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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

Vancouver Unitarians Society

Conduct weekly worship services and church school for children provide pastoral care for members perform marriages memorials and infant dedications conduct covenant groups host a counselling service provide support to community groups for refugees conduct seminars on social justice and environmental issues conduct music concerts…

C$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$11k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$9k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$11k
C$3,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Langara College FoundationC$11,000
Food Stash FoundationC$3,000
Aboriginal Mother Centre SocietyC$3,000
Homestart FoundationC$2,500
Metro Vancouver AllianceC$688
Canadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle EastC$100
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$134k · 8 repeat orgsC$93k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +142% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
24

Total granted

C$134k
C$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+142%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k 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

  • LC
    Langara College Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$31k · revenue +555%
  • FC
    Flaming Chalice International
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$30k · revenue +585%
  • SV
    South Vancouver Family Place
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$24k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • PC
    Pacific Community Resources Societygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$12k · revenue +31%
  • AN
    ANHBC NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$8k · revenue 0%
  • SV
    SOUTH VANCOUVER NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$8k · revenue +79%

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
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
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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3
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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4
Vancouver Rape Relief Society

The society operates programs aimed to end violence against women and to act as an educational force for progressive changes in attitudes laws institutional procedures and to work for the prevention of rape. vancouver rape relief society…

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5
West Coast Leaf Association

West Coast LEAF uses four key program strategies: (1) public legal education and information; (2) research; (3) community engagement; and (4) advocacy in and outside of court. We apply these strategies across our work within six priority…

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6
Legal Services Society

Legal Aid BC provides legal information advice and representation to individuals in British Columbia and prioritizes providing such services to low-income individuals in British Columbia

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7
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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8
Ballenas Housing Society

Ballenas owns and operates housing for the purpose of relieving poverty by providing residential accommodation at below market rate and by providing support and incidental facilities to individuals or families who are in need. programs…

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9
Boundary Women's Coalition

Boundary Women's Coalition operates a Transition House for women (and their children) who are at risk of or have experienced violence a Second Stage Housing Program for women (and their children) who have left abusive relationships and are…

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10
Centre for Family Equity Society

Ongoing work on provincial charter challenge legal action regarding access to legal aid for poor mothers. -Carrying out public education and stakeholder awareness on public policy solutions to family poverty in BC Community engaged…

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11
Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society

We raise funds from donors for the purpose of financing programs and projects that address homelessness. we conduct and provide assistance to homelessness and housing initiatives programs projects support services and special needs…

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12
Seniors Services Society of Bc

Seniors Services Society of BC (SSSBC) is a non-profit organization located in New Westminster BC that connects adults age 60 and older living in BC communities to housing navigation services and supports that help them age well and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Burns Bog Conservation Society. 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

36 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. 36 of the 37 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)
36/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
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 budgetLangara College Foundation — C$31,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFlaming Chalice International — C$30,388 over 4y, 24% of budgetSouth Vancouver Family Place — C$24,300 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetDISABILITY ALLIANCE BC SOCIETY — C$15,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTreehouse Child & Youth Advocacy Society — C$13,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPacific Community Resources Society — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Unitarian Council — C$10,279 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetANHBC NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES FOUNDATION — C$8,100 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSOUTH VANCOUVER NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE — C$8,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst United Church — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Society — C$6,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndian Residential School Survivors Society — C$6,411 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$4,010 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$3,681 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Stash Foundation — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAboriginal Mother Centre Society — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAVEN (RESPECTING ABORIGINAL VALUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS) — C$2,810 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQMUNITY BC'S QUEER RESOURCE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$2,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIWASSA NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$2,693 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLookout Housing and Health Society — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomestart Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCLAS FOUNDATION — C$2,025 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBurns Bog Conservation Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAtira Women's Resource Centre — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWild Bird Trust — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPivot Legal Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAINBOW REFUGEE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABROIGINAL MOTHER CENTRE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOWL ORPHANED WILDLIFE REHABILITATION SOCIETY — C$1,635 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKINBRACE COMMUNITY SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDowntown Eastside Women's Centre — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetro Vancouver Alliance — C$688 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCanadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle East — C$100 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.

Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…Bc Government Employe…Ocean Wise Conservati…Central City Foundati…Raymond James Canada …Vancouver FoundationMakeway FoundationGreater Vancouver Foo…Telus Employees Chari…Youth and Philanthrop…
Vancity Community FoundationBC18.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Central City Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie

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 37 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 108102161:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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