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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Dean Shillington Charitable Foundation

To receive donations and make grants to qualified donees.

C$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
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

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$45k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$319k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$10,000
CAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONC$3,000
THE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$100k · 5 repeat orgsC$83k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

C$100k
C$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+58%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • CW
    CAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$51k · revenue +327%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$30k · revenue +31%
  • YM
    YWCA METRO VANCOUVER
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$11k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • LG
    LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue -7%
  • BL
    BEEDIE LUMINARIESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +142%
  • PP
    PACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +49%

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
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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2
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
Vancouver Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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9
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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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
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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12
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cause We Care Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 15 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATION — C$51,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA METRO VANCOUVER — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEEDIE LUMINARIES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVECLEAR FOUNDATION CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTH SHORE FOUNDATION — C$1,475 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS BC — C$523 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$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.

The Giustra FoundationPeter & Joanne Brown …Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Aqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Giustra FoundationON9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Giustra Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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 15 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 790337331:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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