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West Vancouver, BC · Public foundation

West Vancouver Fire Fighters Charitable Society

Raise funds to gift to charities -raise funds to provide bursaries to high school students

C$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$8k
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.

C$2,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BCPFF BURN FUNDC$8,000
NORTH SHORE FAMILY SERVICESC$5,000
BUDDY CHECK FOR JESSEC$2,500
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADAC$2,500
NORTH SHORE LOOKOUT SOCIETYC$2,000
NORTH SHORE VOLUNTEERS FOR SENIORSC$2,000
ENHANCE WEST VANCOUVERC$2,000
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION POPPY FUNDC$1,000
THE LOOKOUT SOCIETYC$1,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$100k · 10 repeat orgsC$15k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

C$100k
C$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+47%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k 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

  • BB
    BCPFF BURN FUND
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$22k · revenue +67%
  • NS
    North shore lookout Society
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$20k · revenue +192%
  • AY
    Ambleside Youth Outreach Crisis
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$6k · revenue +249%

Funded once

  • AY
    Ambleside Youth Outreach Crisis
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k
  • BP
    BC PFFA BUM FUND
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k
  • CB
    CASE BUYS
    one grant, 2019 · C$500 · revenue +2%

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
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

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

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3
Vancouver Police Community Fund (Vpcf)

The vpcf donates funds to other registered charities and carries out its own charitable activities. these activities include donating food and gifts to disadvantaged families and individuals during the month of december supporting local…

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4
Vancouver Fire Fighters' Charitable Society

Raise fund for certain charities who carry out medical and health care research - assisted members in the community who have been affected by traumatic wounds injuries or incidents through referrals to burn organizations - give bursaries…

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5
District of North Vancouver Firefighters Charitable Society Local 1183 I.a.F.F.

The Charity does regular fundraising to run its initiatives as well as partners with local charities who have a focus on youth mental health education environment and sport. The Charity also does fundraising for the BCPFFA Firefighters…

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6
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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7
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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8
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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9
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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10
Victoria Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation

Calendar sales carry out charitable objectives in greater victoria and vancouver island by raising money and awareness to benefit public foundation medical care facilities medical health care research provide relief from poverty continue…

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11
Maple Ridge Firefighters Charitable Society

Helping the community through a variety of programs which aim to help further education relieve poverty and assist in life altering events. The Maple Ridge Firefighters Charitable Society continues to also support other charities connected…

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12
Vancouver Poppy Fund Committee

The organization conducts an annual poppy fund campaign around rembrance day. assist ex-service personnel their widows and dependents by providing assistance for food clothing shelter furniture utilities transportation dental and medical…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buddy Check for Jesse Society and the most unlike its peers is The Vancouver Foundation of Art Justice and Liberty. 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

18 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. 18 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBCPFF BURN FUND — C$21,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNorth shore lookout Society — C$19,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENHANCE WEST VANCOUVER — C$19,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$12,714 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Shore Volunteer Society for Seniors — C$12,500 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetAmbleside Youth Outreach Crisis — C$6,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNORTH SHORE FAMILY SERVICES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRoyal Canadian Legion Poppy fund — C$3,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN LEGION POPPY FUND — C$2,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBUDDY CHECK FOR JESSE — C$2,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetnorth shore Christmas Bureau — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LOOKOUT SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE BUYS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTerry Fox Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT COQUITLAM PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$480 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTMAS BUREAU GIFT BASKET — C$416 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIM PERRY — C$77 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.

United Way British Co…Centra Cares Foundati…Cknw Kids' FundTelus Employees Chari…Vancity Community Fou…Ocean Wise Conservati…Vancouver FoundationBc Government Employe…Nicola Wealth Private…Canada GivesCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…
United Way British ColumbiaBC9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Centra Cares Foundation · Cknw Kids' Fund · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Canada Gives · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)

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 20 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 862230695:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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