Coquitlam, BC · Private foundation
The Steven Chambers Foundation
The foundation made gifts to qualified donees
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$95k
- C$50k–250k3 grants · C$205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA | C$100,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER | C$55,000 |
| UNICEF CANADA | C$50,000 |
| MISSION POSSIBLE | C$45,000 |
| EAST END BOYS CLUB SOCIETY | C$25,000 |
| THE CULTCH'S YOUTH PROGRAM | C$25,000 |
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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$70k 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
- UCUNICEF CANADA5× · 2017–2024 · C$175k · revenue +129%
- JVJohn Volken Academy3× · 2017–2020 · C$115k · revenue +58%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER3× · 2020–2024 · C$105k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- MPMISSION POSSIBLEone grant, 2024 · C$45k · revenue 0%
- EEEAST END BOYS CLUB SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · C$25k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
Charitable activities include ongoing programs that fulfill vyt's mission statement: a creative partnership between young actors and authors with adult theatre professionals co-creating plays from young peoples' ideas across kids' writes…
VIBE Arts (formerly know as Arts for Children and Youth) annually engages young people 3 - 28 who live or identify with the margins in free hands-on art educational programs custom designed to respond to the unique needs of each community…
Established in 2001 Movement Enterprise Society is a charitable non-profit society dance production creation and presentation platform in Vancouver BC. The Society is dedicated to producing innovative and accessible new works in…
EYA supports equity-denied youth to become environmental stewards. We provide free land-based education and paid employment training in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside engaging youth to develop skills and confidence in environmental…
The macphee centre for creative learning society (macphee centre) is an alternative creative learning environment for youth between 12 and 19 years old who are attending school but at risk of dropping out or not completing their formal…
The Roundhouse Youth Theatre Action Group program brings together Metro Vancouver youth from a diversity of Canada’s cultural groups backgrounds and challenges with professional theatre artists in the collaborative creation and public…
As canada's largest agency serving at risk homeless and trafficked youth covenant house toronto changes lives by providing the widest range of services and support to as many as 350 youth a day. a national leader we educate and advocate…
Our program offers an employability and life skills workshop experience opportunity to youth facing multiple barriers to employment. Through the unique and familiar medium of art and digital filmmaking as well as involvement in group-based…
Youth circus school for children and youth ages 5-19 in a ten month training program. Provide circus arts training for teens and young adults ages 19-25. Provide spring and summer circus camps for ages 5-19. Perform at community events and…
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…
Cwav society provides client-centered safety shelter counselling and advocacy in support of individual family and community well-being. ongoing programs include somenos transition house women's night shelter homelessness prevention program…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Vancouver and the most unlike its peers is East End Boys Club Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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.
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: Vancouver Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.