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Surrey, BC · Private foundation

The Block Charitable Foundation

The foundation makes donations to other qualified donees.

C$306k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$218k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$88k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$218k
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$352k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOURCES COMMUNITY RESOURCE FOUNDATIONC$217,500
WHITE ROCK BAPTIST CHURCHC$25,000
PEACE ARCH HOSPICE SOCIETYC$25,000
VOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETYC$20,000
SEMIAHMOO ROTARY CLUBC$18,200
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.6M · 15 repeat orgsC$165k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

C$1.6M
C$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
82%

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

  • WR
    WHITE ROCK BAPTIST CHURCH DONATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$389k · revenue +32%
  • SC
    SOURCES COMMUNITY RESOURCE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$335k · revenue +125%
  • SF
    SOURCES FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$233k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • MM
    MERCY MULIPLIED CANADA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue -47%
  • YM
    YL MALIBU CLUB MINISTRY AFFILIATESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$30k · revenue +34%
  • DF
    DALIT FREEDOM NETWORK CANADA
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue -100%

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
Westcoast Community Resources Society

Programs to support children youth adults and families in dealing with problems and challenges in today's society and co-ordinates with other agencies providing services to children youth and families. homelessness outreach program

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2
The Living Rock Ministries

Provides urban ministry training and reaches out to street youth. programs and services include breakfast program food bank coffee house work readiness and job placement youth volunteer program individual counselling visiting youth in…

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3
Rotary Club of Coquitlam Centre Foundation

Starfish backpack program meals on wheels share community services food bank youth and 'at risk individuals support programs'

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4
White Rock Community Church

White Rock Community Church offers a variety of programs including a vibrant Children's Ministry with weekly lessons crafts and a summer camp. WRCC Youth (grades 7–12) meets on Wednesdays for worship retreats and service. The Alpha course…

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5
Pacific Community Resources Society

The society operates alternative schools alcohol and drug counseling and prevention programs needle exchange program youth centres employment programs training for youth education assistance programs pathways to education program…

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6
White Rock Millennium Charitable Society

Raises funds through activities created by the Rotary Club of South Surrey for distribution to other registered Charitable Organizations in support of local community and international projects recommended by the Rotary Club.

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7
Mennonite Central Committee (Mcc) British Columbia

Forwards funds to Mennonite Central Committee Canada to support international relief. Warehouse collects and ships clothing/blankets/food/medical supplies to Mennonite Central Committee Canada for forwarding to other countries. Partners…

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8
Greater Vancouver Youth for Christ

Youth work with marginalized young people to provide camps coaching mentoring youth programs bible studies counselling outdoor recreation support teen mothers & teen fathers drop in centers discipleship homeless and street youth…

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9
Mercy for Youth Ministries

Providing support and mentorship to at-risk youth and their families through sport. The programs are supported by many volunteers through coaching travel and mentorship. The main activities but not limited to are Olympic wrestling academic…

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10
Helping Hands International

1. Conducting outreach to distribute necessities of life to the poor and underprivileged and to demonstrate the love of God to them in practical ways. Establishing relationships through meeting needs then opens the door for instruction and…

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11
Cityreach Care Society

1) society work: general 2) weekly nutritional food banks for low income families and single parents 3) before and after school care for children 5 years and older 4) club freedom: lunch for recovering addicts 5) boxes of love: food and…

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12
Covenant House Vancouver

Covenant House Vancouver offers a 24-hour crisis shelter a supported living program street outreach and drop-in service for youth aged at 16-24 who are homeless and at risk of homeless. Covenant House Vancouver supports young people by…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Dream Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is River City Squash Organization. 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

25 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. 25 of the 26 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWHITE ROCK BAPTIST CHURCH DONATION — C$389,020 over 8y, 14% of budgetSOURCES COMMUNITY RESOURCE FOUNDATION — C$335,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetSOURCES FOUNDATION — C$232,905 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSEMIAHMOO ROTARY CLUB — C$119,850 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetROCHA CANADA — C$97,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetVOLUNTEER CANCER DRIVERS SOCIETY — C$74,734 over 8y, 11% of budgetCITY DREAM CENTRE SOCIETY — C$70,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetPEACE ARCH HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$64,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetACTION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMERCY MULIPLIED CANADA SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetZIMBABWE GECKO SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYL MALIBU CLUB MINISTRY AFFILIATES — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN BAPTISTS OF WESTERN CANADA — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDALIT FREEDOM NETWORK CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREC FOR KIDS SOCIETY — C$17,500 over 3y, 24% of budgetWHITE ROCK ROTARY CLUB — C$16,300 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE TERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE ARCH HOSPITAL AUXILIARY SOCIETY — C$12,486 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPEACE ARCH HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKEATS CAMPS — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSENIORS COME SHARE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVER CITY SQUASH — C$5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetARROW LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEARBROOK MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Peace Portal Alliance…United Way British Co…Butterley Family Foun…Rotary Club of Semiah…Surreycares Community…First West FoundationPeace Arch Hospital a…Werner & Helga Hoing …Surrey Fire Fighters …Food Banks British Co…Foursquare Gospel Chu…Lohn Foundation
Peace Portal Alliance Church of the Christian & Missionary Alliance Cdn Pacific DistrictBC12.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peace Portal Alliance Church of the Christian & Missionary Alliance Cdn Pacific District · United Way British Columbia · Butterley Family Foundation Inc · Rotary Club of Semiahmoo (White Rock) B.C. Canada Charitable Trust · Surreycares Community Foundation · First West Foundation · Peace Arch Hospital and Community Health Foundation · Werner & Helga Hoing Foundation · Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society · Food Banks British Columbia · Foursquare Gospel Church of Canada · Lohn 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 26 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 133048769:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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