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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