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Burnaby, BC · Private foundation

The Rix Family Foundation

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C$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$325k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$550k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.4M
C$20,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
UBC - RIX PROFESSORSHIP IN LAB QUALITYC$370,000
VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$200,000
TWO WORLDS CANCER COLLABORATION FOUNDATIONC$100,000
CKNW KIDS' FUNDC$100,000
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$100,000
WORLD VISION CANADAC$50,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$45,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$35,000
VANCOUVER FIREFIGHTERS CHARITIESC$30,000
NORTH SHORE RESCUE TEAM SOCIETYC$25,000
PADSC$20,000
FRIENDS OF HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONALC$20,000
BCSPCAC$20,000
BC GUIDE DOGC$20,000
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$11M · 25 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
19

Total granted

C$11M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+72%

Still filing today

96%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$155k 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 CANCER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.9M · revenue +64%
  • UR
    UBC - RIX PROFESSORSHIP IN LAB QUALITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue +26%
  • VU
    VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · C$415k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST. PAULS FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$500k · revenue +83%
  • TE
    THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue +66%
  • WV
    World Vision Canada
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k

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
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

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

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7
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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8
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central City Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Peace Officers Memorial Ribbon 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

47 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. 47 of the 52 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
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 budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$5,866,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetUBC - RIX PROFESSORSHIP IN LAB QUALITY — C$1,570,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTWO WORLD'S CANCER COLLABORATION FOUNDATION — C$846,250 over 6y, 35% of budgetCKNW KIDS' FUND — C$817,600 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetST. PAULS FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$415,010 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Shore Rescue Team Society — C$225,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetCrofton House School — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSalvation Army — C$105,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAlzheimer's Society of BC — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTWO WORLDS CANCER COLLABORATION FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Canada — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBCSPCA — C$80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBC GUIDE DOG — C$80,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetA HOME FOR HOOVES FARM SANCTUARY — C$70,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPADS — C$70,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetThe Mel Jr. & Marty Zajac Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL — C$45,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC ALZHEIMER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetVANCOUVER FIREFIGHTERS CHARITIES — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDREN — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetArts Umbrella Association — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDelta Life Skills Society — C$15,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF BC — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY FOOD BANK — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCANUCKS PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAYS OF HOPE FOR UGANDA — C$10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL RIBBON SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetMCEWEN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST — C$10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCENTRAL CITY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY TRANSITION SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAPS-REGIONAL ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER CHAMBER CHIOR — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER CANADA — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetODD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY — C$2,520 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL WRITERS FESTIVAL SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORK OF YOUR HAND CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$1,000 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.

United Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…Ocean Wise Conservati…Al Roadburg FoundationZlc FoundationVancity Community Fou…Vancouver FoundationAqueduct FoundationTelus Employees Chari…Bc Government Employe…The Hamber FoundationThe Connor Clark & L…
United Way British ColumbiaBC14.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Al Roadburg Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Hamber Foundation · The Connor Clark & Lunn 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 52 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 organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 119121317:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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