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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Abercrombie Foundation

Donations of income and/or principal are to be distributed at the discretion of the trustees for the advancement of education the relief of proverty and purposes beneficial to the community as a whole with a particular emphasis on children with disabilities and severe illness youth programs welfare of children and medical research…

C$450k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$288k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$150k
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Whistler Adaptive Sports Program SocietyC$80,000
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$70,000
CNIBC$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$40,000
VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONC$30,000
SURREY HOSPITAL & OUTPATIENT CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$30,000
NEIL SQUIRE FOUNDATIONC$29,500
ZAJAC RANCH SOCIETYC$28,000
FOUNDATION ROMEO DALLAIREC$20,000
THE YMCA OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$15,000
ADA-ANXIETY DISORDERS ASSOCIATION OF BCC$15,000
NORTH ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$10,000
Boys and Girls Clubs Foundation of South Coast BCC$10,000
BIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLANDC$10,000
Juvenile Diabetes Research FoundationC$10,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.1M · 25 repeat orgsC$92k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
10

Total granted

C$3.1M
C$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • WA
    Whistler Adaptive Sports Program Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$582k · revenue +159%
  • BC
    BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$350k · revenue +38%
  • SH
    SURREY HOSPITAL & OUTPATIENT CENTRE FDN
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$314k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue +188%
  • TM
    The Mel. JR. and Marty Zajac Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue +40%
  • HA
    Heart And Stroke Foundation British Columbia And Yukon
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k

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
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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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
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

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

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4
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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5
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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6
Special Olympics British Columbia Society

Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…

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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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11
British Columbia Autism Foundation
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12
Paralympic Foundation of Canada

The Paralympic Foundation of Canada's (the 'Foundation') mission is together deliver the best prepared teams for games excellence while promoting inclusive communities through the power of sport and its ambition is to raise $35 Million by…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fondation Romeo Dallaire. 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

33 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. 33 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
26/33
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 budgetWhistler Adaptive Sports Program Society — C$582,152 over 8y, 19% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$350,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY HOSPITAL & OUTPATIENT CENTRE FDN — C$314,344 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$260,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$239,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRARE DISEASE FOUNDATION — C$196,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetZAJAC RANCH SOCIETY — C$153,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetFRIEND 2 FRIEND SOCIAL LEARNING SOCIETY — C$130,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe YMCA of Greater Vancouver — C$120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEIL SQUIRE FOUNDATION — C$89,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA — C$80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION ROMEO DALLAIRE — C$72,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetNORTH FRASER THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCAITION — C$50,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$47,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKWANTIEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$32,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetADA-ANXIETY DISORDERS ASSOCIATION OF BC — C$25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF B.C. LOWER MAINLAND — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Mel. JR. and Marty Zajac Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs Foundation of South Coast BC — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION OF BC — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRiver City Squash Organization — C$13,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetDIABETES CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBC Federation of Foster Parent Association — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOWICHAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDHOOD CANCER FAMILY SUPPORT SOCIETY (CCFS) — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$4,000 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.

The Andrew Mahon Foun…The Hamber FoundationBc Government Employe…Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…First West FoundationLoyal Protestant Asso…Sutherland Foundation…Vancity Community Fou…Ocean Wise Conservati…Vancouver FoundationAl Roadburg Foundation
The Andrew Mahon FoundationBC12.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andrew Mahon Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · First West Foundation · Loyal Protestant Association · Sutherland Foundation Inc · Vancity Community Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Vancouver Foundation · Al Roadburg 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 35 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 850587874:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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