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West Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Helpalittle Foundation

The foundation funds and promotes the relief of poverty the advancement of religion the advancement of education the advancement of other charitable purposes which benefit the community as a whole by funding of other organizations that are qualified donees.

C$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$351k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATIONC$5,000
NORTH SHORE WOMEN'S CENTREC$3,000
WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATIONC$3,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$2,500
EMPOWER THROUGH MUSIC SOCIETYC$2,500
NORTH SHORE CRISIS SERVICES SOCIETYC$2,500
ALANO CLUB OF THE NORTH SHOREC$2,500
KAY MEEKS ARTS CENTREC$2,000
ATHLETICS FOR KIDS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (BC) SOCIETYC$1,500
AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETYC$1,000
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$117k · 14 repeat orgsC$28k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

C$117k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k 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

  • AC
    ALANO CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$31k · revenue +17%
  • AR
    Avalon Recovery Society
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$13k · revenue +87%
  • ET
    EMPOWER THROUGH MUSIC SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$13k · revenue +132% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • TP
    Turning Point Recover Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +186%
  • BS
    BC SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +6%
  • Q(
    Qqs (Eyes) Projects Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +75%

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 Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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2
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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3
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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4
Pro Musica Society of Vancouver

Vancouver Pro Musica Society's principal activities include presentation and promotion of new works by British Columbia composers. Since its inception in 1986 the organization has proudly presented hundreds of premieres by talented…

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5
Story Studio Writing Society

Story Studio is an award-winning BC-based charity that inspires educates and empowers youth to be great storytellers transforming lives and strengthening communities. The charity supports the well-being of children youth and families…

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6
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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7
Vancouver Creative Space Society
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8
The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society

Vancouver international jazz festival year-round jazz concerts and related educational programs.

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9
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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10
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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11
Greater Vancouver Society to Bridge Arts and Community

BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pandora's Collective Outreach Society and the most unlike its peers is Turning Point Recovery Society. 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

24 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
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 budgetALANO CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE — C$31,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetAvalon Recovery Society — C$12,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetEMPOWER THROUGH MUSIC SOCIETY — C$12,500 over 2y, 100% of budgetKAY MEEKS ARTS CENTRE — C$9,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$9,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH SHORE WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$6,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTides Canada Initiatives — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE CRISIS SERVICES SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point Recover Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPandora's Collective Outreach Society — C$5,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetBC SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVancouver Internationa Writes Festival Society — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTURNING POINT ENSEMBLE — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBATTERED WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES — C$3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQqs (Eyes) Projects Society — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATHLETICS FOR KIDS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (BC) SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVSO SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…Beedie FoundationVancity Community Fou…West Vancouver Commun…Png Enterprise Founda…Chris-Spencer Foundat…Ocean Wise Conservati…The Hamber FoundationThe Belmont FoundationCause We Care Foundat…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC12.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Beedie Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · West Vancouver Community Foundation · Png Enterprise Foundation · Chris-Spencer Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Hamber Foundation · The Belmont Foundation · Cause We Care 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 24 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 824811665:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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