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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Collings Stevens Family Foundation

The purposes of the foundation are to receive gifts bequests funds and property and to hold invest administer and distribute funds and property to 'qualified donees' as defined by the income tax act; to do all such other things as are incidental and ancilliary to the attainment of the foregoing purposes and the exercise of the power…

C$747k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$450k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$2k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$95k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$200k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$450k
C$30,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$450,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$200,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADAC$30,000
LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$30,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$25,000
OSTEOPOROSIS CANADAC$10,000
SICKKIDS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.1M · 14 repeat orgsC$697k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

C$2.1M
C$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$652k 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

  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$631k · revenue +144%
  • BC
    BC CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$509k · revenue +33%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$375k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Sullivan Urology Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k · revenue +127%
  • HA
    Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia and Yukon
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k
  • TP
    True Patriot Love Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +9%

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
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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2
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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3
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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4
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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5
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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6
Prostate Cancer Canada

Prostate Cancer Canada has continued to responsibly invest the generous donations of Canadians to develop the most promising studies and minds Canada has to offer in the field of prostate cancer research. We have continued to ensure the…

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7
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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8
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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9
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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10
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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11
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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12
Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bc Cancer Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth. 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

20 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. 20 of the 22 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
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 budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$631,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$509,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$375,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLION'S GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$91,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVGH & UBC Hospital Foundation — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE TO ONE LITERACY SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetEVA'S INITIATIVES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — C$45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOSTEOPOROSIS CANADA — C$35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION CANADA — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sullivan Urology Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION — C$18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTrue Patriot Love Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrans Canada Trail Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSICKKIDS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000 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.

United Way British Co…Private Giving Founda…Vancity Community Fou…BenefAction FoundationZlc FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…Nicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationRaymond James Canada …Canada GivesUnited Way of the Alb…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
United Way British ColumbiaBC8.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Private Giving Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Zlc Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Canada Gives · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 22 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 831933775:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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