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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Hanson Foundation

To operate exclusively as a charitable organization to administer and employ its property and rights for the sole purpose of promoting such charitable purposes that contribute to the betterment of the inhabitants of canada.

C$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$360
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$190k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAELC$2,452
JEWISH FEDERATION GREATER VANCOUVERC$1,550
VANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTERC$612
MAGEN DAVID ADEMC$500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCYC$500
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$500
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$500
CANADA HELPSC$500
SCHARA TZDECKC$360
CHABAD RICHMONDC$360
RAPSC$255
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$250
KIDS HELP PHONEC$250
BC SPCAC$250
ALZHEIMER SOCIETYC$250
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$57k · 24 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 14 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

24
18

Total granted

C$57k
C$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+107%

Still filing today

96%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3k · revenue +81%
  • BC
    BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$3k · revenue +38%
  • GV
    GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$3k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • BU
    BGH UBC hospital foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$350 · revenue +34%
  • HF
    Hebrew Free Loan Association of Vancouvergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$300 · revenue +223%
  • SB
    Sparc bcgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$250 · revenue +228%

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
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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3
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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4
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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5
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

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

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Congregation Schara Tzedeck. 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

36 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. 36 of the 45 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
26/36
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 budgetCongregation Beth Israel — C$26,183 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$3,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$2,610 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION GREATER VANCOUVER — C$2,490 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY — C$2,464 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER — C$2,322 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD RICHMOND — C$1,760 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBC SPCA — C$1,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Foundation — C$1,160 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCHARA TZDECK — C$1,035 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAPS — C$855 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA — C$684 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetL'ACHAIM ADULT DAYCARE SOCIETY — C$660 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Hadassah-Wizo — C$500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wellspring Foundation for Education — C$500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAGEN DAVID ADEM — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING FOUNDATION — C$450 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJDRF — C$450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetB.C. Cancer Foundation — C$350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBGH UBC hospital foundation — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVPL — C$328 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Free Loan Association of Vancouver — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSparc bc — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FULMER FOUNDATION — C$250 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Lethbridge-Brock Hirshe Pronghorn hockey award — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDERENS HEARING & SPEECH — C$200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHELTER CANADA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies for Children — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGION FOUNDATION — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver — C$54 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.

Zlc FoundationJewish Federation of …Nicola Wealth Private…Lohn FoundationUnited Way British Co…Kahn FoundationMarsid Family Foundat…The Arnold and Anita …Al Roadburg FoundationDiamond FoundationVancity Community Fou…Private Giving Founda…
Zlc FoundationBC15.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Lohn Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Kahn Foundation · Marsid Family Foundation · The Arnold and Anita Silber Family Foundation · Al Roadburg Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Private Giving 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 45 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 2024-02-28, 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 119236891:2024-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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