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West Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

Chernoff Family Foundation

Gifting to hospitals universities colleges schools foodbanks museums and other community programs.

C$906k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$56k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k22 grants · C$400k
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$506k
C$15,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$56,000
FRONTIER INST FOR PUBLIC POLICYC$50,000
LIONSGATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SALVATION ARMYC$50,000
WEST VANCOUVER FOUNDATIONC$50,000
NATIONAL DOUKHOBOUR VILLAGEC$50,000
BC 4H CLUBC$50,000
VGH_UBC SPINALC$50,000
JOSHUA HOUSEC$50,000
SUNCREST COLLEGEC$50,000
UBCC$30,000
ZAJAC RANCH FOR CHILDRENC$30,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$30,000
GV FOODBANKC$30,000
ALL FOR HUMANITYC$30,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.1M · 34 repeat orgsC$425k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
22

Total granted

C$5.1M
C$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+30%

Still filing today

71%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$80k 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

  • QU
    Queen's University
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$431k · revenue +27%
  • VU
    VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$430k · revenue +12%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DOUKHOBOUR HERITAGE VILLAGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$420k · revenue +1% · 57% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    ALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k · revenue +30%
  • WV
    WEST VANCOUVER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +70%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Langara College Foundation

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

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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
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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8
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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9
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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10
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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11
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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12
Pacific Community Resources Society

The society operates alternative schools alcohol and drug counseling and prevention programs needle exchange program youth centres employment programs training for youth education assistance programs pathways to education program…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Cumberland College. 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

45 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. 45 of the 58 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
38/45
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 budgetQueen's University — C$431,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$430,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DOUKHOBOUR HERITAGE VILLAGE — C$419,596 over 8y, 57% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$390,000 over 8y, 91% of budgetLIONSGATE HOSPITASL FOUNDATION — C$386,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBC 4H CLUB — C$340,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetFRONTIER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — C$300,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetAAC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — C$185,100 over 7y, 69% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$150,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGV FOODBANK — C$130,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUBC BASEBALL — C$120,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOSHUA HOUSE — C$110,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNICOLA VALLEY ARCHIVES — C$90,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetCUMBERLAND REGION COLLEGE — C$90,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetKAMSAC NURSING HOME — C$90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKAMSACK POWER HOUSE MUSEUM — C$90,000 over 8y, 75% of budgetEAGLESTONE LODGE — C$90,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS — C$85,000 over 8y, 65% of budgetFRASER INST — C$80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SPIRIT SCHOOL DIVISION — C$50,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUNCREST COLLEGE — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION EMILY BRYDON — C$50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILLMORE WILDERNESS — C$40,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD SCHOOL — C$30,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetWEST VANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$25,325 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWAVAW — C$25,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAll for Humanity — C$25,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetNorthshore Community FNDN — C$22,218 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetZajac Ranch for Children — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MACDONALD HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetlightfood Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetST. VLADIMIR'S UKRAINIAN CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNelson Hospice Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBLUE SEA FONDATION (COMOX HOMELESS) — C$2,000 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.

  • Who funds Queen's University ↗
  • Who funds VGH UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DOUKHOBOUR HERITAGE VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds LIONSGATE HOSPITASL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BC 4H CLUB ↗
  • Who funds FRONTIER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
  • Who funds AAC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds GV FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds UBC BASEBALL ↗
  • Who funds JOSHUA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NICOLA VALLEY ARCHIVES ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND REGION COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds KAMSAC NURSING HOME ↗
  • Who funds KAMSACK POWER HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds EAGLESTONE LODGE ↗
  • Who funds WEST VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS ↗
  • Who funds FRASER INST ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SPIRIT SCHOOL DIVISION ↗
  • Who funds SUNCREST COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY FOUNDATION EMILY BRYDON ↗
  • Who funds WILLMORE WILDERNESS ↗
  • Who funds COLLINGWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WEST VANCOUVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WAVAW ↗
  • Who funds All for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds Northshore Community FNDN ↗

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…Vancity Community Fou…The Federation of Com…The Home Depot Canada…Youth and Philanthrop…Canadian Women's Foun…Vancouver FoundationThe Canadian Red Cros…Bc Government Employe…Raymond James Canada …Nicola Wealth Private…Conam Charitable Foun…
United Way British ColumbiaBC8.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbia · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Vancouver Foundation · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation

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 58 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 867304032:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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