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Delta, BC · Private foundation

The Espiritu Foundation

In 2024 the foundation focused on supporting individuals and families experiencing financial hardship by providing funding to various charities that provide essential services that address critical areas of well-being.

C$108k
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.

C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$25,000
DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CHARITYC$25,000
VARIETY'S CHILDREN CHARITYC$25,000
FRASER RIVER STURGEON CONSERVATION SOCIETYC$20,000
DELTA FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETYC$12,500
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$218k · 4 repeat orgsC$120k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

C$218k
C$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-10%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$75k · revenue +8%
  • VB
    VARIETY BC
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$50k · revenue +1%
  • DE
    DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$50k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • PS
    PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$35k · revenue -10%
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue -31%
  • MR
    MINERAL RESOURCES EDUCATION PROGRAM OF BC
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +4%

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
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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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
Engineering and Geoscience Education Foundation Bc

Provide scholarships and bursaries to post-secondary students in the study of engineering of geoscience

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4
Langara College Foundation

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

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5
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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6
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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7
Pacific Rim Foundation

The charity creates establishes and distributes student scholarships and bursaries to advance education for the pacific rim region of b.c. capital funds are raised and secured to provide funding for the grants.

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8
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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9
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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10
West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society

Student outreach salmon surveys stream monitoring storm drain marking habitat restoration & rehab operation of a hatchery and annual fry releases ... science public education. instream projects in some years.

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11
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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12
South Fraser Regional Science Fair (Sfrsf)
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifique and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Eastside Women's Centre Association. 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY BC — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDELTA FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$42,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINERAL RESOURCES EDUCATION PROGRAM OF BC — C$25,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetFRASER RIVER STURGEON CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetDELTA LIFE SKILLS FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 27% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 9 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 726337306:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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