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Vancouver Police Foundation

The VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities.

C$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$2.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$8k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$70k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$2.6M
C$21,193
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF VANCOUVER POLICE DEPARTMENT (MUNICIPALITY)C$2,559,505
THE VANCOUVER POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETYC$27,779
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$21,193
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$21,193
A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
PACIFIC AUTISM FAMILY CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$2,500
VANCOUVER POLICE COMMUNITY FUNDC$500
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 78% of grant dollars (C$7.8M). The 22% that went abroad (C$2.2M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 22% of all-years giving (C$2.2M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

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International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.2M · 8 repeat orgsC$837k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

C$9.2M
C$807k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+156%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$30k 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

  • BC
    BC CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$179k · revenue +17%
  • YB
    Yo Bro Youth Initiative Society
    2× · 2017–2019 · C$11k · revenue +247%
  • AB
    A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$10k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • SP
    St. Paul's Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$750k · revenue +156%
  • SF
    STREETOHOME FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$40k · revenue +4%
  • OS
    Odd Squad Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +212%

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.

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Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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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 Public Library Foundation

The Vancouver Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to enhance the programs collections services and spaces of the Vancouver Public Library; programs and spaces for everyone in the City of Vancouver.

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4
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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5
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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6
Greater Victoria Police Foundation

The gvpf provides funding for programs outside core regional police budgets and it has begun collaborating closely with all police agencies serving these communities local businesses regional non-profit service providers and indigenous…

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7
Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation
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8
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

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

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9
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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10
Vancouver Parks and Recreation Foundation
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11
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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12
Langara College Foundation

Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Police Community Fund (Vpcf) and the most unlike its peers is Yo Bro Yo Girl Youth Initiative Society. 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
7/13
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSt. Paul's Hospital Foundation — C$750,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$178,526 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$178,526 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAL (Police Athletic League) — C$48,250 over 4y, 57% of budgetSTREETOHOME FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$27,779 over 1y, 14% of budgetYo Bro Youth Initiative Society — C$10,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetOdd Squad Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetA BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEATHCLIFF FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPACIFIC AUTISM FAMILY CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERGEANT LARRY YOUNG MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP — C$2,296 over 2y, 18% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$1,508 over 1y, 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 FoundationUnited Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Zlc FoundationBC7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · 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.

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 15 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 community resource.

Source object 890226178:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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