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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Iranian-Canadian Benevolent Foundation

We continue to financially support canadian chartiable organizations by gifting funds in aid of health/medical research and services; education/literacy programs; social services and cultural activities.

C$183k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$130k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k18 grants · C$33k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$130k
C$1,500
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF BCC$130,000
YWCA METRO VANCOUVERC$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$5,500
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
SICKKIDS FOUNDATION (TORONTO)C$4,500
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$3,500
ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$2,000
DEFEAT MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY CANADAC$2,000
PALS ADULTS SERVICES SOCIETYC$2,000
ST.PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$1,500
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$1,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$1,000
THE VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETYC$1,000
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$1,000
CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICEC$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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$885k · 25 repeat orgsC$55k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
28

Total granted

C$885k
C$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+23%

Still filing today

88%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$410k · revenue +55%
  • YM
    YWCA METRO VANCOUVER
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$130k · revenue +51%
  • SP
    ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$89k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • SS
    ST.GEORGE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +25%
  • PA
    PALS AUTISM SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k
  • UW
    UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k

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
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
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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4
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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5
Sunny Hill Foundation for Children

To provide funding to sunny hill health centre for children (part of the bc children's hospital a program of provincial health services authority) for research equiment purchases education health promotion and program development.

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6
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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7
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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8
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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9
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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10
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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11
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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12
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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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 River City Squash Organization. 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

50 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. 50 of the 58 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
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$410,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA METRO VANCOUVER — C$130,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$88,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPALS AUTISM SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$34,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEFEAT MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY CANADA — C$32,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$16,100 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$15,560 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$14,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANUCKS PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION (TORONTO) — C$12,857 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST.GEORGE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$9,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetSASKATOON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DR. R.E.M LEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$4,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPALS ADULTS SERVICES SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY OF BC — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEEKOO PHILANTROPIC SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION BC — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGEWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PAC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetORDER OF ST. JOHN — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDREN — C$800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBANTING MIDDLE SCHOOL - SCHOOL DISTRICT 43 — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN NATIVE YOUTH ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANGLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER CITY SQUASH — C$500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBRAIN TUMOUR FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTFL TECHNOLOGY FOR LIVING SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBULLYING CANADA — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF BC — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER CANADA — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetM.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION — C$140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT SHELTER TERRA HOUSE — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$93 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.

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.

Lohn FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…United Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationVancity Community Fou…Vancouver FoundationRaymond James Canada …The Hamber FoundationTelus Employees Chari…Chan Family FoundationLoyal Protestant Asso…
Lohn FoundationBC14.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lohn Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Chan Family Foundation · Loyal Protestant Association

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 58 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 organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 899432314:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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