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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Highbury Foundation

The purpose of the highbury foundaiton is to support encourage promote and foster: (I) the advancement of educaiton; (ii) the advancement of religion; (iii) medical research; (iv) canadian creative arts; and (v) other charitable and philanthropic endeavours by distributing funds to 'qualified donees' as defined in the income tax act…

C$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$900k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k22 grants · C$423k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$713k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.4M
C$20,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$900,000
YMCA BCC$500,000
THE ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$200,000
THE CITY OF EDMONTON LIBRARY BOARDC$150,000
CANADIAN COSTAL RESEARCH SOCIETYC$100,000
ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCHC$87,914
YOUNG LIFE OF CANADAC$75,000
VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATIONC$50,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
B.C. SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSC$41,878
MONARCA CANADA FOUNDATIONC$40,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$36,000
THE DEMOCRACY FUNDC$25,000
EMBRACE RWANDA INTERNATIONAL SOCIETYC$25,000
THE DIOCESE OF THE ARCTICC$25,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$10M
Alberta
C$1.6M
Ontario
C$402k
Nova Scotia
C$157k
Quebec
C$77k
New Brunswick
C$50k
Northwest Territories
C$25k
Saskatchewan
C$22k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$11M · 43 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
39

Total granted

C$11M
C$797k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$774k 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
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$6.3M · revenue +55%
  • YB
    YMCA BC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue +142%
  • TN
    TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$416k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • CC
    Christ Church Parish
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue -38%
  • LF
    La Fondation du CHU de Quebec
    one grant, 2018 · C$77k · revenue +4%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    one grant, 2019 · C$62k · revenue 0%

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.

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
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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3
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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4
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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5
Langara College Foundation

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

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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10
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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11
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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12
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Crofton House School. 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

98 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. 98 of the 101 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/98
Grantees still filing
59/98
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$6,266,287 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA BC — C$1,617,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — C$415,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetMonarca Canada Foundation — C$340,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetThe British Columbia SPCA — C$215,878 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DEMOCRACY FUND — C$195,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPilgrims Hospice Society — C$185,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetPACIFIC BALLET BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY — C$170,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CITY OF EDMONTON LIBRARY BOARD — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FOR WILDLIFE SOCIETY — C$132,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetWEST POINT GREY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$110,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetChrist Church Parish — C$100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCANADIAN COSTAL RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$97,914 over 2y, 18% of budgetB.C. Cancer Foundation — C$95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLa Fondation du CHU de Quebec — C$76,896 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEN CANADA THE CANADIAN CENTRE OF INTERNATIONAL PEN — C$76,380 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE OF CANADA — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDEMOCRACY EDUCATION NETWORK — C$70,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetEdmonton Catholic Separate School District 7 — C$64,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$62,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts Umbrella Association — C$52,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS FOR KIDS PROMOTING EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$51,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetEmily Carr University of Art and Design Trust Fund — C$50,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD STASH FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetCrofton House School — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTides Canada Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEDMONTON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBCIT FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Canadian Red Cross Society — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBritish Columbia's Women's Hospital and Health Centre — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$49,725 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint John's School of Alberta Legacy Foundation — C$46,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetFace the World Foundation — C$41,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE (MCC)B.C. — C$35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF BC — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Canada Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DIOCESE OF THE ARCTIC — C$25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetZajac Ranch Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEMBRACE RWANDA INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetDalhousie University — C$25,000 over 5y, 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 FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Beedie FoundationDiamond FoundationThe Rennie FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…Y.P.Heung FoundationRaymond James Canada …Al Roadburg FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…The Edmonton Communit…United Way British Co…
Zlc FoundationBC21.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Beedie Foundation · Diamond Foundation · The Rennie Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Al Roadburg Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · United Way British Columbia

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 101 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 2024-10-31, 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 887416089:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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