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Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability.

C$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,121
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$345k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1121 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1013 grants · C$1.4M
  • C$10k–50k88 grants · C$1.7M
  • C$50k–250k19 grants · C$1.6M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$345k
C$850
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
City of SurreyC$345,163
Ethos Lab Educational SocietyC$186,889
Vancity Community Foundation (Strategic Programs)C$126,836
Finance Engage Sustain (FES)C$114,737
West Coast LEAF AssociationC$101,579
Early Childhood Educators of BCC$100,980
Vancity Community Foundation (Affordable Climate ReadyC$100,000
Pacifica Housing Advisory AssociationC$100,000
Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre AssociationC$94,080
Institute for Change LeadersC$90,000
BC Children's Hospital FoundationC$75,000
CoDevelopment Canada AssociationC$71,460
Storehouse Community Hub SocietyC$70,937
MOSAICC$70,026
Vancity Community Foundation (Affordable Climate ReadyC$68,367
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$44M
Ontario
C$2.0M
Alberta
C$117k
Quebec
C$86k
New Brunswick
C$84k
Saskatchewan
C$20k
Nova Scotia
C$18k
Manitoba
C$12k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$10k

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$45M · 639 repeat orgsC$5.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

639 repeat relationships — 385 still active in FY2024, 254 since wound down; 76 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

639
583

Total granted

C$45M
C$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+31%

Still filing today

96%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$721k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • VC
    Vancity Communitiy Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$3.5M · revenue +39%
  • TE
    The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$2.8M · revenue +94%
  • PH
    Progressive Housing Society
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$1.5M · revenue +304% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • LN
    Lu'ma Native BCH Housing Society
    one grant, 2020 · C$400k
  • 2A
    221A Artist Run Centre Societygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$303k · revenue +100%
  • PI
    Plan Insitute for Citizenship and Disability
    one grant, 2018 · C$300k · revenue -21% · 29% of their budget

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

04Your 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.

1
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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2
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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3
Vancouver Status of Women

Vancouver Status of Women's ongoing work focuses on feminist community building with women and gender diverse peoples towards equity in social political and economic spheres. The Coordinating Collective provides ongoing support to…

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4
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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5
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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6
Citystudio Vancouver Society

Citystudio vancouver program: innovation hub that coordinates projects between the city of vancouver and local post-secondary institutions by bringing together city staff students faculty and community to co create experimental projects…

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7
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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8
Vantage Point Strategies Society

Vantage Point Strategies Society exists to advance education promote excellence and maintain high standards of practice in the non-profit and charities sector for the benefit of the public. We deliver classes workshops and courses focused…

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9
Ending Violence Association of British Columbia

We provide support and training to almost 300 anti-violence programs across BC that respond to sexual and intimate partner violence child abuse and criminal harassment. We work to increase the coordination of services for survivors in the…

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10
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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11
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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12
Whistler Centre for Sustainability Institute Society

Trottier Foundation: We hired Climate Caucus to develop a national network of locally elected representatives covering all provinces and territories and to host educational workshops for them to connect learn about and ultimately deploy…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is Capilano University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

1206 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. 1206 of the 1,298 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.

