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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The River Foundation

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C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$220k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k14 grants · C$283k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$1.1M
C$28,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$220,000
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$220,000
CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOISPCEC$190,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHOREC$190,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA GUIDE DOG SERVICESC$104,479
BC SPCAC$100,000
BABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETYC$50,000
BC PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS' BURN FUNDC$35,000
THE ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATREC$30,000
LIONS GATE HOSPIITAL FOUNDATIONC$30,000
VANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETYC$28,000
VANCOUVER RAPE RELIEF & WOMEN'S SHELTERC$25,000
BIG SISTERS OF BC LOWER MAINLANDC$24,000
VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$22,000
PARKINSON SOCIETY BRITISH COLUMBIAC$15,000
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.7M · 26 repeat orgsC$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
9

Total granted

C$7.7M
C$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • BC
    BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +38%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +24%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVIES OF THE NORTH SHORE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • AS
    ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF B.C.
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k
  • FH
    Forward House Community Societygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +48%
  • CF
    Canadian Federation of University Women
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +22%

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
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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2
Victoria Humane Society

The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…

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3
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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4
Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society

This is Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society's (VAMMR) first year of operations as a registered charity and is a global leader in marine mammal rescue research and rehabilitation. VAMMR responds to over 300 marine mammal…

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5
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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6
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Society Branch

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation services. The Centre investigates and evaluates the occurrence…

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7
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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8
Victoria Sexual Assault Centre Society

VSAC provides crisis intervention justice-related support services and counselling programs for those affected by sexual assault and/or childhood sexual abuse. The Sexual Assault Response Team provides 24-hour emotional support to recent…

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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
Special Olympics British Columbia Society

Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Etra Therapeutic Riding Association. 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

33 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. 33 of the 35 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
28/33
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 budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$1,397,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$1,270,276 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVIES OF THE NORTH SHORE — C$1,250,208 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$1,055,207 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBC SPCA — C$560,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVGH & UBC Hospital Foundation — C$301,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY — C$220,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA GUIDE DOG SERVICES — C$209,479 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetVancouver Rape Relief & Women's shelter — C$184,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBig Sisters of BC Lower Mainland — C$163,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE — C$138,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBC PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS' BURN FUND — C$136,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPIITAL FOUNDATION — C$132,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$102,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBABYGOROUND HELPING FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS FOUNDATION OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$84,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$76,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR HOPE — C$72,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetBrockton Preparatory School — C$65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOCEANSIDE STROKE RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$58,500 over 8y, 59% of budgetCANADIAN TIRE JUMPSTART CHARITIES — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION EYESIGHT CANADA — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$36,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHAPPY HERD FARM SANCTUARY — C$29,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF B.C. — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetForward House Community Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCanadian Federation of University Women — C$10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetOceanside Building Learning Together Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetETRA Therapeutic Riding Association — C$5,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetQualicum Cat Rescue — C$5,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetVSO SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetW.A.V.A./R.C.C.: WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN / RAPE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANOOSE COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

The Hamber FoundationNicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Raymond James Canada …Bc Government Employe…Vancity Community Fou…Ocean Wise Conservati…Centra Cares Foundati…BenefAction FoundationVancouver FoundationParksville - Qualicum…The Andrew Mahon Foun…
The Hamber FoundationBC13.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Centra Cares Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Parksville - Qualicum Community Foundation · The Andrew Mahon 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 35 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 847508611:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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