Vancouver, BC · Private foundation
The Simons Foundation Canada
Fund charities that assist the underprivileged health cultural and educational institutions.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k9 grants · C$7k
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$83k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$234k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | C$179,026 |
| SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY | C$55,000 |
| CONRAD GREBEL COLLEGE | C$40,000 |
| ARMS CONTROL ASSOCIATION | C$27,541 |
| PROJECT PLOUGHSHARES / THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | C$15,000 |
| CANADIAN PUGWASH GROUP | C$2,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER | C$1,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | C$750 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | C$750 |
| VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY | C$500 |
| ARTS CLUBS OF VANCOUVER THEATRE SOCIETY | C$500 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | C$500 |
| A LOVING SPOONFUL | C$500 |
| VANCOUVER ART GALLERY | C$439 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 75% of grant dollars (C$2.0M). The 25% that went abroad (C$683k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 25% of all-years giving (C$683k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$28k went to new ones.
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
- SFSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · C$835k · revenue +43%
- CGConrad Grebel College8× · 2017–2024 · C$320k · revenue +20%
- CCCAF Canada2× · 2018–2020 · C$46k · revenue +467%
Funded once
- UUBCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$200k · revenue +43%
- TCTides Canadagraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$106k · revenue ×11
- PPProject Ploughshares/The Canadian Council of Churchesone grant, 2018 · C$74k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.
The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…
Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities
We are one of the only two theatre companies in Canada that exclusively creates develops and produces new Asian Canadian work. We bring artistic excellence from the pan-Asian diaspora uplifting narratives previously unseen. We also provide…
Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…
Citystudio vancouver program: innovation hub that coordinates projects between the city of vancouver and local post-secondary institutions by bringing together city staff students faculty and community to co create experimental projects…
CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…
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…
Ballet BC is an internationally acclaimed collaborative and creation-based contemporary ballet company that is a leader and resource in the creation production and education of contemporary dance in Canada. The company's regular…
Based in Vancouver British Columbia Turning Point Ensemble is a large ensemble (core 16 instrumentalists) recognized for its outstanding musicianship. Founded in 2002 by its musician members Turning Point has a mandate to increase the…
The Chop is a Vancouver-based theatre organization that brings together artists to create new works of theatre for audiences locally across Canada and internationally. The organization often works with communities and individuals who are…
The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arts Club of Vancouver Theatre Society and the most unlike its peers is Rosario Ancer Flamenco Arts Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
25 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. 25 of the 30 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Conrad Grebel College ↗
- Who funds UBC ↗
- Who funds Project Ploughshares/The Canadian Council of Churches ↗
- Who funds Compagnie Vision Selective Arts Society ↗
- Who funds Tides Canada ↗
- Who funds CAF Canada ↗
- Who funds Rosario Anacer Flamenco Arts Society ↗
- Who funds Concordia University ↗
- Who funds Canadian Pugwash Group ↗
- Who funds SEISMIC SHIFT ARTS SOCIETY (DANCEHOUSE) ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds The Salvation Army ↗
- Who funds War Child Canada ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds Amnesty International ↗
- Who funds A Loving Spoonful ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Vancouver Art Gallery ↗
- Who funds Battered Women's Support Services ↗
- Who funds Vancouver Chamber Choir ↗
- Who funds JOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds ARTS UMBRELLA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE-VANCOUVER,CANADA SOCI ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Heathcliff Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Lohn Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · The McLean 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.