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Richmond, BC · Private foundation

The Lum Family Foundation

To provide funding for qualified donees with charitable purposes generally and facilitating charitable purposes in the fields of education religion health relief of poverty amateur athletics support of animals and general social and community welfare including the arts

C$306k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$41k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$255k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$105,000
VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATIONC$100,000
RICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
BC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$10,000
VILLA CATHAY CARE HOME SOCIETYC$7,500
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$6,000
CROFTON HOUSE SCHOOLC$5,000
CKNW KIDS FUNDC$5,000
CLICK-CONTRIBUTING TO LIVES OF INNER CITY KIDS SOCIETYC$5,000
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNEC$3,000
FOOD BANKS BRITISH COLUMBIAC$2,500
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$2,500
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$2,000
LOWER MAINLAND CHRISTMAS BUREAUC$1,000
ST.GEORGE'S SCHOOLC$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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$510k · 12 repeat orgsC$147k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

C$510k
C$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+69%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$124k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • VC
    VILLA CATHAY CARE HOME SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$115k · revenue +94%
  • VU
    VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$23k · revenue +43%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERISTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$17k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • BW
    BC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -23%
  • VM
    VANCOUVER METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +150%
  • SG
    ST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +25%

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
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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3
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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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
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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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
University of Victoria Foundation

To receive endowment funds directly and indirectly through the University of Victoria to maintain the endowment funds and invest these funds to provide income to support the University and its students.

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11
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Home Care Foundation of Bc and the most unlike its peers is Crofton House School. 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

27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
14/27
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 budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$200,228 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVILLA CATHAY CARE HOME SOCIETY — C$115,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$110,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRICHMOND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERISTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST.PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$14,701 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLICK - CONTRIBUTING TO LIVES OF INNER CITY KIDS SOCIETY — C$13,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$6,276 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCKNW KIDS FUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCROFTON HOUSE SCHOOL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANKS BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCESS FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOWER MAINLAND CHRISTMAS BUREAU — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST.GEORGE'S SCHOOL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPUS CHRIST — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE SALVATION ARMY IN CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH AND HOME CARE FOUNDATION OF BC — C$301 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO — C$250 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationUnited Way British Co…Telus Employees Chari…Raymond James Canada …Vancity Community Fou…The Peter Young Found…Vancouver FoundationChan Family FoundationThe Giustra FoundationAqueduct FoundationBc Government Employe…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC15× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Peter Young Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Chan Family Foundation · The Giustra Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · 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 27 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 744373135:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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