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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.

Revenue FY2024
C$74M
Funders on record
228
Grants received
C$151M
Net assets
C$320M
146/228 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What St. Paul's Foundation of Vancouver does

Ongoing programs

The purpose of the Foundation is to fund facilitate promote and carry out activities which are consistent with the objectives of the Providence Health Care Society and the Providence Living. The Foundation aims to improve the efficiency of research equipment education and quality of life programs in relation to the patient and resident care in the facilities owned or operated by either the Providence Health Care Society or Providence Living by prudently managing assets held on their behalf.

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$29M) Expenses 100 (C$29M) Net assets 100 (C$92M)2018 Revenue 123 (C$36M) Expenses 105 (C$30M) Net assets 117 (C$108M)2019 Revenue 139 (C$40M) Expenses 106 (C$31M) Net assets 128 (C$118M)2020 Revenue 252 (C$73M) Expenses 131 (C$38M) Net assets 153 (C$141M)2021 Revenue 228 (C$66M) Expenses 119 (C$34M) Net assets 206 (C$190M)2022 Revenue 243 (C$70M) Expenses 134 (C$39M) Net assets 241 (C$222M)2023 Revenue 372 (C$108M) Expenses 147 (C$42M) Net assets 312 (C$287M)2024 Revenue 256 (C$74M) Expenses 174 (C$50M) Net assets 347 (C$320M)
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Revenue (256)Expenses (174)Net assets (347)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from C$223M to C$289M (+29%).

C$95M
C$109M
C$119M
C$143M
C$192M
C$223M
C$289M
C$321M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 318 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$124k
’17
C$5.4M
’18
C$9.8M
’19
C$35M
’20
C$32M
’21
C$32M
’22
C$66M
’23
C$24M
’24
9.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed1721212230212724
Joined·+8+3+6+9+2+6+2
No longer listed·43511105
03Who funds it

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.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$17M
Diamond Foundationunclassified
C$14M
Jemini Foundationunclassified
C$7.1M
Audain Foundationunclassified
C$4.0M
C$3.2M
C$3.0M
C$2.1M
C$1.8M
C$1.6M
C$1.3M
C$1.1M
C$850k
C$750k
C$740k
Zlc Foundationunclassified
C$715k
C$570k
C$500k
funders
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86
89
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90
93
99
107

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.

33%
largest funder
53%
top three
~7
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

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British Columbia out of province

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER is better cushioned than half of the 362 foundations nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · below the median
Months of reserve9.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 362 foundations nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government revenue ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$4.3M
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  • 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 13%Fundraising 10%

Governance

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board members

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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register