West Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization
Urban Spirit Foundation
In accordance with usf's objectives: (1) continuation of career employment services through access's trades program.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY CAREER EMPLOYMENT SERVICES SOCIETY | C$4,950 |
| EJTC FOUNDATION | C$3,500 |
| VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE | C$3,000 |
| SURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT | C$2,000 |
| VANCOUVER BOARD OF EDUCATION | C$2,000 |
| NATIVE EDUCATION COLLEGE | C$2,000 |
| NICOLA VALLEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | C$1,000 |
| BURNABY SCHOOL BOARD | C$1,000 |
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- VNVancouver Native Housing Society2× · 2017–2018 · C$81k · revenue +38%
- BCBritish Columbia Institute of Technology8× · 2017–2024 · C$35k · revenue +135%
- VAVancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre7× · 2017–2024 · C$21k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- ACABORIGINAL COMMUNITY CAREER EMPLOYMENT SERVICES SOCIone grant, 2022 · C$50k
- EFEJTC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · C$4k
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.
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…
Scholarships bursaries awards.
To provide educational programs for students enrolled in schools in the district including to provide post-secondary scholarships and bursaries to graduating students and enhancing the learning environment of the school district.
The school district provides public education to k to 12 students in the coquitlam bc catchment area. the ongoing charitable program (awarding scholarships to students acquisition of educational material and equipment) facilitates this…
Public schools and board
School District No. 62 (Sooke) provides educational programs within the boundaries of the District in accordance with the British Columbia School Act.
Provide k-12 public education
Operation of a kindergarten to grade 12 school system in accordance with the bc ministry of education program of studies. additional programs are run through other sources such as strong start and ready set learn. additional funds are…
Provide scholarships and bursaries to post-secondary students in the study of engineering of geoscience
The foundation was established to provide scholarships for post secondary study. at present a $1 000 scholarship is awarded to a student at each of the eight secondary schools in burnaby bc. a student receiving an award has two years to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver) and the most unlike its peers is Nicola Valley Institute of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 Vancouver Native Housing Society ↗
- Who funds British Columbia Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre ↗
- Who funds Vancouver School Board ↗
- Who funds Surrey School Board ↗
- Who funds BURNABY SCHOOL BOARD ↗
- Who funds Nicola Valley Institute of Technolgy ↗
- Who funds EJTC 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: Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.