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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Zacks Family Charitable Foundation

Providing funding through donations to charitable organizations to advance an array of social programs primarily to assist those with health problems seniors children youth those in need of food or shelter victims of abuse and those that deal with crises and emergencies; also providing funding for arts cultural and environmental…

C$274k
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$212k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k51 grants · C$46k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$17k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$212k
C$750
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$211,500
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIAC$16,500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF VANCOUVERC$5,750
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATIONC$1,500
CANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAELC$1,500
CARE CANADAC$1,500
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$1,500
HR CANADA CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONC$1,500
TIKVA HOUSING SOCIETYC$1,500
THE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$1,500
HOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCYC$1,250
JEWISH ADDICTION COMMUNITY SERVICES OF VANCOUVERC$1,250
WISH DRIP-IN CENTRE SOCIETYC$1,000
JEWISH SENIORS ALLIANCE OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$1,000
BEIT HALOCHEM CANADA/AID TO DISABLED VETERANS OFC$1,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 81 repeat orgsC$27k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

81 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
25

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+12%

Still filing today

96%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k 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 FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$555k · revenue +191%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$71k · revenue +40%
  • JF
    Jewish Family Service Agency of Vancouver
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$60k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • VT
    Vancouver Talmud Torah Association
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue -7%
  • VU
    VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k · revenue +12%
  • CF
    CANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k

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 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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2
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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3
Vancouver Jewish Film Centre Society

The society was established to foster multiculturalism inclusiveness and education through the presentation of films that showcase jewish art culture history and life in our society both past and present. the vjfcs has produced an annual…

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4
Vancouver Rape Relief Society

The society operates programs aimed to end violence against women and to act as an educational force for progressive changes in attitudes laws institutional procedures and to work for the prevention of rape. vancouver rape relief society…

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5
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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6
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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7
Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society

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…

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8
Indian Summer Arts Society

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…

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9
Vancouver Status of Women

Vancouver Status of Women's ongoing work focuses on feminist community building with women and gender diverse peoples towards equity in social political and economic spheres. The Coordinating Collective provides ongoing support to…

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10
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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11
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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12
Ending Violence Association of British Columbia

We provide support and training to almost 300 anti-violence programs across BC that respond to sexual and intimate partner violence child abuse and criminal harassment. We work to increase the coordination of services for survivors in the…

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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 One Way Club. 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

111 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. 111 of the 115 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)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/111
Grantees still filing
73/111
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$554,560 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$70,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family Service Agency of Vancouver — C$60,010 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$43,950 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$33,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS BRIER JEWISH AGED FOUNDATION — C$19,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSave A Child's Heart Foundation — C$13,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$12,075 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetB.C. Cancer Foundation — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVA HOUSING SOCIETY — C$11,570 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCONVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$10,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAEL — C$9,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Seniors Alliance of Greater Vancouver — C$8,670 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetL'Chaim Adult Daycare Society — C$8,470 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$8,175 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NATURE — C$7,750 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNE'EMAN FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$6,670 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHR CANADA CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION — C$6,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIA — C$6,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWISH DRIP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY — C$6,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Historical Society of BC — C$6,300 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetQuest Outreach Society — C$6,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHadassah-Wizo Organization of Canada — C$6,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR — C$5,750 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADA INC. — C$5,550 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDoctors Withouth Borders — C$5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER — C$5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL — C$5,350 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLeket Canada — C$5,190 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER — C$5,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER WEST SIDE THEATRE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Talmud Torah Association — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEIT HALOCHEM CANADA/AID TO DISABLED VETERANS OF — C$4,920 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY — C$4,775 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-CITY TRANSITIONS SOCIETY — C$4,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSALAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT CENTRE SOCIETY — C$4,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSeva Canada Society — C$4,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCityreach Care Society — C$4,150 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVGH & UBC Hospital Foundation — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$3,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HATIKVAH FOUNDATION — C$3,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSIMBI FOUNDATION — C$3,600 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADA INC. — C$3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAST-FIGHTING ANTISEMITISM TOGETHER — C$3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCrisis Intervention & Suicide Prevention Centre of BC — C$3,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Hospice Society — C$3,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKids Help Phone — C$3,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$3,350 over 7y, 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Family Service Agency of Vancouver ↗
  • Who funds ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Red Cross ↗
  • Who funds LOUIS BRIER JEWISH AGED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Save A Child's Heart Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CARE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds B.C. Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TIKVA HOUSING SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CONVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Seniors Alliance of Greater Vancouver ↗
  • Who funds L'Chaim Adult Daycare Society ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NATURE ↗
  • Who funds NE'EMAN FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds HR CANADA CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIA ↗
  • Who funds WISH DRIP-IN CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The Jewish Historical Society of BC ↗
  • Who funds Quest Outreach Society ↗
  • Who funds Hadassah-Wizo Organization of Canada ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR ↗
  • Who funds THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADA INC. ↗
  • Who funds Doctors Withouth Borders ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds Leket Canada ↗
  • Who funds ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER WEST SIDE THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Talmud Torah Association ↗
  • Who funds BEIT HALOCHEM CANADA/AID TO DISABLED VETERANS OF ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds TRI-CITY TRANSITIONS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SALAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Seva Canada Society ↗
  • Who funds Cityreach Care Society ↗
  • Who funds VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BC Children's Hospital Foundation ↗

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.

Lohn FoundationJewish Federation of …Diamond FoundationZlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…The Joseph Segal Fami…The Dayhu Family Foun…Betty Averbach Founda…Mel and Geri Davis Ch…The Hamber FoundationThe Arnold and Anita …Vancity Community Fou…
Lohn FoundationBC42.2× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lohn Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Diamond Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation · The Dayhu Family Foundation · Betty Averbach Foundation · Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust · The Hamber Foundation · The Arnold and Anita Silber Family Foundation · Vancity Community 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 115 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 889204467:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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