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Abbotsford, BC · Charitable organization

The Recreation Foundation of British Columbia

To fund activities of not-for-profit organizations in the province focusing on parks recreation culture health education and environment via: -conduct workshops for parks and recreation administration -arrange corporate sponsorship for fundraising activities -conduct annual golf tournament

C$21k
Granted FY2020
13
Grants FY2020
1
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$888k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILC$2,400
RSBC RIVERSHED SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$2,400
HOLLYBURN FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETYC$2,400
EYA ENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE SOCIETYC$2,300
PEDAL FOUNDATIONC$2,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LANGLEYC$2,000
ALLOUETTE RIVER MANAGEMENT SOCIETYC$2,000
SOUTH VANCOUVER FAMILY PLACE SOCIETYC$1,200
BALLET VICTORIA SOCIETYC$1,200
SPECIAL OLMYPICS BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETYC$1,000
BURNABY MORESPORTS SOCIETYC$1,000
ETRA THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATIONC$800
DZE K'ANT FRIENDSHIP SOCIETYC$647
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$118k · 17 repeat orgsC$43k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
11

Total granted

C$118k
C$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+74%

Still filing today

88%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
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

  • HF
    HOLLYBURN FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$13k · revenue +44%
  • AR
    ALLOUETTE RIVER MANAGEMENT SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$9k · revenue +71%
  • TB
    THE BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH DISA...
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$8k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • ZR
    ZAJAC RANCH SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$7k · revenue +30%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS FOUNDATION OF SOUTH COAST BCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$7k · revenue ×19
  • RL
    ROYAOL LIFE SAVING SOCIETY CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +62%

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
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Coast Bc

For more than 85 years boys and girls clubs of south coast bc (bgc) has provided preventative out-of-school programs for children and youth aged 6 to 18. we have 11 neighbourhood-based clubs in the lower mainland serving vancouver delta…

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2
Langley Children's Society

The Society provides a range of services and supports to over 700 children and youth in the community of Langley who have special needs. Early Intervention services are developed around age appropriate groupings: 1. Services to Infants -…

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3
Disabled Sailing Association of British Columbia

Adaptive Sailing Association of BC delivered its programs in 2024 thanks to the dedicated crew of staff and volunteers who worked together to help ASABC create a healthy safe fun and exciting time for persons with disabilities. Throughout…

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4
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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5
Bc Wheelchair Sports Association

BC Wheelchair Sports Association helps people with physical disabilities across the province lead active healthy lives through wheelchair sports by offering the following on an ongoing basis: Wheelchair Sport (Athletics Rugby Tennis)…

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6
Rocky Mountain Adaptive Sports Centre

Rocky Mountain Adaptive provides a variety of adaptive mountain sports and recreation activities year-round in the Canadian Rockies for persons with physical developmental and cognitive challenges and their families and friends. The…

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7
Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports

Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports ('VASS') provides ski and snowboard programs for disabled students of all ages at the Vancouver based ski mountains. Programs include: a variety of Learn-to-Ski programs for all skill levels…

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8
Canucks Autism Network Society

The society provides year-round innovative high quality sports recreational social and vocational development programs for individuals and families living with autism while promoting acceptance and inclusion through community engagement…

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9
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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10
Fresh Air Learning Society Vancouver

Forest And Farm Education Programs For 3-12 Year Olds. Professional Developments For Teachers. Adult And Teen Programs To Develop Their Connection To The Land Forest And Farm

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11
British Columbia Blind Sports and Recreation Association

To introduce individuals of all ages who are blind & visually impaired to various sports physical recreation and fitness activities. provide resources and education to teachers coaches officials individuals who are blind & their support…

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12
Positive Recreation Opportunities for Kids
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca Bc and the most unlike its peers is Glitch Theatre 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

26 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. 26 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
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 budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA RECREATION AND PARKS ASSOCIATION — C$34,463 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOLLYBURN FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALLOUETTE RIVER MANAGEMENT SOCIETY — C$8,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH DISA... — C$8,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRSBC RIVERSHED SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$8,400 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetZAJAC RANCH SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS FOUNDATION OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$7,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDIABETES CANADA — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEDAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetEYA ENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LANGLEY — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetROYAOL LIFE SAVING SOCIETY CANADA — C$4,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGAVIN LAKE FOREST EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$4,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNORTHERN LAMPLIGHTERS ACTIVITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$4,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetREALWHEELS SOCIETY — C$3,600 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOCIETY FOR KIDS AT TENNIS — C$3,500 over 2y, 74% of budgetBALLET VICTORIA SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH VANCOUVER FAMILY PLACE SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBURNABY MORESPORTS SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY — C$2,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLADYSMITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS SOCIETY — C$2,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetETRA THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetDZE K'ANT FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$1,618 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK CREEK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Vancity Community Fou…The Hamber FoundationUnited Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationBc Government Employe…First West FoundationChris-Spencer Foundat…Cknw Kids' FundOcean Wise Conservati…The Victoria Foundati…B.C. Social Venture P…Seedlings Foundation
Vancity Community FoundationBC13.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · First West Foundation · Chris-Spencer Foundation · Cknw Kids' Fund · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Victoria Foundation · B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation · Seedlings Foundation

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 28 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 2020-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2020. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under educational orgs n.e.c..

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 892320441:2020-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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