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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Thomas Skidmore Legacy Foundation

The charity made gifts to qualified donees.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$273k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$221k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$610k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$273k
C$25,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Broadway ChurchC$272,939
Classrooms for AfricaC$230,000
Summit Pacific CollegeC$185,000
Skidmore FoundationC$70,000
Mission of Mercy CanadaC$65,000
Alpha CanadaC$60,000
Vancouver SymphonyC$35,000
City in FocusC$26,000
British Columbia's Children's Hospital foundationC$25,000
City Dream Centre SocietyC$25,000
BC Women's Health FoundationC$25,000
Union Gospel MissionC$20,000
City Reach Care SocietyC$20,000
The Samaritan's Purse - CanadaC$15,000
Umoja Operation Compassion SocietyC$10,000
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$18M · 28 repeat orgsC$329k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
21

Total granted

C$18M
C$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+25%

Still filing today

93%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k 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

  • BW
    BC Women's Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.6M · revenue +93%
  • BC
    BROADWAY CHURCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.0M · revenue +67%
  • SP
    SUMMIT PACIFIC COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • SH
    Surrrey Hospitals Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · C$125k · revenue -25%
  • QU
    Quest University
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue -91%
  • PT
    Power to Change Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue +2%

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
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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3
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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4
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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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
British Columbia Paraplegic Foundation

The main purpose of the BC Paraplegic Foundation ('the Foundation') is to acquire funds from the community of assisting persons with spinal cored injuries and related disabilities achieve independence self reliance and full community…

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7
British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation

The bcit foundation raises funds to further the goals and objectives of british columbia institute of technology ('bcit') for the development and expansion of the education programs services capital projects and other initiatives as…

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8
B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation

The foundation provides financial and human resources to charitable not for profit groups focused on community service. the foundation provides grants to qualified donees that provide services in the areas of: social services education and…

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9
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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10
British Columbia Hospitality Foundation

1. support people who are facing a financial crisis due to medical emergency by providing funds. 2. communicate and promote awareness of the chairty by attending events and industry meetings. 3. work with third party groups to stage…

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11
Pacific Rim Foundation

The charity creates establishes and distributes student scholarships and bursaries to advance education for the pacific rim region of b.c. capital funds are raised and secured to provide funding for the grants.

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12
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Dream Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is Skidmore 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

49 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. 49 of the 51 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
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 Women's Hospital Foundation — C$5,558,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetBROADWAY CHURCH — C$2,978,939 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetSUMMIT PACIFIC COLLEGE — C$1,775,700 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$1,615,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetCHIMP: CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION — C$1,575,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTrinity Western University — C$1,000,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALPHA MINISTRIES — C$685,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetClassrooms for Africa — C$460,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetMission of Mercy — C$440,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetBC CHILDRENS' HOSPITAL — C$300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCITYREACH CARE SOCIETY — C$250,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetCITY IN FOCUS — C$221,000 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetSkidmore Foundation — C$170,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetVGH & UBC Hospital Foundation — C$151,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSurrrey Hospitals Foundation — C$125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUMOJA OPERATION COMPASSION SOCIETY — C$115,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetSpartan Foundation — C$110,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission — C$105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY — C$90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetQuest University — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKuwasha International — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGloria Dei Lutheran Church — C$40,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetWagner Hills Farm Society — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPentecostal Assemblies of Canada — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCity Dream Centre Society — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCrossroads Christian Communication — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Samaritan's Purse - Canada — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Autism Centre Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPacific Salmon Foundation — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLifeway Church Society — C$10,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH PARISH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALS Society of BC — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWorld Vision — C$9,384 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY BOOTH UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetC.H.I.L.D. FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWest Vancouver Youth Band Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Push for Change Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetALS Society of Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE HILLS CHURCH — C$3,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetYouth Unlimited — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Life Church — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Sea Philanthropy (Coldest Night of the Year) — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWar Amps Canada — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst United church — C$500 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.

Allan Skidmore Family…Nicola Wealth Private…Zlc FoundationCoram Deo FoundationUnited Way British Co…The Great Commission …Givewise Foundation C…Skidmore FoundationVillage Church Bc Soc…British Columbia Chri…The Way ChurchMorningstar Foundation
Allan Skidmore Family FoundationBC14.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Allan Skidmore Family Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Coram Deo Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The Great Commission Foundation · Givewise Foundation Canada · Skidmore Foundation · Village Church Bc Society · British Columbia Christian Academy Society · The Way Church · Morningstar 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 51 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 2024-11-30, 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 892580283:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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