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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Andrew Mahon Foundation

Donations and grants to organizations to aid in the treatment and rehabilitation of handicapped children and those organizations and individuals performing research into diseases with afflict children.

C$855k
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$115k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k68 grants · C$202k
  • C$10k–50k14 grants · C$188k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$465k
C$4,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (RE: SURGICAL CENTREC$115,000
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$100,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$50,000
THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF BCC$50,000
ADERA FOUNDATION SOCIETYC$27,900
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,000
BC AMATEUR SPORT FUNDC$20,000
BC AMATEUR SPORT FUNDC$10,000
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
CAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$10,000
WHISTLER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
PACIFIC SPIRIT UNITED CHURCHC$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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.8M · 97 repeat orgsC$243k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

97 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
41

Total granted

C$3.8M
C$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+14%

Still filing today

95%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24
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

  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (RE: SURGICAL CENTRE
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$767k · revenue +12%
  • SP
    ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$324k · revenue +156%
  • BC
    BC CANCER FOUNDATION (INSTALMENT 5 OR 5)
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$316k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • AA
    AUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$70k
  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$14k
  • CC
    CYCLING CANADA CYCLISME - WE RIDE FOR CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +6%

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
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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3
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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4
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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5
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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6
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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7
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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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
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
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central City Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Powell River Salmon 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

135 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. 135 of the 150 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/135
Grantees still filing
102/135
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 budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (RE: SURGICAL CENTRE — C$767,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$324,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION (INSTALMENT 5 OR 5) — C$316,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$270,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA (RE: GREEN ROOM - INSTAL 1 OF 5) — C$175,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetADERA FOUNDATION SOCIETY THE — C$132,250 over 5y, 30% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY FOUNDATION (RE: INSTAL 4 OF 5 YEAR $250 0 — C$125,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION (RE: ENDOWMENT FUND - INSTAL 1 — C$106,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF BC — C$96,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$78,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$66,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE RIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION(RE:INSTALMENT 5 OF 5 YEAR $ — C$61,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE (RE: MUSIC PROGRAM - TOTAL A — C$59,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Opera Association — C$53,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBC AMATEUR SPORT FUND — C$52,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$41,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$39,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHISTLER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION (RE: TRAUMA ROOM UPGRADE - I — C$38,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAunt Leah's Place (re: 2017 one time donation) — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCAPILANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (RE: CENTRE FOR CHILDHOOD STU — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD — C$20,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BC (RE: IN MEMORY OF BARBARA MANNING) — C$19,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$18,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ADAPTIVE SNOW SPORTS — C$16,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND (CNIB) — C$15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBill Reid Foundation (re: Bill Reid Gallery) — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTrue Patriot Love Foundation (re: Dave Mullen Everest Expedi — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBC WHEELCHAIR SPORTS ASSOCIATION — C$15,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPacific Parkinson's Research Institute — C$14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBC Guide Dog Services — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSPINAL CORD INJURY BC — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHORE — C$12,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEIL SQUIRE SCOIETY — C$12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL — C$11,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$11,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetL'Arche Foundation of Greater Vancouver — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWISH Drop-In Centre Society — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC SPIRIT UNITED CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCYCLING CANADA CYCLISME - WE RIDE FOR CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 5y, 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.

Ocean Wise Conservati…Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…The Hamber FoundationAndre and Brock Rowla…Lohn FoundationDiamond FoundationVancity Community Fou…The Christopher Found…United Way British Co…West Vancouver Commun…The Connor Clark & L…
Ocean Wise Conservation AssociationBC28.5× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Andre and Brock Rowland Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · United Way British Columbia · West Vancouver Community Foundation · The Connor Clark & Lunn 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 150 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 119212280:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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