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Coquitlam, BC · Public foundation

Vancouver Fire Fighters' Charitable Society

Raise fund for certain charities who carry out medical and health care research - assisted members in the community who have been affected by traumatic wounds injuries or incidents through referrals to burn organizations - give bursaries to students of vancouver - sports equipment donation - lunch donation program - health program

C$157k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$134k
C$3,350
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALS SOCIETY OF BCC$30,000
BC CANCER AGENCYC$25,000
INSPIREHEALTHC$18,200
RED CROSSC$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSEC$13,500
VGH FoundationC$12,000
BCPFFA BURN FUNDC$10,000
BCPFFA BURN FUNDC$10,000
ALS Society of BCC$5,000
PACIFIC AUTISM FAMILY NETWORKC$3,350
HOME & HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION OF BCC$3,350
RARE TRAIT HOPE SOCIETYC$2,475
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. FOUNDATIONC$2,350
THE KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$2,350
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. FOUNDATIONC$2,350
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$876k · 27 repeat orgsC$133k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
17

Total granted

C$876k
C$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+31%

Still filing today

96%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k 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

  • AS
    ALS SOCIETY OF BC
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$165k · revenue +64%
  • BB
    BCPFFA BURN CAMP
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$157k · revenue +67%
  • BC
    BC CANCER AGENCY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$113k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • LD
    London Drugsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$29k · revenue +120%
  • VS
    VANCOUVER SYMPHONY FDN
    one grant, 2018 · C$19k · revenue -9%
  • VF
    Vancouver Fire Fighters Charitablegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue +100%

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.

1
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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2
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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3
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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4
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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5
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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6
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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7
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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8
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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9
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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10
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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11
Sunny Hill Foundation for Children

To provide funding to sunny hill health centre for children (part of the bc children's hospital a program of provincial health services authority) for research equiment purchases education health promotion and program development.

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12
Organ Donation and Transplant Research Foundation of British Columbia

The transplant research foundation of bc funds innovative bc-based transplantation research to benefit the lives of organ recipients.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Home Care Foundation of Bc and the most unlike its peers is The London Drugs Foundation. 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

41 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. 41 of the 46 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALS SOCIETY OF BC — C$164,572 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBCPFFA BURN CAMP — C$156,820 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBC CANCER AGENCY — C$112,687 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$64,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$58,356 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — C$52,050 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY OF BC — C$47,494 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCKNW ORPHANS FUND — C$35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLondon Drugs — C$28,660 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIREHEALTH — C$22,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY FDN — C$19,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJDRF CANADIAN CLINICAL TRIAL NETWORK — C$18,321 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$17,175 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kidney Foundation of Canada — C$16,356 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Fire Fighters Charitable — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHEALTH & HOME CARE SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$12,790 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOOKING GLASS FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHEALTH & HOME CARE SOCIETY OF BC — C$10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLOWER MAINLAND CHRISTMAS BUREAU — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHILD FOUNDATION — C$9,940 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$9,457 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSeymour Salmonid Society — C$8,661 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSalvation Army Community & Family Services — C$7,400 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetRARE TRAIT HOPE SOCIETY — C$7,025 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTIM HORTON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION, INC. — C$5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC LUNG ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetS.U.C.C.E.S.S. FOUNDATION — C$4,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETY — C$4,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC AUTISM FAMILY NETWORK — C$3,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJDRF — C$3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVariety Club of BC — C$2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCITADEL CANINE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTRE OF BRITISH — C$1,566 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBC WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZAJAC RANCH SOCIETY — C$1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION FOUNDATION — C$1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION — C$800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THE YUKON — C$400 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Zlc FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Telus Employees Chari…Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Lohn FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…Bc Government Employe…Vancity Community Fou…Vancouver FoundationBurnaby Fire Fighters…The Joseph Segal Fami…
Zlc FoundationBC16.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Lohn Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Burnaby Fire Fighters Charitable Society · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation

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 46 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 2024-04-30, 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 867412132:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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