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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Houssian Foundation

The foundation provides grants to qualified donees to assist them in with their charitable activities.

C$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$758k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$39k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$334k
  • C$50k–250k20 grants · C$1.5M
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.3M
C$40,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUALITY FUNDC$758,333
COAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATION (COAST FUNDS)C$550,000
ACTION CANADA FOR SEXUAL HEALTH AND RIGHTSC$125,000
RISE WOMEN'S LEGAL CENTREC$125,000
WISH DROP IN CENTRE SOCIETYC$110,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADAC$106,500
NATURE UNITEDC$100,000
OXFAM CANADAC$100,000
WILDSIGHTC$80,000
PEMBINA INSTITUTEC$75,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHOREC$75,000
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$75,000
CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONC$60,000
SQUAMISH HELPING HANDS SOCIETYC$60,000
ENVIRONMENT FUNDERS CANADAC$55,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$15M · 60 repeat orgsC$469k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
27

Total granted

C$15M
C$381k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+23%

Still filing today

98%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$88k 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

  • EF
    EQUALITY FUND
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$3.7M · revenue ×27
  • LG
    Lions Gate Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +53%
  • NU
    NATURE UNITED
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$850k · revenue +463%

Funded once

  • CC
    Canadian Constitution Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k · revenue -53%
  • WH
    WHISTLER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue -7%
  • RC
    REFUGEPOINT CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · 96% of their budget

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.

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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 Status of Women

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…

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3
Streetohome Foundation

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…

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4
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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5
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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6
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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7
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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8
Ending Violence Association of British Columbia

We provide support and training to almost 300 anti-violence programs across BC that respond to sexual and intimate partner violence child abuse and criminal harassment. We work to increase the coordination of services for survivors in the…

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9
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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10
Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation

Forest Conservation Environmental education awareness programs in BC schools Climate change awareness Community engagement Mother tree local leaders program Restoring our relationships with nature Building capacity for indigenous-led…

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11
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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12
Fora: Network for Change

Fora: network for change is global network of young feminist changemakers. through our governance programming leadership development social impact initiatives and feminist research we make bold strategic investments in young women and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes and the most unlike its peers is Saint James Music Academy. 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

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 100 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/98
Grantees still filing
66/98
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 budgetEQUALITY FUND — C$3,698,333 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetLions Gate Hospital Foundation — C$1,090,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCAF CANADA — C$971,619 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetNATURE UNITED — C$850,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetCOAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATION (COAST FUNDS) — C$600,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnicef Canada — C$500,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPEMBINA INSTITUTE — C$400,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetWISH DROP IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$383,500 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetACTION CANADA FOR SEXUAL HEALTH AND RIGHTS — C$335,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FUND — C$327,500 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetTHE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$325,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$297,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY -AIDS-FREE WORLD — C$257,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHORE — C$255,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetRISE WOMEN'S LEGAL CENTRE — C$250,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$241,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetYWCA METRO VANCOUVER — C$239,166 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE FOR GIRLS OUTREACH SOCIETY — C$230,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetCANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — C$230,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$215,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetPLUSEC — C$209,300 over 4y, 41% of budgetOXFAM CANADA — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSQUAMISH HELPING HANDS SOCIETY — C$195,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetWILDSIGHT — C$160,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetENVIRONMENT FUNDERS CANADA — C$160,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$155,342 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOPTIONS FOR SEXUAL HEALTH — C$150,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWEST KOOTENAY ENVIRONMENTAL CENTRE SOCIETY — C$150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetKINBRACE COMMUNITY SOCIETY — C$150,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetFRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY — C$120,547 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetVANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$105,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPACIFIC IMMIGRANT RESOURCES SOCIETY (PIRS) — C$105,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMAKEWAY FOUNDATION — C$102,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLAND — C$101,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetZERO EMISSIONS INNOVATION CENTRE (ZEIC) — C$100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCanadian Constitution Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA NEWCOMER CAMP ASSOCIATION — C$60,112 over 5y, 29% of budgetMedecins Sans Frongtieres/Doctors Without Borders — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEARLY CHILD EDUCATORS OF BC - COALITION OF CHILD CARE ADVOCA — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWHISTLER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetREFUGEPOINT CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetHARMONY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetYORK HOUSE SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$41,222 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$40,405 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZERO CEILING SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$35,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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.

Vancity Community Fou…Makeway FoundationThe Sitka FoundationNicola Wealth Private…North Family Foundati…The Hamber FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationSpencercreo FoundationThe Catherine Donnell…The McLean Foundation
Vancity Community FoundationBC24.9× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Makeway Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · North Family Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Spencercreo Foundation · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · The McLean 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 100 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 865513618:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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