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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Wesik Family Foundation

Donation of income and capital of the foundation by way of gifts to qualified donees exclusively for charitable purposes.

C$623k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$143k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$480k
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$213k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANCOUVER ART GALLERYC$150,000
ROYAL BC MUSEUMC$125,000
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$105,000
CROFTON HOUSE SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
ARTHUR ERICKSON FOUNDATIONC$37,000
BURNABY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
ARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATIONC$25,000
BCIT FOUNDATIONC$20,000
ESTONIAN ECUMENICAL RELIEF ORGANIZATIONC$15,500
SJS ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL SOCIETYC$10,000
THE AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETYC$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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$750k · 4 repeat orgsC$523k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

C$750k
C$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+107%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$373k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
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

  • BF
    BCIT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$220k · revenue -56%
  • BC
    BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$205k · revenue -4%
  • CH
    CROFTON HOUSE SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$200k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • CM
    COASTAL MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +107%
  • TN
    THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +112%
  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA GIRLS CHOIR SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +37%

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
The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia

Scholarships bursaries awards to support education and research in architecture.

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2
Langara College Foundation

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

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3
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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4
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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5
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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6
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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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
Engineering and Geoscience Education Foundation Bc

Provide scholarships and bursaries to post-secondary students in the study of engineering of geoscience

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9
Pacific Rim Foundation

The charity creates establishes and distributes student scholarships and bursaries to advance education for the pacific rim region of b.c. capital funds are raised and secured to provide funding for the grants.

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10
Camosun College Foundation

The Foundation assists Camosun College to expand and enhance its educational programs or services not funded by government including financial aid to students at Camosun College. The Foundation provides an opportunity for individual…

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11
Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation

To provide funding to the vancouver art gallery association to assist with the cost of maintaining a public art gallery and financial support of traveling exhibitions education and public programs and in acquiring works of art.

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12
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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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 Crofton House School. 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

14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
4/14
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 budgetBCIT FOUNDATION — C$220,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$205,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROFTON HOUSE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROYAL BC MUSEUM — C$125,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA ASSOCIATION — C$125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOASTAL MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetARTHUR ERICKSON FOUNDATION — C$37,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA GIRLS CHOIR SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBURNABY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetESTONIAN ECUMENICAL RELIEF ORGANIZATION — C$15,500 over 1y, 31% of budgetSJS ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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…Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way British Co…Aqueduct FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…Diamond FoundationJohn C. Kerr Family F…Lohn FoundationRaymond James Canada …Canada Gives
Vancity Community FoundationBC10.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Aqueduct Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Diamond Foundation · John C. Kerr Family Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Canada Gives

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 14 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 768519209:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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