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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

John C. Kerr Family Foundation

C$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$34k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$100k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$230k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC SPORTS HALL OF FAME & MUSEUMC$29,531
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
VANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATIONC$25,000
SICKKIDS FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CAPELLA REGALISC$10,000
VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETYC$8,000
UBCC$5,000
SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMYC$5,000
ROYAL INLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
WES T COAST RAILWAY ASSOCIATIONC$4,371
COVENANT HOUSEC$2,500
TAKE A HIKE FOUNDATIONC$1,000
CITY IN FOCUS FOUNDATIONC$1,000
CANADIAN MEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$1,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONC$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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.5M · 28 repeat orgsC$812k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
19

Total granted

C$2.5M
C$799k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+65%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$13k 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

  • EC
    Emily Carr University of Art & Design
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$857k · revenue ×1,073 · 79% of their budget
  • SG
    ST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$800k · revenue +6%
  • VC
    VANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$108k · revenue +359%

Funded once

  • GC
    GOLF CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$666k
  • BI
    BOWEN ISLAND HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue +26%
  • VA
    Vancouver Art Gallerygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$40k · revenue +204%

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
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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2
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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3
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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4
Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation

To provide funding to the vancouver art gallery association to assist with the cost of maintaining a public art gallery and financial support of traveling exhibitions education and public programs and in acquiring works of art.

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5
Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation

The Royal BC Museum Foundation supports the Royal BC Museum with project funding as approved by the Board of Directors as well as other monetary and non-monetary contributions.

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6
Langara College Foundation

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

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7
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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8
Vancouver Opera Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to receive hold and invest bequests donations gifts funds and property and to administer and distribute funds property endowments trusts and financial programs for the funding and support of the programs…

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9
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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10
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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11
Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation
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12
Vancouver Parks and Recreation Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bowen Island Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Glitch Theatre Society. 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

50 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. 50 of the 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
40/50
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 budgetEmily Carr University of Art & Design — C$857,142 over 6y, 79% of budgetST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL — C$800,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION — C$107,600 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$102,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST PAUL'S FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBC SPORTS HALL OF FAME — C$88,593 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBILL REID GALLERY — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetVancouver Art Gallery — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$33,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSarah McLachlan School of Music — C$26,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCAPELLA REGALIS — C$21,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetChrist Church Cathedral — C$20,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRILWAY MUSEUM OF BC — C$16,371 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBrentwood College Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITY IN FOCUS FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBOWEN ISLAND MUNICIPALITY — C$6,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCrofton House School — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL INLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUBC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS CLUB THEATRE COMPANY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER YOUTH CHOIR — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGREEN THUMB THEATRE — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET BC — C$2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZajac Foundation — C$2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC ON MAIN — C$1,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC ALZHEIMER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE A HIKE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREALWHEELS SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAUSE WE CARE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer Society of BC — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmith Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Parklands Foundation — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Adapted Music Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRADIX THEATRE SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAvalon Recovery Society — C$400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD GOLF SOCIETY — C$350 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Zlc FoundationThe Christopher Found…Nicola Wealth Private…Peter & Joanne Brown …United Way British Co…Deux Mille FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…Vancouver FoundationApril 1 FoundationDiamond FoundationThe Hamber FoundationY.P.Heung Foundation
Zlc FoundationBC18.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · The Christopher Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Deux Mille Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · April 1 Foundation · Diamond Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Y.P.Heung 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 52 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 2024-11-30, 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 859440638:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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