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Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities.

C$131M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2,008
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
Regions reached
C$21M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 2008 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1093 grants · C$3.3M
  • C$10k–50k420 grants · C$9.2M
  • C$50k–250k408 grants · C$37M
  • C$250k+87 grants · C$82M
C$6,911
Median grant
14
Regions reached
C$1.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADAC$21,285,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$3,698,966
CORTES ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$3,589,645
ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$3,320,098
NEW RELATIONSHIP TRUSTC$3,000,000
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIAC$2,335,927
COMOX VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$2,156,533
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,679,776
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$1,489,320
PACIFIC MOUNTAIN REGION - THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADAC$1,457,230
NANAIMO & DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,338,100
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,264,912
BROCK HOUSE SOCIETYC$1,249,598
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVERC$1,243,545
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$1,222,311
02The need
02

Where the grant dollars land

At home and around the world.

Which regions its grants reach

British Columbia
C$530M
Ontario
C$39M
Alberta
C$4.7M
Quebec
C$2.2M
Nova Scotia
C$880k
Manitoba
C$829k
Northwest Territories
C$533k
Saskatchewan
C$474k
New Brunswick
C$294k
Yukon
C$293k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$108k
Prince Edward Island
C$25k
Nunavut
C$9k
How this is measured
Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
C$644M · 1575 repeat orgsC$47M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

1575 repeat relationships: 1167 still active in FY2024, 408 since wound down; 125 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1575
300

Total granted

C$644M
C$34M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+30%

Still filing today

94%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$13M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new.

Backed again, and grew

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$45M · revenue +55%
  • TJ
    THE JUBILO TRUST
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$24M · revenue +349% · 88% of their budget
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$22M · revenue +167% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • LE
    Liber Ero Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$6.0M · revenue -48% · 70% of their budget
  • CG
    Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$5.3M · revenue +225%
  • NR
    New Relationship Trust Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · C$5.0M · revenue +11%
How this is measured

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

04Its field
03the grantee network

1753 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1753 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own CRA returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

321
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
647
Early backer (in before they grew)
1713/1753
Grantees still filing
1349/1753
Grew since first funded

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: C$44,530,770 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JUBILO TRUST: C$23,672,110 over 6y, 88% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA: C$22,295,500 over 8y, 37% of budget2 United Way British Columbia: C$19,225,281 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER: C$16,599,131 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetBritish Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation: C$11,798,094 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: C$11,074,660 over 8y, 8.0% of budget3 VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: C$10,215,512 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetPACIFIC MOUNTAIN REGION - THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA: C$9,360,589 over 8y, 51% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: C$8,393,692 over 8y, 86% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY: C$7,281,716 over 8y, 0.1% of budget23 DOUGLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: C$6,515,529 over 8y, 32% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA: C$6,461,025 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION: C$6,256,394 over 8y, 1.8% of budget17 THE SALVATION ARMY BRITISH COLUMBIA DIVISION: C$6,009,492 over 8y, 29% of budgetLiber Ero Foundation: C$5,956,345 over 1y, 70% of budget5 THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY LA SOCIÉTÉ: C$5,530,797 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCharitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation: C$5,329,850 over 1y, 1.9% of budget9 Young Women's Christian Association: C$4,780,705 over 8y, 4.1% of budget30 The Justice Institute of B.C. Foundation: C$4,674,704 over 8y, 87% of budget14 UNION GOSPEL MISSION: C$4,489,785 over 8y, 3.5% of budget20 COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER: C$4,329,795 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION: C$4,176,719 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY FOUNDATION: C$4,035,940 over 8y, 87% of budgetOSPREY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: C$3,733,967 over 8y, 75% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY: C$3,666,260 over 8y, 23% of budgetCORTES ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: C$3,597,988 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPaul Sugar Palliative Support Foundation: C$3,593,896 over 7y, 86% of budget21 RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: C$3,581,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetVancity Community Foundation: C$3,448,642 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetVANCOUVER ACADEMY OF MUSIC: C$3,213,732 over 8y, 13% of budgetDOGWOOD HERITAGE SOCIETY OF B.C.: C$3,121,404 over 8y, 71% of budget32 Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association: C$3,049,974 over 8y, 28% of budget18 DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA: C$3,028,396 over 8y, 1.0% of budget6 LANGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: C$2,977,700 over 8y, 12% of budget16 HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA: C$2,899,804 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY CANADA / SOCIÉTÉ DE L'ARTHRITE DU CANA: C$2,886,380 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetPLAN INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENSHIP AND DISABILITY: C$2,807,768 over 8y, 85% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Vancouver: C$2,702,365 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY: C$2,605,450 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetPARKSVILLE-QUALICUM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: C$2,574,315 over 8y, 61% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND L'INSTITUT: C$2,557,674 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNANAIMO & DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: C$2,468,100 over 6y, 23% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE: C$2,449,653 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetDisability Alliance BC Society: C$2,408,734 over 8y, 34% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER VANCOUVER: C$2,343,569 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHORE FOUNDATION: C$2,313,836 over 8y, 59% of budgetBULKLEY VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: C$2,283,819 over 8y, 80% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds THE JUBILO TRUST ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds 2 United Way British Columbia ↗
  • Who funds ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds 3 VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC MOUNTAIN REGION - THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds COMOX VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds 23 DOUGLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds BC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 17 THE SALVATION ARMY BRITISH COLUMBIA DIVISION ↗
  • Who funds Liber Ero Foundation ↗
  • Who funds 5 THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY LA SOCIÉTÉ ↗
  • Who funds Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation ↗
  • Who funds New Relationship Trust Foundation ↗
  • Who funds 9 Young Women's Christian Association ↗
  • Who funds 30 The Justice Institute of B.C. Foundation ↗
  • Who funds 14 UNION GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds 20 COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER ART GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OSPREY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds CORTES ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Paul Sugar Palliative Support Foundation ↗
  • Who funds 21 RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Vancity Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER ACADEMY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds DOGWOOD HERITAGE SOCIETY OF B.C. ↗
  • Who funds 32 Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association ↗
  • Who funds 18 DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds 6 LANGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 16 HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS SOCIETY CANADA / SOCIÉTÉ DE L'ARTHRITE DU CANA ↗
  • Who funds PLAN INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENSHIP AND DISABILITY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Vancouver Foo…Seedlings FoundationAl Roadburg FoundationY.P.Heung FoundationOcean Wise Conservati…Schein FoundationSpencercreo FoundationFace the World Founda…The Christopher Found…The Andrew Mahon Foun…Deux Mille FoundationThe Houssian Foundati…
Greater Vancouver Food Bank SocietyBC17.6× affinity99 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · Seedlings Foundation · Al Roadburg Foundation · Y.P.Heung Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Schein Foundation · Spencercreo Foundation · Face the World Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · The Houssian Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data, the funder’s own annual information return, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010, read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the 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 119281640:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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