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West Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

West Vancouver Community Foundation

With a focus on philanthropy grants and leadership our vision is a healthy and vibrant west vancouver where everyone is valued contributes and feels they belong.

C$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
118
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 118 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k71 grants · C$214k
  • C$10k–50k38 grants · C$855k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$669k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.5M
C$6,000
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WOODS ARTS & WELLNESS SOCIETYC$1,000,000
DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVERC$493,167
HARVEST PROJECTC$189,755
HOLLYBURN COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$109,500
PAUL SUGAR PALLIATIVE SUPPORT FOUNDATIONC$100,000
KAY MEEK ARTS SOCIETYC$89,330
EESO FOUNDATIONC$73,033
NORTH SHORE STROKE RECOVERY CENTREC$57,500
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$50,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHOREC$46,050
WEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCILC$45,750
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETYC$42,500
ENHANCE WEST VANC$41,194
WEST VANCOUVER UNITED CHURCHC$40,000
VANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERSC$38,092
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.9M · 104 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

104 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
97

Total granted

C$9.9M
C$998k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+16%

Still filing today

94%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$381k 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

  • PS
    PAUL SUGAR PALLIATIVE SUPPORT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$1.9M · revenue ×11
  • TW
    THE WOODS ARTS & WELLNESS SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue ×11 · 61% of their budget
  • HP
    HARVEST PROJECT
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$415k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TF
    TORONTO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$500k · revenue -17%
  • WV
    West VancouverUnited Church
    one grant, 2017 · C$40k
  • WV
    West Vancouver Arts Centre Trust
    one grant, 2017 · C$33k

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
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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2
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

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

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3
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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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
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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6
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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7
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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8
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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9
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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10
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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11
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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12
Langara College Foundation

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change the World Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Capilano University. 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

205 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. 205 of the 241 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
203/205
Grantees still filing
132/205
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPAUL SUGAR PALLIATIVE SUPPORT FOUNDATION — C$1,850,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE WOODS ARTS & WELLNESS SOCIETY — C$1,075,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION — C$500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHARVEST PROJECT — C$414,522 over 7y, 11% of budgetHOLLYBURN COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$408,831 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetST. FRANCIS-IN-THE-WORLD ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$282,837 over 5y, 28% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHORE — C$215,201 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetDISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTRE — C$204,155 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH SHORE STROKE RECOVERY CENTRE — C$197,444 over 7y, 24% of budgetKAY MEEK ARTS SOCIETY — C$180,775 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetWEST VAN SCHOOL DISTRICT #45 — C$177,185 over 8y, 79% of budgetAVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$133,911 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL — C$110,545 over 7y, 17% of budgetSpectrum Mothers Support Society — C$101,850 over 8y, 27% of budget365GIVE SOCIETY — C$98,589 over 6y, 69% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$98,448 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY — C$97,769 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH SHORE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SOCIETY — C$95,398 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetBC SPCA — C$94,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$87,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER MARINE RESCUE SOCIETY — C$83,293 over 6y, 14% of budgetCAPILANO COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$78,300 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetSILVER HARBOUR SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTRE SOCIETY — C$74,296 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetEESO FOUNDATION — C$73,033 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$71,770 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOCEAN AMBASSADORS CANADA — C$66,031 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetENHANCE WEST VAN — C$63,194 over 3y, 21% of budgetVANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS — C$60,242 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetRED FOX HEALTHY LIVING SOCIETY — C$58,979 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION — C$57,607 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetKEATS CAMPS — C$56,676 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPATHWAYS SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS SOCIETY — C$54,447 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER UNITED CHURCH — C$50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetNORTH SHORE KEEP WELL SOCIETY — C$49,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION — C$46,450 over 4y, 89% of budgetNORTH SHORE WOMEN'S CENTRE SOCIETY — C$41,775 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetATHLETICS FOR KIDS (A4K) FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE B.C. SOCIETY — C$35,851 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetLOOKOUT FOUNDATION — C$35,832 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTRE OF BC — C$33,725 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MCCREARY CENTRE SOCIETY — C$33,476 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNORTH SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS — C$33,400 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMOTHERS MATTER CENTRE — C$32,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$31,606 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE PARK PRESERVATION SOCIETY — C$29,825 over 7y, 81% of budgetNORTH SHORE RESUCE TEAM SOCIETY — C$29,744 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds PAUL SUGAR PALLIATIVE SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WOODS ARTS & WELLNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HOLLYBURN COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ST. FRANCIS-IN-THE-WORLD ANGLICAN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE NORTH SHORE ↗
  • Who funds DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE STROKE RECOVERY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds KAY MEEK ARTS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WEST VAN SCHOOL DISTRICT #45 ↗
  • Who funds AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WEST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Spectrum Mothers Support Society ↗
  • Who funds 365GIVE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BC SPCA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds WEST VANCOUVER MARINE RESCUE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CAPILANO COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SILVER HARBOUR SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds EESO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN AMBASSADORS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ENHANCE WEST VAN ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS ↗
  • Who funds RED FOX HEALTHY LIVING SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KEATS CAMPS ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST VANCOUVER UNITED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE KEEP WELL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH COLUMBIA MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE WOMEN'S CENTRE SOCIETY ↗

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.

North Shore Community…Vancity Community Fou…The Hamber FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…Zlc FoundationPort Coquitlam Commun…United Way British Co…Ocean Wise Conservati…Lohn FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Greater Vancouver Foo…Central Okanagan Burs…
North Shore Community FoundationBC32.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Shore Community Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Port Coquitlam Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Lohn Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society

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 241 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 132171679:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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