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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Wolrige Foundation

The operate exclusively as a charitable foundation and to administer its assists for the sole purpose of supporting charitable purposes that contribute to the betterment of the inhabitants of canada and to receive by gift bequest or donation for the purpose of the society and the furtherance of its objects.

C$458k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$56k
  • C$10k–50k23 grants · C$403k
C$15,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFE SKILLS SOCIETYC$25,000
B.C. CENTRE FOR ABILITYC$25,000
CHILDREN'S HEARING & SPEECH CENTRE OF B.C.C$25,000
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION FOUNDRYC$25,000
PALS AUTISM SCHOOL SOCIETYC$25,000
PACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTEC$25,000
COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$25,000
VGH/UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,100
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATIONC$20,000
INDSPIRE HEALTH SOCIETYC$15,000
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION OPERATING AS BACKPACK BUDDIESC$15,000
B.C. CANCER FOUNDATIONC$15,000
CLICK - CONTRIBUTING TO LIVES OF INNER CITY KIDSC$15,000
PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATIONC$15,000
EASTSIDE FAMILY PLACE SOCIETYC$15,000
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 — 82% of grant dollars (C$1.9M). The 18% that went abroad (C$416k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 18% of all-years giving (C$416k)

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 33 repeat orgsC$103k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
11

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$44k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • SP
    ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION FOUNDRY
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$140k · revenue +83%
  • VH
    VGH/UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION & TRANSPLANT RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$137k · revenue +34%
  • CM
    COAST MENTAL HEALTH
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$130k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k
  • BA
    BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS OF GREATER VANCOUVER
    one grant, 2019 · C$6k · revenue +19%
  • IM
    INTERSECTIONS MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$6k · revenue +24%

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.

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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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2
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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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
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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5
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

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

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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
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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8
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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9
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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10
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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11
Canuck Place Children's Hospice

Canuck Place Children’s Hospice is British Columbia and the Yukon’s pediatric palliative care program. Over 920 children living with life-threatening illnesses and families from five provincial health regions receive Canuck Place inpatient…

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12
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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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 Pals Autism 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

44 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. 44 of the 49 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)
44/44
Grantees still filing
36/44
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 budgetST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION FOUNDRY — C$140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVGH/UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION & TRANSPLANT RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$137,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH — C$130,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPALS AUTISM SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$110,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFE SKILLS SOCIETY — C$105,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARING & SPEECH CENTRE OF B.C. — C$105,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetB.C. CENTRE FOR ABILITY — C$95,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$66,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$65,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIDSAFE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$64,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYWCA — C$62,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$57,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEASTSIDE FAMILY PLACE SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetFOOD STASH FOUNDATION — C$54,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetHEALTH AND HOME CARE SOCIETY OF BC — C$52,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION OPERATING AS BACKPACK BUDDIES — C$44,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUBC - FACULTY OF MEDICINE — C$37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SISTERS OF BC — C$29,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCLICK - CONTRIBUTING TO LIVES OF INNER CITY KIDS — C$25,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetLOOKING GLASS FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetADAPTIVE SAILING ASSOCIATION OF BC (DSA) — C$19,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD — C$19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWRITER'S EXCHANGE SOCIETY — C$19,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCRISIS CENTRE — C$18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINDSPIRE HEALTH SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetM. S. SOCIETY OF CANADA - B.C. DIVISION — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN TEAMS OF CANADA — C$13,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCASSIE & FRIENDS — C$13,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVANCOUVER FOOD RUNNERS — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERSECTIONS MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetB.C. SPORTS HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOM TO MOM CHILD POVERTY INITIATIVE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENT DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOM 217 FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALLANISH SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetORDER OF ST. JOHN — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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…United Way British Co…Ocean Wise Conservati…Vancouver FoundationVancity Community Fou…Bc Government Employe…The Hamber FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…The Connor Clark & L…Mel and Geri Davis Ch…Zlc FoundationJewish Federation of …
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC16.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Vancouver Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Hamber Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation · Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust · Zlc Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia

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 49 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 2024-06-30, 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 119302008:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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