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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Amir and Yasmin Virani Family Foundation

The Amir and Yasmin Virani Family Foundation was developed to support community based organizations (qualified donees as described by the income tax act) that target disadvantaged or marginalized children and youth in british columbia who do not have the same opportunities as their peers to develop to their fullest potential.

C$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$37k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$30k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASTC SCIENCE WORLD SOCIETYC$10,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$10,000
YWCA METRO VANCOUVERC$10,000
PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES OF BCC$5,000
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER FOUNDRYC$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$5,000
ART UMBRELLAC$5,000
THE WRITER'S EXCHANGEC$5,000
TAKE A HIKE YOUTH AT RISK FOUNDATIONC$5,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$5,000
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION BACK PACK BUDDIESC$2,000
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$320k · 11 repeat orgsC$39k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

C$320k
C$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • YM
    YWCA METRO VANCOUVER
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$70k · revenue +126%
  • AS
    A.S.T.C. SCIENCE WORLD SOCIETY
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$55k · revenue +22%
  • BS
    BIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$50k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • YH
    YORK HOUSE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue +39%
  • TS
    The Spark of Hope Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$6k · revenue +49%
  • VP
    Vancouver Public Library Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue -43%

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
Story Studio Writing Society

Story Studio is an award-winning BC-based charity that inspires educates and empowers youth to be great storytellers transforming lives and strengthening communities. The charity supports the well-being of children youth and families…

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2
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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3
Fraser Academy Association

Fraser Academy is a leader in the empowerment and education of students with dyslexia and language-based learning differences. Located in Vancouver BC Fraser Academy's fully accredited grade 1-12 independent school offers a learner-centric…

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4
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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5
Yell Canada

Yell advances education by running entrepreneurial programs for youth in partnership with school districts. the programs include classroom resources sourcing speakers and mentors for teachers and events for students. these programs equip…

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6
Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver

Big brother community program the traditional big brothers program matches adult male volunteers with boys aged 7-14 who need a positive male role model. in-school mentor the in school mentoring program is a friendship and activity based…

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7
Projectkids Before and After School Care Society

To Advance education by providing before and after-school programs using project-based engagement integrated with social/emotional learning to children in BC

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8
The Landing Youth Centre Foundation

The Landing Youth Centre is a community hub serving vulnerable youth and their families in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Grandview-Woodland neighborhoods. We provide all-round support programs and services to vulnerable youth and their…

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9
Vancouver Youth Theatre Society

Charitable activities include ongoing programs that fulfill vyt's mission statement: a creative partnership between young actors and authors with adult theatre professionals co-creating plays from young peoples' ideas across kids' writes…

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10
Ending Violence Association of British Columbia

We provide support and training to almost 300 anti-violence programs across BC that respond to sexual and intimate partner violence child abuse and criminal harassment. We work to increase the coordination of services for survivors in the…

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11
Focus Foundation of British Columbia

Focus foundation is a charitable organization supporting children and youth through our dual accredited youth development and education programs operating in the lower mainland of bc and fraser valley. our programs encourage children with…

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12
Ymca Bc

'We are a charity dedicated to building healthy communities by fostering a sense of belonging for all. By creating safe and welcoming spaces that serve people of all ages backgrounds and abilities the YMCA BC is committed to ensuring…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland and the most unlike its peers is The Spark of Hope 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

18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
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 budgetYWCA METRO VANCOUVER — C$70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetA.S.T.C. SCIENCE WORLD SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND — C$50,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE A HIKE YOUTH AT RISK FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WRITER'S EXCHANGE — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION — C$16,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetART UMBRELLA — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLEA Community Services Society of BC — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYORK HOUSE SCHOOL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Spark of Hope Foundation — C$6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Public Library Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER FOUNDRY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Buddies Network of the Lower Mainland Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBULLYINGCANADA INC. — C$4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLEAVE OUT VIOLENCE (LOVE) SOCIETY BC — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 Hamber FoundationDiamond FoundationLohn FoundationVancity Community Fou…Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Cknw Kids' FundVancouver FoundationTELUS Friendly Future…The Connor Clark & L…Bc Government Employe…
The Hamber FoundationBC11.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Cknw Kids' Fund · Vancouver Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation · 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 18 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 824595359:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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