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The Howard Foundation

THE HOWARD FOUNDATION is a private foundation maintained exclusively for the purpose of contributing to qualified donees (as defined for purposes of the income tax act)in a number areas.

C$190k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$30k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$85k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$75k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADAC$75,000
BARD ON THE BEACHC$25,000
RATANAK INTERNATIONALC$25,000
COQUITLAM SCHOOL DISTRICT SD#43C$15,000
NIGHTSHIFT STREET MINISTRIESC$10,000
CONVENANT HOUSEC$10,000
SURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT #36C$5,000
UNION GOSPELC$5,000
CHOR LEONIC$5,000
SHARE FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICESC$5,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$5,000
HARVEST PROJECT-CHANGE THE WORLDC$3,500
LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,500
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 26 repeat orgsC$595k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
43

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$585k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+9%

Still filing today

88%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • AM
    ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$353k · revenue +80%
  • RI
    RATANKA INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$85k · revenue +86%
  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$70k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • AC
    ALPHA CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$100k
  • AM
    ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k
  • BO
    BARD ON THE BEACH
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k

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
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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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
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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4
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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5
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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6
Vancity Community Foundation

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…

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7
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

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.

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8
Langara College Foundation

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

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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change the World Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Highway Northshore Anglican Church. 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

38 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. 38 of the 72 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
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 budgetALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA — C$352,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetRATANKA INTERNATIONAL — C$85,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH — C$62,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOQUITLAM SCHOOL DISTRICT SD#43 — C$57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission — C$35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUBC AND VGH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanuck Place Children's Hospice — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNIGHTSHIFT STREET MINISTRIES — C$28,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt. John's Vancouver Church — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSynod of the Diocese of New Westminister (Street Outreach In — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY IN FOCUS — C$16,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBarnabas Family Ministries Society — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP KERRY SOCIETY — C$13,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCANADIAN FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION — C$11,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetARTS CLUB THEATRE — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHNS VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnglican Network in Canada (ANIC - General Fund) — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Family House Society of BC (Ronald McDonald House — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT #36 — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArtizo Institute — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER UNITED CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHIGHWAY NORTHSHORE ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHOR LEONI — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPORT COQUITLAM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHARVEST PROJECT-CHANGE THE WORLD — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANAIMO//LADYSMITH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVILLAGE CHURCH — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Greater Vancouver — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSidney Risk Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetMOVEMBER — C$500 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.

  • Who funds ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA ↗
  • Who funds RATANKA INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARD ON THE BEACH ↗
  • Who funds COQUITLAM SCHOOL DISTRICT SD#43 ↗
  • Who funds Covenant House Vancouver ↗
  • Who funds Union Gospel Mission ↗
  • Who funds UBC AND VGH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds Canuck Place Children's Hospice ↗
  • Who funds NIGHTSHIFT STREET MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St. John's Vancouver Church ↗
  • Who funds Synod of the Diocese of New Westminister (Street Outreach In ↗
  • Who funds CITY IN FOCUS ↗
  • Who funds Barnabas Family Ministries Society ↗
  • Who funds CAMP KERRY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CLUB THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SHARE FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHNS VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER ↗

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.

United Way British Co…Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Vancity Community Fou…The Hamber FoundationVancouver FoundationRaymond James Canada …Givewise Foundation C…Seedlings FoundationCanada GivesBenefAction FoundationSt. Timothy's Church
United Way British ColumbiaBC14.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Givewise Foundation Canada · Seedlings Foundation · Canada Gives · BenefAction Foundation · St. Timothy's Church

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 72 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 858624190:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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