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Surrey, BC · Public foundation

Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society

Fundraising activities for hospital foundations and other charities school programs and bursaries disaster and hunger relief burn victims and service groups.

C$270k
Granted FY2023
35
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k23 grants · C$48k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$167k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$55k
C$2,621
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SURREY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$55,000
BC PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS BURN FUNDC$30,000
CENTRE FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENTC$21,700
SURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$20,000
VANCOUVER CANUCKS ALUMNI FOUNDATIONC$19,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$14,185
YMCA OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$12,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CANADAC$10,000
SOURCESC$10,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY OF CANADAC$10,000
BEAYOUTIFUL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CANUCKS AUTISM NETWORKC$10,000
VOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCEITYC$7,500
ATHLETICS FOR KIDSC$6,000
SURREY CHRISTMAS BUREAUC$5,000
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.9M · 45 repeat orgsC$399k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
30

Total granted

C$1.9M
C$381k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+53%

Still filing today

96%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23
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
    Peace Arch Hospital Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$380k · revenue +59%
  • YO
    YMCA OF GREATER VANCOUVER
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$348k · revenue +142%
  • SH
    SURREY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONS
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$292k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • SF
    Simon Fraser Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$210k · revenue +43%
  • SF
    SURREY FIRE FIGHTERS' NUTRITIONAL SNACK PROGRAM SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue +64% · 29% of their budget
  • PD
    PHOENIX DRUG & ALCOHOL RECOVERY AND EDUCATION SOCIETYgraduated
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$45k · revenue +46%

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
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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2
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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3
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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4
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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5
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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6
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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7
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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8
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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9
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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10
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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11
Variety - the Children's Charity of Bc

Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations. Variety funds renovations equipment…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Wildlife Preservation 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

91 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/91
Grantees still filing
60/91
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPeace Arch Hospital Foundation — C$380,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$348,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSURREY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONS — C$291,525 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$210,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS BURN FUND — C$150,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$124,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT — C$115,990 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY OF CANADA — C$76,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSURREY FIRE FIGHTERS' NUTRITIONAL SNACK PROGRAM SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetPHOENIX DRUG & ALCOHOL RECOVERY AND EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN AUTISM NETWORK SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSurrey Christmas Bureau — C$33,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetVolunteer Cancer Drivers — C$32,500 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetATHLETICS FOR KIDS — C$30,241 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetVANCOUVER CANUCKS ALUMNI FOUNDATION — C$29,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$22,985 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CANADA — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION OF BC — C$20,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$15,284 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEAYOUTIFUL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBC Wheelchair Basketball Society (Sportability) — C$10,321 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$10,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOURCES — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetVancity Community Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProstate Cancer Canada — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYO BRO YO GIRL YOUTH INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPathfinder Youth Centre Society — C$9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE BC — C$8,640 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKidney Foundation of Canada — C$8,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics BC - Surrey — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$5,541 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Bridge Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetKINSMAN LODGE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSurrey School District #36 — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERSECITY COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS Society of BC — C$4,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQUEST OUTREACH SOCIETY — C$4,349 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKwantlen Polytechnic University — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSurrey Hospice Society — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTAKE A HIKE YOUTH AT RISK FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,176 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANNAH AND AMELIA'S ANGELS FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBC FAMILY HEARING RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANUCK PLACE — C$2,570 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOptions Community Services Society — C$2,500 over 2y, 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.

Surreycares Community…First West FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Rotary Club of Semiah…Ocean Park FoundationBc Government Employe…Zlc FoundationVancouver FoundationLohn Foundation
Surreycares Community FoundationBC28.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Surreycares Community Foundation · First West Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Rotary Club of Semiahmoo (White Rock) B.C. Canada Charitable Trust · Ocean Park Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Zlc Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Lohn 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 81 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 2023-04-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under organizations relieving poverty.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 141057794:2023-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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