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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

The Kinder Dream Foundation

The foundation provides gifts to qualified donees to enhance welfare health and education of chidlren and to support programs to enhance health generally and promote education.

C$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$2,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$350k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$10,000
SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSICC$5,000
CKNW KIDS FUNDC$5,000
ODD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS SOCIETYC$2,500
FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$2,500
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ASSOCIATIONC$2,500
boys club networkC$2,500
VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATIONC$2,000
VAN DUSAN GARDENSC$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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$406k · 13 repeat orgsC$42k 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 +29% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

C$406k
C$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k 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

  • CM
    Canadian Mental Health Association
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$95k · revenue +42%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER
    4× · 2019–2024 · C$85k · revenue +3%
  • QU
    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$50k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • TB
    The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver)graduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$9k · revenue +29%
  • BC
    BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +31%
  • VU
    Vancouver Urban Ministries
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue -26%

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
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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2
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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3
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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4
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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5
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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6
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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7
Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland

Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…

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8
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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9
Simon Fraser University

Sfu offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the faculties of applied science arts and social services beedie school of business education environment health sciences sciences and communication arts and technology. the university…

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10
Variety - the Children's Charity of Bc

Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations. Variety funds renovations equipment…

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11
Langara College Foundation

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

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12
Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Society

Conducts a competition to award scholarship to bc youth studying music. provide educational workshops master classes and seminars to young musicians in british columbia.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch and the most unlike its peers is The Tapestry 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

25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$95,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$84,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Aquarium — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCKNW KIDS FUND — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetODD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity First Foundation — C$15,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCITY — C$10,760 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC — C$10,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGIUSTRA FOUNDATION — C$10,350 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver) — C$9,035 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Urban Ministries — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint James Music Academy — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIEYT — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetboys club network — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUP SISTERS AND BROTH BROTHERS SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TAPESTRY CHURCH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVAN DUSAN GARDENS — C$1,000 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.

Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationThe Giustra FoundationBeedie FoundationDiamond FoundationCanucks for Kids FundRaymond James Canada …Humphreys Family Foun…Charitable Gift Funds…Bc Government Employe…
Zlc FoundationBC14.4× affinity11 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 · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · The Giustra Foundation · Beedie Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Canucks for Kids Fund · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Humphreys Family Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust

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 25 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 890436645:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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