Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization
University of British Columbia
Post Secondary Education & Research
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k10 grants · C$34k
- C$10k–50k13 grants · C$299k
- C$50k–250k6 grants · C$642k
- C$250k+3 grants · C$1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABH Partners LLC | C$620,297 |
| DWI Leibniz Institut fur Interaktive Materialien e.V. | C$615,646 |
| Walimu | C$454,465 |
| Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian | C$181,372 |
| International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management | C$157,785 |
| Zoological Soc. of London - Philippines | C$116,000 |
| National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry | C$72,943 |
| Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council | C$63,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$50,000 |
| Fundacion UCR | C$42,817 |
| Softree Technical Systems Inc | C$34,364 |
| Fund.Institut D'Investigacio Biomedica Bellvitge | C$30,027 |
| Victoria Cardiac Arrhythmia Trials Incorporated | C$30,000 |
| Fundacion Marviva | C$27,435 |
| This Space Belongs to You Society (This Space) | C$25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 34% of grant dollars (C$1.4M). The 66% that went abroad (C$2.6M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 66% of all-years giving (C$2.6M)
8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 30 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.6M 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
- RSROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA2× · 2017–2018 · C$34k · revenue +75%
- VCVancouver Chinatown Foundation2× · 2019–2023 · C$25k · revenue +145%
- VAVGH and UBC Hospital Foundation2× · 2022–2024 · C$14k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- RHRICK HANSEN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · C$1.3M · revenue +9%
- CUCornell Universityone grant, 2022 · C$6k
- CCCANADIAN COUNCIL FOR ABORIGINAL BUSINESSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +166%
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.
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…
BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…
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…
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…
The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.
Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities
The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…
Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…
The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.
Sfu offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the faculties of applied science arts and social services beedie school of business education environment health sciences sciences and communication arts and technology. the university…
Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.
The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian Residential School Survivors Society and the most unlike its peers is Cool Arts Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
31 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. 31 of the 59 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.
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.
- Who funds RICK HANSEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds Indian Residential School Survivors Scociety ↗
- Who funds Vancouver Chinatown Foundation ↗
- Who funds VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN COUNCIL FOR ABORIGINAL BUSINESS ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds YMCAS OF QUEBEC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Stqeeye Learning Society ↗
- Who funds Aunt Leah's place ↗
- Who funds KPU Foundation ↗
- Who funds Central Okanagan Food Bank ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COLLEGE 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.
Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Canada Gives · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust
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.