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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

The Art Starts in Schools Society

Artstarts in schools provides innovative arts programs for young people practical resources for teachers and artists and leadership in advocacy for arts in education.

C$605k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$44k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k28 grants · C$199k
  • C$10k–50k23 grants · C$406k
C$9,242
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)C$44,000
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 57 (PRINCEC$32,406
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 36 (SURREY)C$31,700
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 71 (COMOXC$20,828
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 43 (COQUITLAM)C$18,750
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 27 (CARIBOOC$18,700
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 23 (CENTRALC$18,400
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 73 (KAMLOOPSC$18,000
THE BOARD FO EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 61 (GREATEC$17,600
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 68 (NANIMOC$17,000
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 60 (PEACEC$16,800
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 82 (COASTC$14,900
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 41 (BURNABY)C$14,600
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 38 (RICHMOND)C$14,000
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 42 (MAPLEC$13,968
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$737k · 24 repeat orgsC$325k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
3

Total granted

C$737k
C$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$270k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 39 (VA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$133k · revenue +9%
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 36 (SU
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$70k · revenue +16%
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 68 (NA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$54k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 8 (KOO
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue +9%
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 57 (PR
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 5 (SOU
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +16%

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
The Board of Education of School District No. 57 (Prince George)

School district no. 57 (prince george) is responsible for kindergarten to grade 12 public education and related early learing and adult learning programs within the geographic boundaries of the school district in accordance with the school…

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2
The Board of Education of School District No. 54 (Bulkley Valley)

To provide educational programs for elementary and secondary students as required by the Ministry of Education

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3
The Board of Education of School District No. 87 (Stikine)

We operate public schools where we are able to offer scholarships to our graduating students. we alos offer opportunities for donations to improve and assist the school system in educating our students to the highest level possible.

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4
Board of Education of the Regina School Division No. 4 of Saskatchewan

Advancements of education through the provisions of the Education Act 1995 of Saskatchewan. Awarding scholarships and bursaries. Purchase of materials and supplies for school use.

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5
Renfrew County District School Board

We work together to create a dynamic and respectful learning environment that supports and encourages individual achievement and well-being and creates outstanding educational experiences for all our students.

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6
SD43 Education Foundation

To advance the education initiatives of the board of school trustees of school district 43 (coquitlam) by providing grants and general support; to support extra-curricular activities programs and projects for the students of school…

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7
The Board of Trustees of Fort McMurray Public School Division

The school division maintains the public education of 7 800+ students within the city of Fort McMurray Alberta. The school division provides services from Early Childhood Development and Kindergarten to Grade 12 within the city and…

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8
Black Gold School Division

Black Gold School Division provides training and instruction to approximately 12 300 students in Grades ECS to 12 through the operation of 32 schools.

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9
High Prairie School Division No. 48

High Prairie School Division operates to the School Act and offers education to students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 in 12 schools

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10
Rainy River District School Board

Policies communicated to schools annually

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11
The Board of Trustees of Edmonton School Division

Purchase supplemental resources and materials to enhance education and support extracurricular activities in our schools.

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12
The Wetaskiwin School Division
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver) and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Education of School District No. 82 (Coast Mountains). 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

51 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. 51 of the 54 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
23/51
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 39 (VA — C$133,267 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 36 (SU — C$70,419 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 68 (NA — C$53,847 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 44 (NO — C$50,622 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 41 (BU — C$43,976 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 72 (CA — C$33,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 79 (CO — C$30,710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 8 (KOO — C$30,289 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 71 (COMOX — C$30,071 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE BOARD FO EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 61 (GREATE — C$26,406 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 43 (COQUITLAM) — C$25,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 73 (KAMLOOPS — C$25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 38 (RICHMOND) — C$24,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 48 (SE — C$24,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 42 (MAPLE — C$23,968 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 82 (COAST — C$21,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 10 (AR — C$18,900 over 2y, 73% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 27 (CARIBOO — C$18,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 23 (CENTRAL — C$18,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 46 (SU — C$17,671 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 60 (PEACE — C$16,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 91 (NECHAKO — C$16,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 83 (NORTH — C$15,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 45 (WE — C$14,011 over 2y, 28% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 59 (PEACE — C$13,530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO 19 (REVELSTOKE) BURSARY SCHOLARSHIP AND — C$12,313 over 2y, 47% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 28 (QUESNEL) — C$11,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 34 — C$11,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 35 (LANGLEY) — C$11,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64 (GULF — C$10,057 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 22 (VERNON) — C$9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 69 (QUALICUM) — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 37 (DELTA) — C$8,852 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 70 (ALBERNI) — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 85 (VANCOUVER — C$7,991 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 62 (SOOKE) — C$7,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 67 (OKANAGAN — C$7,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 52 (PRINCE — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 20 (KOOTENAY) — C$7,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 6 (ROCKY — C$7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 33 — C$7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 49 (CENTRAL — C$6,809 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 78 (FRASER — C$6,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 63 (SAANICH) — C$6,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 84 (VANCOUVER — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 51 (BOUNDAY) — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 40 (NEW — C$5,910 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN — C$5,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Construction Foundati…Vancouver Sun Childre…Indigo Love of Readin…Music Education Chari…Sedin Family Foundati…Td Friends of the Env…Cwb Welding FoundationThe Western Communiti…Club des petits déjeu…Times Colonist Litera…Postmedia Network Fou…Metro Vancouver Regio…
Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) SocietyBC46.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) Society · Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society · Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · Music Education Charity of Canada · Sedin Family Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Cwb Welding Foundation · The Western Communities Foundation · Club des petits déjeuners du Canada - Breakfast Club of Canada · Times Colonist Literacy Society · Postmedia Network Foundation · Metro Vancouver Regional Parks 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 54 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 charitable organization under support of schools and education.

Source object 897658936:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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