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Burnaby, BC · Private foundation

The 625 Powell Street Foundation

To provide grants and other financial support to 'qualified donees' (as defined in income tax act (canada)) including those that are engaged in the research and prevention of hiv/aids

C$28M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$8.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$88k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$448k
  • C$250k+9 grants · C$27M
C$1,200,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$265M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$7,950,000
ST PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVERC$5,100,000
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONC$3,867,397
DELANCEY STREET BCC$3,395,069
FIRST U NITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRYC$2,450,000
BIG BROTHERS OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$1,800,000
WEST COAST RAILWAY ASSOCIATIONC$1,200,000
LADY MINTO HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$500,000
GABRIOLA HOUSING SOCIETYC$210,000
THE KETTLE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETYC$128,000
DUDES CLUB SOCIETYC$110,000
BLOOM GROUPC$48,000
URBAN INDIGENOUS HEALTH & HEALING COOPERATIVEC$40,000
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$57M · 18 repeat orgsC$16M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

C$57M
C$6.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9.3M 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

  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$10M · revenue +127%
  • VC
    VANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$10M · revenue +128%
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$8.6M · revenue +143% · 71% of their budget

Funded once

  • BS
    BIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND
    one grant, 2022 · C$5.2M · revenue +22%
  • CH
    CONVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER
    one grant, 2020 · C$750k
  • UI
    URBAN INDIDENOUS HEALTH & HEALING CO-OP
    one grant, 2018 · C$500k

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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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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2
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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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
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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5
Co:Here Foundation

The Foundation has developed housing to support vulnerable people in the Grandview Woodland neighbourhood in East Vancouver.

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6
Vancouver Island Mental Health Society

Gateway house- a 10 bed fully staffed and licenced facility. it offers a therapeautic integrative and empowering life skills program. kc house brewster house and bob currie place provide smi-independent living housing and programs boundary…

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7
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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8
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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9
Ballenas Housing Society

Ballenas owns and operates housing for the purpose of relieving poverty by providing residential accommodation at below market rate and by providing support and incidental facilities to individuals or families who are in need. programs…

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10
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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11
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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12
Chilliwack Housing for Homeless Foundation

Alleviate homelessness by increasing housing supply. Work with other non profits for the best use of such housing.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lookout Housing and Health Society and the most unlike its peers is Gabriola Housing 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

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 29 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
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 budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$10,175,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetFIRST UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY MINISTRY — C$8,552,500 over 5y, 71% of budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$8,323,487 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetST PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$6,550,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$3,867,397 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBLOOM GROUP — C$3,650,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetLADY MINTO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetCONVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$2,000,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$1,800,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND AND THE GULF ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$1,714,063 over 4y, 23% of budgetWEST COAST RAILWAY ASSOCIATION — C$1,302,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetLOOKOUT HOUSING AND HEALTH SOCIETY — C$1,125,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSTREETOHOME FOUNDATION — C$530,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetURBAN INDIDENOUS HEALTH & HEALING CO-OP — C$467,500 over 5y, 20% of budgetDUDES CLUB SOCEITY — C$257,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE KETTLE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$256,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSULLIVAN UROLOGY FOUNDATION — C$142,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$116,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$82,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GOSPEL MISSION — C$38,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE CMOLIK FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBC CENTRE FOR ABILITY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Al Roadburg FoundationZlc FoundationVancouver FoundationThe Cedarhurst Founda…April 1 FoundationGreater Vancouver Foo…Diamond FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Bc Government Employe…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC13× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Al Roadburg Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Cedarhurst Foundation · April 1 Foundation · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · Diamond Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust

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 29 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 2024-11-30, 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 830626016:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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