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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Langara Foundation

Donations to other organizations that are qualified donees.

C$1.8M
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$187k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$325k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.3M
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATIONC$1,261,654
RISE WOMENS LEGAL CENTREC$125,000
LOOKOUT FOUNDATIONC$100,000
SIERRA CLUBC$100,000
HILLEL BCC$43,000
CANADA CHARITY PARTNERSC$25,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCYC$25,000
CAMP MIRIAMC$25,000
TEMPLE SHOLOMC$20,907
LOUIS BRIER JEWISH AGED FOUNDATIONC$18,000
KING DAVID HIGH SCHOOLC$10,000
SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMYC$10,000
LEARNING DISABILITIES SOCIETYC$10,000
VANCOUVER JEWISH FILM CENTRE SOCIETYC$4,000
WHISTLER COMMUNITY SERVICESC$2,500
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.7M · 27 repeat orgsC$741k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
15

Total granted

C$7.7M
C$716k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$2.5M · revenue +115%
  • VU
    VGH UBC Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$2.5M · revenue +12%
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$900k · revenue +168%

Funded once

  • AU
    ARTS UMBRELLA
    one grant, 2021 · C$500k · revenue +11%
  • JF
    Jewish Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$135k
  • VO
    Vancouver Opera
    one grant, 2017 · C$22k · revenue +2%

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 Jewish Day Schools Education Society
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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
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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4
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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5
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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6
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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7
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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8
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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9
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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10
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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11
Chabad of Downtown Vancouver

Fostering and conducting religious jewish educating in bc

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12
Greater Vancouver Society to Bridge Arts and Community

BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Maimonides School 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

42 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. 42 of the 43 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
37/42
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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION — C$2,512,504 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetVGH UBC Hospital Foundation — C$2,461,205 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — C$900,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$500,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetRISE WOMENS LEGAL CENTRE — C$420,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetTEMPLE SHOLOM — C$377,193 over 6y, 10% of budgetLOOKOUT FOUNDATION — C$225,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetUBC — C$143,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — C$134,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHILLEL BC — C$115,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetCAMP MIRIAM — C$88,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetUnited Way — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKING DAVID HIGH SCHOOL — C$48,378 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLOUIS BRIER JEWISH AGED FOUNDATION — C$36,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLouis Brier Jewish Aged Foundation — C$32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLDS — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSaint James Music Academy — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCANADA CHARITY PARTNERS — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVancouver Opera — C$21,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWest Coast LEAF — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCanadian Friends of Hebrew University — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER JEWISH FILM CENTRE SOCIETY — C$14,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetVancouver Symphony — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Recital Society — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARTS CLUB THEATRE COMPANY — C$9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHope Action Values Ethics Culinary Training Society — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBig Sisters of Lower Mainland — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWHISTLER COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER SUN CHILDRENS FUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Laurier Institute — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetChimp.net re Lookout Foundation — C$2,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst United Community Ministry — C$2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBard on the Beach — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalvation Army — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBC Centre for Ability Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER TALMUH TORAH — C$378 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHALHEVET GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL — C$378 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER HEBREW ACADEMY — C$378 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — C$360 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…Jewish Federation of …Diamond FoundationUnited Way British Co…The Dayhu Family Foun…Lohn FoundationVancity Community Fou…Kahn FoundationR & J Stern Family Fo…Vancouver FoundationMel and Geri Davis Ch…
Zlc FoundationBC23.1× affinity21 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 · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Diamond Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The Dayhu Family Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Kahn Foundation · R & J Stern Family Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Mel and Geri Davis Charitable 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 43 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 894481423:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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