32
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
403
Early backer (in before they grew)
1167/1206
Grantees still filing
881/1206
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVancity Communitiy Foundation — C$3,501,538 over 7y, 15% of budgetThe Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver — C$2,833,938 over 7y, 14% of budgetProgressive Housing Society — C$1,489,594 over 4y, 27% of budgetFraser Region Aborigial Friendship Centre Association — C$1,120,271 over 6y, 11% of budgetDowntown Eastside Women's Centre Association — C$1,081,666 over 7y, 13% of budgetSources Community Resources Society MV2016618-11 — C$862,882 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$843,554 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Community Resources Society — C$749,603 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLookout Housing and Health Society — C$711,420 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$668,332 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAunt Leah's Independent Life Skills Society — C$657,553 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetEarly Childhood Educators of BC — C$620,853 over 6y, 59% of budgetPlanned Lifetime Advocacy Network — C$515,674 over 7y, 17% of budgetCoDevelopment Canada Association — C$505,385 over 7y, 10% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$504,343 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House Vanouver — C$504,125 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetHollyburn Family Services — C$467,563 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetFarmFolk/CityFolk Society — C$442,361 over 7y, 16% of budgetSurrey Homelessness and Housing Society — C$439,506 over 3y, 100% of budgetRaincity Housing and Support Services — C$412,506 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$411,175 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSpirit of the Children Society — C$406,878 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetCanadian Red Cross Society — C$362,558 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCwenengitel Aboriginal Society MV2016640-04 — C$346,275 over 2y, 66% of budgetThe Victoria Foundation — C$341,450 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOptions Community Services Society — C$330,049 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — C$320,497 over 7y, 1.3% of budget221A Artist Run Centre Society — C$303,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetVancouver Foundation — C$301,180 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetPlan Insitute for Citizenship and Disability — C$300,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTides Canada Initiatives Society — C$298,619 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMOSAIC — C$284,605 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland MV2016345-04 — C$267,361 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetShiloh-Fifth Avenue United Church — C$257,836 over 6y, 29% of budgetOcean Wise Conservation Assocation — C$256,723 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetParent Support Services Society of BC — C$256,362 over 3y, 13% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association North and West Vancouver — C$244,753 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetWest Coast LEAF Association — C$239,913 over 7y, 11% of budgetFamily Services of Greater Vancouver — C$238,630 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAtira Women's Resource Society — C$234,980 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMegaphone Magainze c/o Hope In Shadows — C$234,489 over 7y, 38% of budgetPLEA Community Services Society of BC — C$225,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMothers Matter Centre — C$225,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCommunity Foundations Canada — C$215,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCircle of Eagles Lodge Society — C$209,142 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank Society — C$201,415 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKekinow Native Housing — C$200,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBurnaby Hospital Foundation — C$198,813 over 7y, 1.4% 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 Vancity Communitiy Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver ↗
  • Who funds Progressive Housing Society ↗
  • Who funds Fraser Region Aborigial Friendship Centre Association ↗
  • Who funds Downtown Eastside Women's Centre Association ↗
  • Who funds Sources Community Resources Society MV2016618-11 ↗
  • Who funds Simon Fraser University ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Community Resources Society ↗
  • Who funds Lookout Housing and Health Society ↗
  • Who funds University of Victoria ↗
  • Who funds Aunt Leah's Independent Life Skills Society ↗
  • Who funds Early Childhood Educators of BC ↗
  • Who funds Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network ↗
  • Who funds CoDevelopment Canada Association ↗
  • Who funds BC Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Covenant House Vanouver ↗
  • Who funds Hollyburn Family Services ↗
  • Who funds FarmFolk/CityFolk Society ↗
  • Who funds Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society ↗
  • Who funds Raincity Housing and Support Services ↗
  • Who funds University of British Columbia ↗
  • Who funds Spirit of the Children Society ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Red Cross Society ↗
  • Who funds Cwenengitel Aboriginal Society MV2016640-04 ↗
  • Who funds The Victoria Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Options Community Services Society ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives ↗
  • Who funds 221A Artist Run Centre Society ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Plan Insitute for Citizenship and Disability ↗
  • Who funds Tides Canada Initiatives Society ↗
  • Who funds MOSAIC ↗
  • Who funds The John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland MV2016345-04 ↗
  • Who funds Shiloh-Fifth Avenue United Church ↗
  • Who funds Ocean Wise Conservation Assocation ↗
  • Who funds Parent Support Services Society of BC ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Mental Health Association North and West Vancouver ↗

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.

Greater Vancouver Foo…R.R. Smith Memorial F…Schein FoundationThe Hamber FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Al Roadburg FoundationThe Houssian Foundati…Cknw Kids' FundSpencercreo FoundationFace the World Founda…Central City Foundati…Click-Contributing to…
Greater Vancouver Food Bank SocietyBC33.1× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · R.R. Smith Memorial Fund Foundation · Schein Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Al Roadburg Foundation · The Houssian Foundation · Cknw Kids' Fund · Spencercreo Foundation · Face the World Foundation · Central City Foundation · Click-Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society

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 1298 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 2024-12-31, 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 892028242:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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