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North Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Tamara Foundation

Grants to qualified donees

C$507k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$95k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k16 grants · C$356k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$145k
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY SOCIETYC$95,004
SANCTUARY MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETYC$50,000
SIGNAL HILL LIFE EDUCATION SOCIETYC$45,002
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL CANADAC$35,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
THE CARDUS INSTITUTEC$25,000
HIMALAYAN LIFE CANADAC$25,000
KARIS SUPPORT SOCIETYC$20,000
INNER HOPE YOUTH MINISTRIESC$20,000
YOUNG LIFE OF CANADAC$20,000
SHELTER MOVERSC$20,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE SOCIETYC$20,000
CARE FOR WOMEN FOUNDATIONC$20,000
CAMERAS FOR GIRLSC$18,650
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.2M · 36 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
24

Total granted

C$4.2M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+28%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$59k 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

  • CA
    CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$738k · revenue +79%
  • HL
    HIMALAYAN LIFE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$556k · revenue +323% · 26% of their budget
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$501k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • RJ
    RAYMOND JAMES CANADA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$1.0M · revenue +163%
  • CC
    Chimp Charitable Imapct Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue +274%
  • T
    TICCA
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue +7%

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
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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2
Compassion Canada

Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…

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3
Brave Global Canada

Brave Global empowers local communities to partner with vulnerable girls to prevent sexual exploitation. They train local leaders offer curriculum and ongoing coaching and strategy to work towards ending trafficking.

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4
Tearfund Canada

Tearfund is passionate to see all people freed from poverty living transformed lives and reaching their god-given potential. firmly affirming national leadership we collaborate with church-based partners across the global south to fix the…

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5
Cascade Institute Research Society

Using advanced methods to map and model complex global systems we analyze interactions between systemic risks to anticipate future crises and identify opportunities for high-leverage interventions in social systems. By acting as a network…

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6
Canadian Baptist Ministries

Cbm is a global mission organization committed to sharing god's love through word and deed. we believe that god brings healing to a broken world through local churches. with over 150 years of experience we have seen that words and deeds…

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7
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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8
Impacthope

We are a faith based organization partnering with national christian leaders. together we develop sustainable projects that address the cycle of poverty. our efforts include the construction of a hospital in guatemala; two children homes…

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9
Every Home for Christ International/Canada

Christian philanthropic work that provides: - Evangelism and discipleship strategies and resources for churches and individuals - Support for children in various nations

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10
One Girl Can Society

One Girl Can gives some of the world’s most vulnerable high-potential girls a chance to rise above extreme poverty and gender inequality. Through education training and mentoring girls are empowered to achieve their goals earn a meaningful…

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11
Karis Global Partnerships

Karis Global Partnerships serves International communities around the world through the implementation of holistic practical and long-term development programs. Our focus is to meet the needs to at risk people. We are dedicated to bringing…

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12
Hope Story

Working around the world hope story is a christian charity located in cambridge ontario with a mission to help vulnerable children access education health and discipleship through their local church. the in-country churches we partner with…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change the World Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sutherland Church. 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

65 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/65
Grantees still filing
41/65
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 budgetRAYMOND JAMES CANADA FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN ADVOCACY SOCIETY — C$737,870 over 8y, 19% of budgetHIMALAYAN LIFE — C$555,500 over 7y, 26% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$500,522 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOpportunity International Canada — C$305,804 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSUTHERLAND CHURCH — C$205,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetSIGNAL HILL — C$178,652 over 4y, 11% of budgetA ROCHA CANADA — C$143,650 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMB MISSION — C$115,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetCARITAS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSN — C$111,500 over 2y, 47% of budgetSPARTAN FOUNDATION — C$106,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHE CARDUS INSTITUTE — C$105,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST PETER'S FIRESIDE CHURCH — C$96,300 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER CAPITAL CAMPAIGN — C$85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINNER HOPE YOUTH MINISTRIES — C$82,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetSANCTUARY MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE CARDUS INSTITUTE — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS — C$75,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetMB MISSION — C$66,350 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION — C$62,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREGENT COLLEGE — C$59,400 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — C$55,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS — C$55,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetYOUNG LIFE OF CANADA — C$50,900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP CANADA — C$50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetChimp Charitable Imapct Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKARIS SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMENNONITE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE — C$42,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCARE FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTICCA — C$30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMCC — C$28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL HEIGHTS CHURCH — C$23,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CANADA — C$21,600 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCPC Vancouver — C$21,150 over 2y, 11% of budgetMulti-Nation Missions Foundation — C$21,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHANGE THE WORLD FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCANADA SCORES VANCOUVER — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetALLY GLOBAL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAMERAS FOR GIRLS — C$18,650 over 1y, 23% of budgetAbbotsford Hospice Society — C$16,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRAPHAEL FAMILY SUPPORT FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CRIDGE CENTRE FOR THE FAMILY — C$13,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCBOQ — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRun for Water Foundation — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRegent College — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Givewise Foundation C…Nicola Wealth Private…Canadian National Chr…The Way ChurchAbundance CanadaThe Foundation Office…Canary FoundationLagniappe FoundationSeacliff FoundationRedleaf FoundationUnited Way British Co…Munday-Maxwell & Gayl…
Givewise Foundation CanadaBC19.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Givewise Foundation Canada · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Canadian National Christian Foundation · The Way Church · Abundance Canada · The Foundation Office.Ca · Canary Foundation · Lagniappe Foundation · Seacliff Foundation · Redleaf Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Munday-Maxwell & Gaylene-Association

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 65 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 2024-01-31, 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 891201741:2024-01-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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