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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Ruth E and William H Ross Foundation

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C$753k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$682k
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$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$66k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$682k
C$11,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FED OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$682,000
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEVC$45,000
HAR EL-THE NORTH SHORE CENTRE FOR JEWISH LIFEC$11,000
CANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
ST PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.5M · 16 repeat orgsC$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

C$7.5M
C$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • JF
    JEWISH FED OF GREATER VANCOUVER
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.3M · revenue +191%
  • CA
    CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$846k · revenue +623%
  • TO
    THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$203k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$2k · revenue +64%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLANDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue +27%
  • VS
    VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue +52%

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 Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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2
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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3
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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4
Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society

Working towards building a new concert hall and theatre in vancouver.

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5
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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6
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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7
Vancouver Symphony Foundation

Invest income earned on all funds. the vancouver symphony society is the beneficiary of the earned income.

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8
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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9
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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10
Vancouver Opera Endowment Trust Fund

Assisting organizations whose purpose is the development and production of opera in bc or elsewhere in canada.

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11
Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Society

Conducts a competition to award scholarship to bc youth studying music. provide educational workshops master classes and seminars to young musicians in british columbia.

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12
Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation

To provide funding to the vancouver art gallery association to assist with the cost of maintaining a public art gallery and financial support of traveling exhibitions education and public programs and in acquiring works of art.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance and the most unlike its peers is Education Without Borders Foundation. 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 27 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
23/26
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FED OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$5,311,582 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetCANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV — C$845,708 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF HEIFA UNIVERSITY — C$582,216 over 5y, 47% of budgetTHE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$202,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMISERICORDIA HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION INC — C$180,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO - RETINAL FOUNDATION FOR OPHTHALMOLOGY — C$135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$75,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetCANADIAN HADASSAH-WIZO — C$57,600 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Alberta — C$57,475 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetST PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION WITHOUT BORDERS FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER OPERA FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVancouver Opera — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY OF VANCOUVER HERITAGE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$1,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE — C$996 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC BALLET BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLE SHOLOM — C$360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver — C$360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetL'CHAIM ADULT DAY CENTRE — C$100 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.

Zlc FoundationJewish Federation of …Nicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…Lutsky Family Foundat…Lohn FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Alan and Gwendoline P…Kahn FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Diamond Foundation
Zlc FoundationBC15.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Lutsky Family Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation · Kahn Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Diamond 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 27 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 832943351:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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