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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Ascension Foundation

1.

C$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$17k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$73k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTER'S CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$10,000
VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGEC$5,000
MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE (MCC) BRITISH COLUMBIAC$5,000
ST. PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$3,000
JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIESC$2,500
THE SALVATION ARMY KATE BOOTH HOUSEC$1,500
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$286k · 7 repeat orgsC$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

C$286k
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+56%

Still filing today

86%
67%

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

  • VF
    Vancouver Firefighters' Charitable Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$177k · revenue +100%
  • VC
    VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$40k · revenue +328%
  • MC
    MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE (MCC) BRITISH COLUMBIA
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$21k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ASCENTA FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH AND EDUCATION OUTREACH
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue -90%
  • BS
    BRITANNIA SECONDARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k
  • RT
    RARE TRAIT HOPE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue +56%

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
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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2
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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3
Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation
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4
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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5
Vancouver College Foundation

Fundraising activities in support of vancouver college limited. management of trust funds and endowment funds.

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6
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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7
B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation

The foundation provides financial and human resources to charitable not for profit groups focused on community service. the foundation provides grants to qualified donees that provide services in the areas of: social services education and…

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8
Tb Vets Charitable Foundation

A) provides grants to hospitals and first reponders for respiratory equipment in the treatment of respiratory illness in patients of all ages. b) providing diagnostic equipment for respiratory systems to communities across british columbia…

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9
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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10
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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11
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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12
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Fire Fighters' Charitable Society and the most unlike its peers is Rare Trait Hope 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
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 budgetVancouver Firefighters' Charitable Society — C$176,500 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetVANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE (MCC) BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES — C$20,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetST. PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VANCOUVER — C$7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY KATE BOOTH HOUSE — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASCENTA FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH AND EDUCATION OUTREACH — C$5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetRARE TRAIT HOPE SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Zlc FoundationUnited Way British Co…Aqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationUnited Way of Greater…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Zlc FoundationBC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon

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 10 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 860242833:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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