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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Rennie Foundation

Receiving and maintaining funds to make donations to qualified donees

C$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$2.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$122k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$2.7M
C$10,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADAC$2,729,688
VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATIONC$31,019
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,119
CANADIAN GLOBAL AFFAIRS INSTITUTEC$16,150
AIRS PROGRAM SOCIETYC$15,000
CHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$10,000
ST. PUAL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVERC$10,000
MUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$10,000
PROVINCE OF BC (GOVERNMENT HOUSE FOUNDATION)C$7,600
ACADEMICS WITHOUT BORDERSC$5,000
DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVERC$5,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$15M · 38 repeat orgsC$311k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
49

Total granted

C$15M
C$284k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$28k 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

  • VS
    VANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD (FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ELEMENTRY)
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$121k · revenue +29%
  • EC
    Emily Carr University of Art & Design
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$110k · revenue +42%
  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · C$105k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • CI
    Charitable Impact Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue +36%
  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$48k · revenue -4%
  • EC
    EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART & DESIGN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$36k · revenue -49%

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
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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3
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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4
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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5
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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6
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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7
Langara College Foundation

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

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8
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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9
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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10
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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11
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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12
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancity Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Langara College. 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

89 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. 89 of the 91 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/89
Grantees still filing
60/89
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 budgetCHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM SOCIETY OF BC — C$7,790,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Gallery — C$6,407,750 over 2y, 100% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD (FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ELEMENTRY) — C$121,462 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEmily Carr University of Art & Design — C$110,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION — C$105,200 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetVGH AND UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$92,119 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$72,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC HEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$66,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$56,019 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCharitable Impact Foundation (CHIMP) — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$48,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIRS PROGRAM SOCIETY — C$46,875 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCANUCKS AUTISM NETWORK SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBreakfast Club of Canada — C$38,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART & DESIGN FOUNDATION — C$36,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPACIFIC AUTISM FAMILY CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$33,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJDRF — C$28,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$27,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN GLOBAL AFFAIRS INSTITUTE — C$26,150 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAtira Women's Resource Society — C$25,440 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION — C$20,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetADLER UNIVERSITY VANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$18,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN NATIVE YOUTH ASSOCIATION — C$17,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHonour House Society — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCoast Mental Health Foundation — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HOSPITAL + HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE VOYAGE FOUNDATION — C$11,428 over 2y, 26% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$10,329 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQMUNITY BC'S QUEER TRANS AND TWO-SPIRIT RESOURCE — C$10,260 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST. PUAL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Public Library Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetS.U.C.C.E.S.S. FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOUR FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetOcean Wise Conservation Association — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER TO GIVE FOUNDATION — C$5,218 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPTIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC SPCA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN WISE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (VANCOUVER AQUARIUM) — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association - Vancouver Fraser Branch — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY IN FOCUS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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…Lohn FoundationVancity Community Fou…Diamond FoundationVancouver FoundationBc Government Employe…Peter & Joanne Brown …The Highbury Foundati…Ocean Wise Conservati…Aqueduct Foundation
Zlc FoundationBC25.6× affinity27 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 · Lohn Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · The Highbury Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Aqueduct 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 91 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 763041324:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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