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Richmond, BC · Public foundation

Unipharm & Medicine Centre Pharmacies Charitable Foundation

The Charity's key area of focus is to support and encourage underfunded charities that offer essential services support and research to those suffering from chronic and critical illnesses.

C$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$137k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Kidney Foundation of CanadaC$2,500
Volunteer Cancer Drivers SocietyC$2,000
The Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of BCC$2,000
Richmond Food BankC$1,650
Canadian Cancer SocietyC$1,500
Central Okanagan Food BankC$1,500
Children's organ Transplant Society (COTS)C$1,500
Critter Care Wildlife SocietyC$1,500
Developing World ConnectionsC$1,500
First Baptist Church NanaimoC$1,500
ICANC$1,500
Nanaimo Community FoundationC$1,000
Loaves and Fishes Food Bank FoundationC$1,000
Cariboo Chilcotin Child Development Centre AssociationC$1,000
Central Okanagan Association for Cardiac HealthC$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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$265k · 60 repeat orgsC$74k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
67

Total granted

C$265k
C$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+27%

Still filing today

97%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$14k 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

  • TK
    The Kidney Foundation of Canada, BC Branch
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$28k · revenue +23%
  • NC
    NANAIMO COMMUNITY HOSPICE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$23k · revenue +109%
  • VC
    Volunteer Cancer Drivers Society
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$13k · revenue +344%

Funded once

  • VF
    Victoria Faulkner Woman's Centregraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +110%
  • MN
    MELANOMA NETWORK CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +99%
  • AS
    ARTHRITIS SOCIETY BC & YUKON DIVISION
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +23%

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.

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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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2
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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3
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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4
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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5
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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6
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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7
Vancouver Island Health Authority

Island health plans and delivers health care services to the residents of vancouver island in the province of british columbia. health care services include but are not limited to acute care long-term care home support addictions mental…

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8
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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9
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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10
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Society Branch

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation services. The Centre investigates and evaluates the occurrence…

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11
Comox Bay Care Society

Improving access to healthcare and related services through relationship building with individuals who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness in the comox valley.

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12
Nutritionlink Services Society

Nutritionlink services society (nls) promotes and enhances eating choices for people and communities in british columbia. nls works in collaboration with others to enhance individuals' ability to make healthy food choices. nls supports the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connexus Community Resources Society and the most unlike its peers is 3H Craftworks Society. 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

137 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. 137 of the 141 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)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/137
Grantees still filing
98/137
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Kidney Foundation of Canada, BC Branch — C$27,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNANAIMO COMMUNITY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$23,477 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetVolunteer Cancer Drivers Society — C$13,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetAga Khan Foundation — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRichmond Food Bank Society — C$11,690 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCrisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre for BC — C$11,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCritter Care Wildlife Society — C$9,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada — C$8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetICAN — C$8,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCentral Okanagan Association for Cardiac Health — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$7,186 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY COMMUNITY OF HOPE SOCIETY — C$6,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetPOWER TO BE — C$6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetShine Through the rain Foundation — C$6,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDeveloping World Connections — C$5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNANAIMO REGION JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR HOPE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEED2 SUICIDE PREVENTION EDUCATION AND SUPPORT — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES FOOD BANK FOUNDATION — C$3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLangley Memorial Hospital Foundation — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetParkinson Society of BC — C$3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABBOTSFORD HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$3,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetROYAL INLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVictoria Faulkner Woman's Centre — C$3,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNANAIMO & DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$3,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAIR CADET LEAGUE OF CANADA - 259 — C$3,050 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCowichan District Hospital Foundation — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC ALZHEIMER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF TROVAL — C$3,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF YUKON — C$2,600 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA NETWORK CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChabad Richmond — C$2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY BC & YUKON DIVISION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA HOSPITAL & COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetC.H.I.L.D. FOUNDATION — C$2,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFORT ST JOHN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARTH HOMER SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope Air — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoap for Hope Foundation — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBC Epilepsy Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPender Island Recreation — C$1,950 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPENDER ISLAND FIRE PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$1,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEDNER ISLAND CELTIC MUSIC SOCIETY — C$1,700 over 7y, 7.8% 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.

Lohn FoundationFirst West FoundationThe Tong and Geraldin…The Hamber FoundationBc Government Employe…United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woo…The Victoria Foundati…Nicola Wealth Private…The Joseph Segal Fami…Al Roadburg Foundation
Lohn FoundationBC22.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lohn Foundation · First West Foundation · The Tong and Geraldine Louie Family Fondation · The Hamber Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woodward's Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation · Al Roadburg 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 141 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 2024-01-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 856477856:2024-01-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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