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Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

The Mel Jr. & Marty Zajac Foundation

Supporting ongoing charitable activities and programs which improve the quality of life of children young adults and senior citizens with physical mental and/or financial limitations.

C$212k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$186k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$186k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Zajac Ranch SocietyC$186,157
University of British ColumbiaC$20,000
Face the World FoundationC$5,000
The Terry Fox FoundationC$852
Vancouver Community College FoundationC$200
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$858k · 3 repeat orgsC$8k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

C$858k
C$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+47%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • ZR
    Zajac Ranch Society
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$725k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    University of British Columbia
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$117k · revenue +55%
  • FT
    Face the World Foundation
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • VC
    VANCOUVER COLLEGE MILLENIUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +2%
  • TS
    TEMPLETON SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue -76%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH INTESTINAL AND LIVER DISORDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$400 · revenue +97%

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
Langara College Foundation

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

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2
Vancouver College Foundation

Fundraising activities in support of vancouver college limited. management of trust funds and endowment funds.

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3
The Georgian College Foundation
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4
Varsity Grads Foundation
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5
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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6
The Durham College Foundation
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7
Camosun College Foundation

The Foundation assists Camosun College to expand and enhance its educational programs or services not funded by government including financial aid to students at Camosun College. The Foundation provides an opportunity for individual…

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8
The Ridley College Foundation

Financial support for education

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9
The Vancouver Education Foundation

To provide scholarship funding for students of LaBelle College, Vancouver.

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10
Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation
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11
Sheridan College Foundation
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12
Fraser Valley Scholarship Foundation

Scholarship and bursary awards to students for post-secondary education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Zajac Ranch 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

11 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
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 budgetZajac Ranch Society — C$724,863 over 6y, 11% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$117,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFace the World Foundation — C$16,400 over 4y, 14% of budgetVANCOUVER COLLEGE MILLENIUM FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEMPLETON SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Terry Fox Foundation — C$852 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH INTESTINAL AND LIVER DISORD — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFraser Valley Health Care Foundation — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Community College Foundation — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLooking Glass Foundation — C$50 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.

Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…Canada GivesZlc FoundationBc Government Employe…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…
Vancouver FoundationBC9.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Canada Gives · Zlc Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 11 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 125878314:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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