British Columbia · Registered charity
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER (British Columbia) receives grants from 228 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$151,111,949 to it, the largest being THE JIM PATTISON FOUNDATION (C$50,000,000). 146 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER is better cushioned than half of the 362 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 362 foundations nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Bergeron Private Foundationlocal
- Dr. Ann Worth Charitable Foundationshared funders
- Walsh Foundationshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 18% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 7% · 2023 32% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 81 funders to 99 funders, grant income rose C$6.4M → C$33M.
From the CRA filings of ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 228 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 36% · 2019 56% · 2020 59% · 2021 23% · 2022 41% · 2023 31% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
46% of ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 228 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Bergeron Private FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Dr. Ann Worth Charitable Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- Walsh Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 18 organizations that share your funders
- The River Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Seedlings Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Ames Family Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Chan Family FoundationlocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Heathcliff FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- April 1 Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Sutherland Foundation Incshared fundersBC · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 6% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER?
- ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER (British Columbia) receives grants from 228 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$151,111,949 to it, the largest being THE JIM PATTISON FOUNDATION (C$50,000,000). 146 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 228 organizations giving C$151,111,949 in grants to ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER, 146 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER?
- THE JIM PATTISON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$50,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 228 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register