West Vancouver, BC · Private foundation
The Hieros Foundation
No charitable programs are carried on directly by THE HIEROS FOUNDATION.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k6 grants · C$24k
- C$10k–50k4 grants · C$93k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED CHURCH | C$75,000 |
| YWCA | C$68,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | C$43,000 |
| THE ARTS CLUB THEATRE SOCIETY | C$30,000 |
| CANADIAN RED CROSS | C$10,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | C$10,000 |
| ZAJAC FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK | C$5,000 |
| PAL VANCOUVER | C$5,000 |
| VANCOUVER FOUNDATION | C$4,000 |
| DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE | C$3,000 |
| VICTORIA INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | C$2,000 |
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.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · C$569k · revenue +81%
- FUFIRST UNITED CHURCH8× · 2017–2024 · C$257k · revenue +61%
- YYWCA7× · 2017–2024 · C$173k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- VUVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · C$58k · revenue +9%
- YYWCAone grant, 2018 · C$17k
- CMCoast Mental Health Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +89%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province. We support healthy caring and inclusive communities by strengthening vital connections to help ensure the health…
Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…
Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations. Variety funds renovations equipment…
The Foundation has developed housing to support vulnerable people in the Grandview Woodland neighbourhood in East Vancouver.
Vancouver Status of Women's ongoing work focuses on feminist community building with women and gender diverse peoples towards equity in social political and economic spheres. The Coordinating Collective provides ongoing support to…
The Landing Youth Centre is a community hub serving vulnerable youth and their families in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Grandview-Woodland neighborhoods. We provide all-round support programs and services to vulnerable youth and their…
The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is Zajac Ranch Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FIRST UNITED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds YWCA ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CLUB THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds World Vision Canada ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA ↗
- Who funds PAL VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Victoria International Development Education Association ↗
- Who funds ZAJAC RANCH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds ZAJAC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ↗
- Who funds Coast Mental Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds KELTY PATRICK DENNEHY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion Fruit Society, Project Somos ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vancouver Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.