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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Hamber Foundation

To provide grants to registered charitable organizations involved in the fields of art and culture health and welfare and education and athletics in the province of bc.

C$620k
Granted FY2024still arriving
274
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 274 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k272 grants · C$600k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
C$2,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jerome Outreach SocietyC$10,000
BC Amateur Sport Fund - Red Truck RacingC$10,000
UBCC$7,500
Kidsport - RichmondC$5,000
Simon Fraser UniversityC$5,000
Kidsport - Greater VictoriaC$4,700
Athletics for Kids Financial AssistanceC$4,000
BGC South Coast BCC$3,500
Lake Country Heritage and Cultural SocietyC$3,000
Plastic Orchid FactoryC$3,000
Kaatza Historical SocietyC$3,000
Itzazoo Productions SocietyC$3,000
Indian Summer Arts SocietyC$3,000
Harrison Festival SocietyC$3,000
Cycling BCC$3,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 66% of grant dollars (C$2.6M). The 34% that went abroad (C$1.4M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 34% of all-years giving (C$1.4M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 368 repeat orgsC$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

368 repeat relationships — 190 still active in FY2024, 178 since wound down; 76 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

368
478

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+17%

Still filing today

77%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$157k 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

  • UO
    University of British Columbia
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$53k · revenue +26%
  • SF
    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$45k · revenue +22%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA: GENDER STUDIES BURSARY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$21k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CA
    CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ARTS
    one grant, 2019 · C$153k
  • HA
    HEALTH AND WELFARE
    one grant, 2019 · C$133k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · C$89k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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.

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Vancouver New Music Society

Over the 2023-24 season vancouver new music presented many free community based events. these included community workshops public installations and online presentations. in addition the 2023-24 series included many paid concerts

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2
Vancouver Creative Space Society
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3
The Chop Theatre Society

The Chop is a Vancouver-based theatre organization that brings together artists to create new works of theatre for audiences locally across Canada and internationally. The organization often works with communities and individuals who are…

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4
Movement Enterprises Society

Established in 2001 Movement Enterprise Society is a charitable non-profit society dance production creation and presentation platform in Vancouver BC. The Society is dedicated to producing innovative and accessible new works in…

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5
Vdc Dance Centre Society

The Dance Centre (VDC) is BC's primary resource centre for dance. We provide programs supporting the development of professional dance artists (residencies danceLabs for research promotion networking workshops video documentation…

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6
The Vancouver Improv Centre Society

We operate a 186-seat theatre on Granville Island in Vancouver BC with up to nine live performances per week at full capacity. Our core programming is improvised and original and is highly dependent on the input and participation of…

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7
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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8
Vancouver Access Artist Run Centre

Access produces 3-5 exbitions per year and public programs which include artist talks publciations tours film screenings book launches performances temporary artist residencies community programs and shared community programming space.

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9
Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Society

Conducts a competition to award scholarship to bc youth studying music. provide educational workshops master classes and seminars to young musicians in british columbia.

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10
Vancouver Youth Theatre Society

Charitable activities include ongoing programs that fulfill vyt's mission statement: a creative partnership between young actors and authors with adult theatre professionals co-creating plays from young peoples' ideas across kids' writes…

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11
Victoria Festival of Authors Society

Victoria Festival of Authors is Vancouver Island’s largest annual celebration of books and book lovers. Our hybrid festival offers in-person programming of regional authors most offered by livestream for those viewing from home as well as…

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12
Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance Society

Public education and audience development of theatre as an art form; Online Theatre Guide; Professional development workshops gatherings and education for theatre workers; Weekly newsletter publication on theatre activities across Metro…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is Check Your Head: the Youth Global Education Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

529 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. 529 of the 922 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)
123
Early backer (in before they grew)
524/529
Grantees still filing
344/529
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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$52,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$44,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA: GENDER STUDIES BURSARY — C$20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BC — C$18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSociety for Kids at Tennis — C$14,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetCrisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of BC — C$14,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVancouver Asian Canadian Theatre — C$14,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetDANCE WEST NETWORK — C$13,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetVANCOUVER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY — C$13,500 over 5y, 40% of budgetSQX Dance Company — C$13,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMUSICA INTIMA SOCIETY — C$13,200 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetVANCOUVER CANTONESE OPERA — C$13,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetVancouver Art Gallery — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNeworld Theatre Society — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMovement Dance Productions Society — C$12,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetVANCOUVER INTER-CULTURAL ORCHESTRA — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHLANDS THERAPEUTIC RIDING SOCIETY — C$12,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER TO BE — C$12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAthletics for Kids Financial — C$12,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOME ASSEMBLY ARTS SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetVictoria Baroque Music Society 2 500 — C$11,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetRonald Mcdonald House BC and Yukon — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Langley — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCowichan Therapeutic Riding Association 4 000 — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMUSIC ON MAIN — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPain BC Society — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA SYMPHONY — C$11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE SOCIETY — C$10,750 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSHINE THROUGH THE RAIN FOUNDATION — C$10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Northern BC — C$10,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$10,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Symphony Society — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Post Partum Support Society — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCity Opera Of Vancouver Society — C$10,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCraft Council of BC — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFirst United Church Community Ministry — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetStanding Wave Society — C$10,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCHOR LEONI MEN'S CHOIR — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBC WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME RESOURCE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Island Mens Therapy Centre Society — C$9,800 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOQUITLAM PLACE DES ARTS SOCIETY — C$9,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBig Sisters of BC Lower Mainland — C$9,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBill Reid Foundation — C$9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRUMBLE THEATRE — C$9,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND SYMPHONY — C$9,500 over 4y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds University of British Columbia ↗
  • Who funds SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA: GENDER STUDIES BURSARY ↗
  • Who funds PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH COAST BC ↗
  • Who funds Society for Kids at Tennis ↗
  • Who funds Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of BC ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre ↗
  • Who funds DANCE WEST NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SQX Dance Company ↗
  • Who funds MUSICA INTIMA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER CANTONESE OPERA ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Art Gallery ↗
  • Who funds Neworld Theatre Society ↗
  • Who funds Movement Dance Productions Society ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER INTER-CULTURAL ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHLANDS THERAPEUTIC RIDING SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds POWER TO BE ↗
  • Who funds Athletics for Kids Financial ↗
  • Who funds SOME ASSEMBLY ARTS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Victoria Baroque Music Society 2 500 ↗
  • Who funds Ronald Mcdonald House BC and Yukon ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Langley ↗
  • Who funds Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association 4 000 ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC ON MAIN ↗
  • Who funds Pain BC Society ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds Covenant House Vancouver ↗

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.

Deux Mille FoundationY.P.Heung FoundationChris-Spencer Foundat…Lohn FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Cknw Kids' FundSeedlings FoundationMathisen Family Priva…Vancity Community Fou…Face the World Founda…Click-Contributing to…First West Foundation
Deux Mille FoundationBC43× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Deux Mille Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · Chris-Spencer Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Cknw Kids' Fund · Seedlings Foundation · Mathisen Family Private Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Face the World Foundation · Click-Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society · First West 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 922 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 119236594:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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