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Kamloops, BC · Private foundation

Urban Systems Foundation

Partner with acts canada & developing world connections canada to provide financial support for education nutrition and clean water programs in uganda and peru.

C$723k
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k51 grants · C$147k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$170k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$406k
C$2,785
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITYC$150,000
DEVELOPING WORLD CONNECTIONSC$144,084
ELEPHANT THOUGHTSC$61,504
SPIRIT NORTHC$50,000
A.C.T.S.C$46,368
UBCC$34,100
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$25,000
BLUEBERRY CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOLC$20,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$15,000
YOUTH UNLIMITEDC$10,000
TRINITY LEGACY FUNDC$10,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT 36C$10,000
MAKEWAY FOUNDATIONC$9,000
VANCOUVER ADAPTIVE SNOW SPORTSC$7,000
OUR PLACE SOCIETYC$6,625
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.3M · 89 repeat orgsC$370k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

89 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
77

Total granted

C$3.3M
C$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+11%

Still filing today

93%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$29k 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

  • DW
    DEVELOPING WORLD CONNECTIONS
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$714k · revenue +21%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$575k · revenue +39%
  • AC
    Africa Community Technical Serivces
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$362k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • AC
    AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2018 · C$105k
  • PH
    PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF BC
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue -6%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k

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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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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2
United Way British Columbia

Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province. We support healthy caring and inclusive communities by strengthening vital connections to help ensure the health…

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3
Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy food to those in need. The Society provides food support to approximately 16 000 children adults and seniors monthly through its…

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4
Homelessness Services Association of Bc

The society provides support to and enhance the capacity of organizations in bc that serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness. the society provides training to front line shelter workers throughout the province. there are…

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5
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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6
Central Okanagan Emergency Shelter Society

Emergency Housing and services Second stage housing Outreach support PEACE Program Thrift Store Voucher Program Education and Prevention

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7
Vancouver Food Runners Society

At vancouver food runners our mission is to respond to the unfortunate disconnect between the fact that over 40% of all food produced is wasted or lost while one in nine household in british columbia are food insecure. oue aim is to…

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8
Kaslo Community Services Society

Counselling and Support Programs: Stopping the Violence / Victim Services / Safe Homes / Family Support / PEACE / Child and Youth Mental Health / Adult Mental Health and Substance Use / Mental Health Outreach / Children & Youth with…

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9
Sea to Sky Community Services Society

The Society offers more then 42 programs in the Sea to Sky Corridor supported by various funding sources including individual donors foundations and government partners. Adult and Family Services provides clinical and therapeutic care for…

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10
Northern John Howard Society of Bc

Homelessness prevention program homelessness partnering strategy program family violence prevention stop program northern john howard society rental housing.

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11
Community Kitchen Program of Calgary Society

Calgary cooking - teaching low income families to buy and prepare meals at a low price. good food box program - teaching low income families to buy fresh fruit and vegetables at an affordable cost. sprinz around program - provide food to…

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12
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Place Society and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Alberta. 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

163 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. 163 of the 178 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
158/163
Grantees still filing
116/163
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 budgetDEVELOPING WORLD CONNECTIONS — C$714,141 over 8y, 10.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$575,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAfrica Community Technical Serivces — C$362,058 over 7y, 11% of budgetSPIRIT NORTH — C$191,670 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetELEPHANT THOUGHTS — C$163,310 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$127,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$123,725 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$113,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThompson Rivers University Foundation — C$79,385 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT — C$79,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER BOARD OF EDUCATION (BRITTANNIA STREET TO PEAK) — C$42,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH UNLIMITED — C$41,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER ADAPTIVE SNOW SPORTS — C$33,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetMUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$30,540 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF BC — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOVE LEAVE OUT VIOLENCE SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetHELP CHANGE MY CITY YOUTH TRUST SOCIETY — C$24,916 over 2y, 63% of budgetTRINITY LEGACY FOUNDATION — C$24,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBLUEBERRY CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL — C$23,247 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMOTIONBALL FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS — C$21,145 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKAMLOOPS UNITED CHURCH — C$19,050 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN INTERIOR BC — C$17,895 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN BAGGING 4 CALGARY STREET KIDS — C$17,304 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMAKEWAY FOUNDATION — C$17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OKANAGAN — C$17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$15,565 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSURREY URBAN MISSION SOCIETY — C$14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNIGHTSHIFT STREET MINISTRIES — C$14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRITANNIA SECONDARY — C$13,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOUTHERN ALBERTA SOCIETY — C$13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELEVATION OUTDOORS — C$12,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHERO WORK PROGRAM SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM — C$10,999 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN FOOD BANK — C$10,298 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KAMLOOPS — C$9,440 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOUR PLACE SOCIETY — C$8,890 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLICK CONTRIBUTING TO LIVES OF INNER CITY KIDS — C$8,800 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMACDONALD PARK NEIGHBOURHOOD ASSOC — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$8,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SEA FOUNDATION (COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR) — C$8,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$8,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterior Community Services — C$7,843 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUP SISTERS — C$7,567 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetIYAHRHE NAKODA FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFORT ST. JOHN LITERACY SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWRENCH — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLII MICHIF OTIPEMISIWAK — C$7,110 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

First West FoundationThe Stollery Charitab…United Way of Norther…Centra Cares Foundati…Central Okanagan Foun…Bc Government Employe…TELUS Friendly Future…The Western Communiti…United Way British Co…Raymond James Canada …The Home Depot Canada…Atco Gas Employees' C…
First West FoundationBC17.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First West Foundation · The Stollery Charitable Foundation · United Way of Northern British Columbia · Centra Cares Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Western Communities Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund

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 178 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 teaching institutions.

Source object 887693497:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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