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Burnaby, BC · Charitable organization

Variety - the Children's Charity of Bc

Programs undertaken to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing grants for equipment therapy and services to children in BC who have special needs along with their families and supporting organizations.

C$236k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$186k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$27,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kelowna General Hospital FoundationC$50,000
Royal Columbian Hospital FoundationC$40,000
Nanaimo & District Hospital FoundationC$40,000
BC Children's Hospital FoundationC$30,000
Royal Inland Hospital FoundationC$27,500
Fraser Valley Health Care FoundationC$16,000
Victoria Hospitals FoundationC$12,000
BC Women's Hospital & Health Care FoundationC$10,000
Lions Gate Hospital FoundationC$10,000
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 14 repeat orgsC$664k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$664k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+57%

Still filing today

93%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • KG
    Kelowna General Hospital Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$323k · revenue +101%
  • LG
    Lion's Gate Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$264k · revenue +53%
  • RC
    Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$244k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • RC
    Reach Child & Youth Development Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$183k · revenue +97%
  • SS
    Surrey School District #36graduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +53%
  • PC
    Pathways Clubhouse Society of Richmond
    one grant, 2017 · C$97k · revenue +7%

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
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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6
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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7
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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8
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre Foundation

The royal victoria regional high centre foundation raises to enhance facilities and services at the royal victoria regional health care. the funds are provided primarily for capital equipment facility expansion and educational purposes.

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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
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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11
Squamish Hospital Foundation

Raising funds principally for capital and other needs of the health care institutions in the sea to sky community.

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12
Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital and Health Foundation Society

The Foundation an independent chartable society raises gifts and annual funds to support healthcare equipment needs staff education patient care and comfort and special initiatives to enhance the healthcare of the Kootenay Boundary…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Music Heals Charitable 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

30 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. 30 of the 32 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
29/30
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 budgetKelowna General Hospital Foundation — C$322,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLion's Gate Hospital Foundation — C$263,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRoyal Columbian Hospital Foundation — C$244,001 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBC Children's Hospital Foundation — C$217,981 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetReach Child & Youth Development Society — C$182,700 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRoyal Inland Hospital Foundation — C$177,300 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNanaimo & District Hospital Foundation — C$148,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSurrey School District #36 — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC Women's Hospital & Health Centre Foundation — C$99,900 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPathways Clubhouse Society of Richmond — C$96,870 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMusic Heals Charitable Foundation — C$70,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetSURREY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$61,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFraser Valley Health Care Foundation — C$57,250 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetVancouver Child & Youth Advocacy Centre Society — C$35,005 over 1y, 20% of budgetVictoria Hospitals Foundation — C$32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA of Vancouver — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWachiay Friendship Centre — C$24,998 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBC Centre for Ability Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTake a Hike Youth At Risk Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNanaimo Child Development Centre — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBC Mobility Opportunities Society — C$19,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetCowichan Therapeutic Riding Association — C$13,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBurnaby Hospital Foundation — C$11,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Living Victoria — C$9,199 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDouglas College Foundation — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCerebral Palsy Association of BC — C$6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSchool District 62 - Sooke — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt.Paul's Hospital Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDisabled Sailing Association of BC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

United Way British Co…Bc Government Employe…Vancouver FoundationTelus Employees Chari…The London Drugs Foun…Lohn FoundationFirst West FoundationThe Tong and Geraldin…Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Raymond James Canada …Fondation Sandra Schm…
United Way British ColumbiaBC14.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancouver Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · The London Drugs Foundation · Lohn Foundation · First West Foundation · The Tong and Geraldine Louie Family Fondation · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Fondation Sandra Schmirler 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 32 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 2024-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under foundations.

Source object 108168709:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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