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Richmond, BC · Charitable organization

Wcb Helping Hands

Employee payroll deduction program annual fundraisers and miscellaneous donations to helping hands distributed to registered charities.

C$84k
Granted FY2023
116
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k115 grants · C$69k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
C$400
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$92k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNDESIGNATEDC$15,158
UNITED WAY GREATER VICTORIAC$4,070
CANADIAN RED CROSS LOWER MAILANDC$3,980
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$2,897
CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICEC$2,573
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$2,496
SURREY HOSPITAL AND OUTPATIENT CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$2,145
QMUNITYC$2,013
CANADIAN DIABETES SOCIETYC$1,845
CENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANKC$1,677
SHARE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$1,632
BC LUPUS SOCIETYC$1,560
SPCA - RICHMOND BRANCHC$1,560
SALVATION ARMY PRINCE GEORGE COMMUNITY CHURCHC$1,350
AUTISM SOCIETY OF BCC$1,338
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$127k). The 22% that went abroad (C$35k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 22% of all-years giving (C$35k)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$156k · 86 repeat orgsC$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

86 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
16

Total granted

C$156k
C$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+3%

Still filing today

94%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • CC
    CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$5k · revenue +5%
  • CD
    CANADIAN DIABETES SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$4k · revenue +5%
  • SR
    SPCA - RICHMOND BRANCH
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$4k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • T2
    TEMP - 2022 MISCELLANEOUS CHARITY
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k
  • MH
    MOOSE HIDE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$470 · revenue -17%
  • VH
    VANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$300 · revenue -22%

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.

1
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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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
Victoria Humane Society

The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…

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4
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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5
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Society Branch

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation services. The Centre investigates and evaluates the occurrence…

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6
Farmfolk/Cityfolk Society

FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a…

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7
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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8
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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9
Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society

This is Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society's (VAMMR) first year of operations as a registered charity and is a global leader in marine mammal rescue research and rehabilitation. VAMMR responds to over 300 marine mammal…

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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
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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12
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. Variety funds renovations equipment…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way British Columbia 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.

03the grantee network

112 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. 112 of the 117 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/112
Grantees still filing
71/112
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 budgetSALVATION ARMY PRINCE GEORGE COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$6,144 over 2y, 15% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,983 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$5,368 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$5,277 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS LOWER MAILAND — C$4,945 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY GREATER VICTORIA — C$4,135 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN DIABETES SOCIETY — C$4,065 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA - RICHMOND BRANCH — C$3,976 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND FOOD BANK — C$3,915 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSURREY HOSPITAL AND OUTPATIENT CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$2,935 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$2,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQMUNITY — C$2,273 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$2,189 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — C$2,154 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF B.C. — C$2,148 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF BC — C$1,981 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$1,958 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC LUPUS SOCIETY — C$1,950 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$1,735 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$1,534 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCKNW ORPHANS' FUND — C$1,515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,465 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$1,455 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$1,434 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING — C$1,378 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARCHWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$1,364 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBATTERED WOMENS SUPPORT SERVICES — C$1,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION — C$1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION — C$1,288 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetNANAIMO LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — C$1,259 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY — C$1,229 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBC LUNG ASSOCIATION — C$1,209 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE CANADA — C$1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS SOCIETY — C$1,199 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INJURED MOTORCYCLISTS — C$1,170 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$1,170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAMLOOPS FOOD BANK — C$1,154 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY — C$1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$1,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ORPHAN KITTEN RESCUE ASSOCIATION — C$1,020 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ME/FM ACTION NETWORK — C$1,010 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCH — C$974 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TERRACE CHURCH'S FOOD BANK — C$949 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$929 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNELSON FOOD CUPBOARD SOCIETY — C$869 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$849 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR INTERGENERATIONAL PROGRAMS — C$845 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

Telus Employees Chari…Bc Government Employe…Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Ocean Wise Conservati…Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…The Hamber FoundationFirst West FoundationJewish Federation of …Vancouver FoundationLohn Foundation
Telus Employees Charitable TrustAB22× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · First West Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Lohn 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 117 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization 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 889496774:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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