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Burnaby, BC · Public foundation

United Way British Columbia

Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province.

C$52M
Granted FY2024still arriving
752
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 752 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k205 grants · C$506k
  • C$10k–50k229 grants · C$5.4M
  • C$50k–250k284 grants · C$30M
  • C$250k+34 grants · C$15M
C$29,020
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$122M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$1,264,367
COWICHAN HOUSING ASSOCIATIONC$886,096
DIVERSECITY COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETYC$744,574
SHARE FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$636,348
ARCHWAY COMMUNITY SERVICESC$563,090
PEARLMAN LINDHOLM LAW CORPORATIONC$518,104
SOUTH VANCOUVER NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE (ASSOCIATION OFC$512,000
NANAIMO FAMILY LIFE ASSOCIATIONC$510,469
BURNABY NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSEC$487,776
ONESKY COMMUNITY RESOURCESC$485,234
TILLICUM LELUM ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTREC$482,715
COLLINGWOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSEC$466,297
BEACON COMMUNITY SERVICESC$459,763
SENIORS OUTREACH SERVICES SOCIETYC$450,576
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETYC$446,505
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$251M
Ontario
C$5.4M
Alberta
C$356k
Manitoba
C$183k
New Brunswick
C$161k
Quebec
C$127k
Nova Scotia
C$33k
Saskatchewan
C$15k
Prince Edward Island
C$4k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$3k
Yukon
C$2k
Northwest Territories
C$1k
Nunavut
C$785

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$250M · 1334 repeat orgsC$19M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

1334 repeat relationships — 468 still active in FY2024, 866 since wound down; 246 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1334
420

Total granted

C$250M
C$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+20%

Still filing today

94%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$13M 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

  • AO
    Assoc Of Neighbourhood Houses
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$13M · revenue +96%
  • 2B
    211 British Columbia Services Society
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$7.2M · revenue +48% · 50% of their budget
  • DC
    Diversecity Community Resources Soc.
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.2M · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNTIED WAY OF CANADA - CENTRAIDE
    one grant, 2019 · C$288k
  • HL
    Hiiye'Yu Lelum Society
    one grant, 2023 · C$188k
  • NO
    NETWORK OF INNER CITY COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$141k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your field
03the grantee network

1703 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. 1703 of the 2,000 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.

115
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
526
Early backer (in before they grew)
1658/1703
Grantees still filing
1234/1703
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAssoc Of Neighbourhood Houses — C$12,677,180 over 8y, 6.5% of budget211 British Columbia Services Society — C$7,173,098 over 6y, 50% of budgetDiversecity Community Resources Soc. — C$5,167,961 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetSHARE FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$4,155,622 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetNorth Shore Community Resource — C$3,587,711 over 8y, 28% of budgetArchway Community Services — C$3,534,239 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetRichmond Cares Richmond Gives — C$3,237,497 over 8y, 26% of budgetVancouver Foundation — C$2,831,805 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetNanaimo Family Life Association — C$2,818,818 over 8y, 48% of budgetBurnaby Neighbourhood House — C$2,780,810 over 8y, 12% of budgetBrella Community Services Society — C$2,747,100 over 8y, 15% of budgetOnesky Community Resources Society — C$2,668,290 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetBeacon Community Services — C$2,590,388 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$2,500,691 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetChilliwack Community Services — C$2,466,857 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetInterior Community Services — C$2,356,362 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetProgressive Intercultural — C$2,261,227 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHealthpartners Fund — C$2,195,981 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetS.U.C.C.E.S.S. — C$2,189,602 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMaple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Community Services — C$2,186,065 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetSea To Sky Community Services Society — C$2,017,861 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES VANCOUVER — C$2,008,969 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetOPTIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOC. — C$1,928,308 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetHornby & Denman Community Health Care Soc. — C$1,893,467 over 8y, 32% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE — C$1,880,563 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetKIWASSA NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE — C$1,868,148 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetSeniors Services Society Of Bc — C$1,836,251 over 8y, 19% of budgetWest End Senior'S Network — C$1,745,886 over 8y, 37% of budgetLANGLEY SENIOR RESOURCES SOCIETY — C$1,734,516 over 8y, 10% of budgetMission Community Services Soc. — C$1,635,345 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetJames Bay Community Project — C$1,581,924 over 8y, 28% of budgetRAY-CAM CO-OPERATIVE CENTRE — C$1,560,693 over 8y, 76% of budgetAUTUMN SERVICES — C$1,541,346 over 6y, 73% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$1,518,439 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDELTASSIST FAMILY & COMMUNITY — C$1,508,961 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetDesert Sun Counselling & Resource Centre — C$1,440,769 over 8y, 25% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY — C$1,429,933 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetYMCA VANCOUVER — C$1,417,461 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetVALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$1,371,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetINCLUSION POWELL RIVER SOCIETY — C$1,343,225 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetNexusbc Community Resource Centre — C$1,333,504 over 8y, 16% of budgetNorth Shore Family Services — C$1,239,465 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetRed Fox Healthy Living Soc. — C$1,166,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetWESTCOAST FAMILY CENTRES SOCIETY — C$1,157,904 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$1,156,950 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS-FRASER VALLEY CNCL. — C$1,153,486 over 7y, 46% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Assoc. Mid-Island Branch — C$1,141,017 over 3y, 13% of budgetFamily Dynamix Association — C$1,130,200 over 8y, 13% 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 Assoc Of Neighbourhood Houses ↗
  • Who funds 211 British Columbia Services Society ↗
  • Who funds Diversecity Community Resources Soc. ↗
  • Who funds SHARE FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds North Shore Community Resource ↗
  • Who funds Archway Community Services ↗
  • Who funds Richmond Cares Richmond Gives ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Nanaimo Family Life Association ↗
  • Who funds Burnaby Neighbourhood House ↗
  • Who funds Brella Community Services Society ↗
  • Who funds Onesky Community Resources Society ↗
  • Who funds Beacon Community Services ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH COAST BC ↗
  • Who funds Chilliwack Community Services ↗
  • Who funds Interior Community Services ↗
  • Who funds Progressive Intercultural ↗
  • Who funds Healthpartners Fund ↗
  • Who funds S.U.C.C.E.S.S. ↗
  • Who funds Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Community Services ↗
  • Who funds Sea To Sky Community Services Society ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds OPTIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOC. ↗
  • Who funds Hornby & Denman Community Health Care Soc. ↗
  • Who funds COLLINGWOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds KIWASSA NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Seniors Services Society Of Bc ↗
  • Who funds West End Senior'S Network ↗
  • Who funds LANGLEY SENIOR RESOURCES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Mission Community Services Soc. ↗
  • Who funds James Bay Community Project ↗
  • Who funds RAY-CAM CO-OPERATIVE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds AUTUMN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DELTASSIST FAMILY & COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds Desert Sun Counselling & Resource Centre ↗

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.

United Way Fraser Val…Greater Vancouver Foo…Ocean Wise Conservati…The Federation of Com…United Way Southern I…Wcb Helping HandsCknw Kids' FundSurrey Fire Fighters …Mel and Geri Davis Ch…First West FoundationAl Roadburg FoundationUnited Way Central an…
United Way Fraser ValleyBC25.9× affinity99 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Fraser Valley · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbia · United Way Southern Interior Bc · Wcb Helping Hands · Cknw Kids' Fund · Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society · Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust · First West Foundation · Al Roadburg Foundation · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island

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 2000 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 2024-03-31, 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 108160185:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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