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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Varshney Family Foundation

We organize fundraising events in which donations received are used to support other charitable organizations to fulfill our mandate.

C$36k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$25k
C$2,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$327k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Foundations for Social ChangeC$25,000
Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and EducationC$5,000
Cause We Care FoundationC$2,500
Simon Fraser UniversityC$2,000
Forum for Women EntrepreneursC$1,000
The Power of Hope SocietyC$500
ZLC FoundationC$250
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$279k · 14 repeat orgsC$107k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
16

Total granted

C$279k
C$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$53k · revenue +42%
  • AK
    AGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADA
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$33k · revenue +47%
  • BC
    BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$32k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • VI
    VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL OPEN SPACES SCULPTURE BIENNALE
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue -97%
  • CM
    COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$13k · revenue +71%
  • RB
    ROYAL BC MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue +10%

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
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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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 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
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 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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6
Langara College Foundation

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

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7
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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8
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

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

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9
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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10
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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11
Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation
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12
British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation

The bcit foundation raises funds to further the goals and objectives of british columbia institute of technology ('bcit') for the development and expansion of the education programs services capital projects and other initiatives as…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maimonides School 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

33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
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 budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$53,348 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL OPEN SPACES SCULPTURE BIENNALE — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFoundations for Social Change — C$50,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDalai Lama Centre for Peace + Education — C$35,277 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$31,625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ — C$23,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROYAL BC MUSEUM — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCIENCE WORLD — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBC Social Venture Partner Foundation — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE PROSPER INTERNATIONAL INC. — C$7,600 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGROWING CHEFS — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCause We Care Foundation — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTWO WORLDS CANCER COLLABORATION FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetForum for Women Entrepreneurs — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTake a Hike Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUNDING FOR LIFE SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetINDIAN SUMMER ARTS SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOptions Community Services — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION (FOR LIGHTHOUSE VOYAGE) — C$880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER CANADA — C$508 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Disabilities Society — C$501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZLC Foundation — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaimonides School Society — C$200 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationFirst Light FoundationDiamond FoundationThe Connor Clark & L…Zlc FoundationLrj Charitable Founda…Nicola Family Foundat…Png Enterprise Founda…Peter & Joanne Brown …
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC12.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · First Light Foundation · Diamond Foundation · The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Lrj Charitable Foundation · Nicola Family Foundation · Png Enterprise Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown 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 33 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 2023-07-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 868580499:2023-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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