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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Jim Pattison Foundation

We financial support qualified donees in areas on medical hospital health care christian initiatives and education.

C$20M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$10M
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$10k4 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$25k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$235k
  • C$250k+7 grants · C$19M
C$250,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$283M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATIIONC$10,000,000
ROYAL VCOLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000,000
BURNABY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$2,350,000
KELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITALC$1,009,703
JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$500,000
ST. FRANCIS XAVIERC$300,000
KOOTENAY BOUNDARY HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$250,000
NATIONAL MUSIC CENTREC$235,000
PLUNGE FOR THE CURE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
CANUCKS AUTISM NETWORKC$5,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$5,000
B.C. EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATIONC$5,000
WEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCILC$3,000
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$125M · 24 repeat orgsC$15M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
53

Total granted

C$125M
C$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.6M 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

  • SP
    ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$50M · revenue +156%
  • RV
    ROYAL VCOLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$10M · revenue +24% · 28% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$5.0M · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • NH
    NIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$5.0M · revenue +419% · 26% of their budget
  • SO
    SURREY OUTPATIENT CLINIC
    one grant, 2022 · C$3.7M · revenue -25%
  • DF
    David Foster Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$1.0M · revenue +21%

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
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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2
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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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
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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5
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
Victoria Heart Institute Foundation

The charity performed an assisted with research and trials in bc dealing with a range of cardiac care studies. the charity accepts grants donations and other funds to carry out the above.

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10
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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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
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life of Canada Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pentecostal World Conference 2019 Society. 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

80 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. 80 of the 81 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/80
Grantees still filing
58/80
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 budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$50,000,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetJIM PATTISON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC. — C$47,503,200 over 4y, 91% of budgetROYAL VCOLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$5,000,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$5,000,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBURNABY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$4,700,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSURREY OUTPATIENT CLINIC — C$3,700,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$3,505,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,500,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetKELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$1,009,703 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetDavid Foster Foundation — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetUROLOGIC SCIENCES AT VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFood Banks BC — C$659,272 over 2y, 14% of budgetThe Cardus Institute — C$647,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$500,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE — C$410,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMAZANKOWSKI ALBERTA HEART INSTITUTE — C$381,994 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetST. FRANCIS XAVIER — C$300,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$275,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetKOOTENAY BOUNDARY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBroadway Pentecostal Church — C$177,400 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCoastal Church — C$155,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOne Hope Ministries of Canada — C$137,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetThe Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada — C$112,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChrist Church Cathedral Buildings Limited — C$106,666 over 2y, 14% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$105,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetRESOLVE Foundation For Affordable Housing — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKBF FOUNDATION CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDARTHMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetKEDLESTON GOSPEL CAMP — C$100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$92,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetVETERANS MEMORIAL LODGE (BROADMEAD CARE SOCIETY) — C$80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLUNGE FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMore Than A Roof Foundation — C$55,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKuwasha International Development Society — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetA Rocha Canada — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSt. Francis Xavier University — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestside Church Vancouver — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Life of Canada Foundation — C$35,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLOWER MAINLAND CHRISTMAS BUREAU — C$35,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFAITH TO LIVE BY — C$35,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetC4I — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SAMARITAN'S PURSE — C$25,000 over 1y, 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.

Morningstar FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationThe Joseph Segal Fami…United Way British Co…Canada GivesGivewise Foundation C…Canucks for Kids FundRaymond James Canada …The Giustra FoundationBeedie FoundationThe Kpmg Foundation/L…
Morningstar FoundationBC17.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morningstar Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Canada Gives · Givewise Foundation Canada · Canucks for Kids Fund · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Giustra Foundation · Beedie Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg

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 81 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 advancing religion.

Source object 890952377:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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