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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Koerner Foundation

KOERNER FOUNDATION is mandated to distribute to qualified donees for the advancement of education arts culture health activities and programs of a charitable nature beneficial to the community as a whole

C$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$70k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$350k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$2.6M
C$60,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECOTRUST CANADAC$750,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$745,000
DR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATIONC$600,000
VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONSC$250,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATIONC$250,000
FOUNDATIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGEC$75,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CANADAC$60,000
VICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETYC$60,000
PACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA FOUNDATIONC$55,000
THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETYC$50,000
OCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONC$50,000
HOPE IN SHADOWS SOCIETYC$40,000
THE CRIDGE CENTRE FOR THE FAMILYC$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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$34M · 25 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
24

Total granted

C$34M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • TM
    THE MICHAEL AND SONJA KOERNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · C$23M · revenue +179% · 74% of their budget
  • ET
    ECO TRUST CANADA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +223%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$1.9M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • SF
    Sunnybrook Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$500k
  • RC
    Royal Conservatory of Music
    one grant, 2017 · C$110k · revenue +17%
  • TP
    The Power Plant
    one grant, 2017 · C$65k · revenue +16%

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
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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2
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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3
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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4
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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5
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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6
Indian Summer Arts Society

Indian Summer Arts Society commissions and presents significant local national and international programming that catalyzes and inspires dialogue and global citizenship and reflects Vancouver's position as a harbour for diverse arts ideas…

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7
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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8
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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9
Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art/Centre De L'art Contemporain Canadien
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10
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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11
Ocad University Foundation
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12
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Gallery of Canada Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Foundations for Social Change. 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 50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
41/45
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MICHAEL AND SONJA KOERNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$23,369,155 over 2y, 74% of budgetECO TRUST CANADA — C$2,160,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$1,865,012 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMH — C$937,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$900,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetArt Gallery of Greater Victoria — C$750,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$680,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONS — C$550,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetOPERA VICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$463,314 over 7y, 27% of budgetGARTH HOMER SOCIETY — C$440,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFOUNDATIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE — C$215,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetOcean Wise Conservation Association — C$200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCIFAR — C$200,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$180,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEvergreen Toronto Brickworks — C$145,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNature Conservancy of Canada — C$140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArt Canada Institute — C$125,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetRoyal Conservatory of Music — C$110,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CRIDGE CENTRE FOR THE FAMILY — C$105,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE IN SHADOWS SOCIETY — C$95,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetVICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$95,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSalt Spring Institute for Sustainability Education & Action — C$85,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND — C$70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN SOCIETY FOR DOMESTIC PEACE — C$70,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Power Plant — C$65,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetArt Gallery Of Ontario — C$65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for Canada (Grassy Narrows First Nation) — C$60,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSoundstreams Canada — C$50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPartners in Art — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCarlton University — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CANADA — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART GALLERY — C$40,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPORTLAND HOTEL SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYCLE 16 TRAIL SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCanada's National Ballet — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSON'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$22,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetQueen's University — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Music Concerts — C$20,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hnalyshyn Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYork University — C$6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shaw Festival Theater — C$5,000 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.

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.

The Michael and Sonja…The McLean FoundationWeston Family Foundat…Toronto FoundationRaymond James Canada …Aqueduct FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…R. Howard Webster Fou…Conam Charitable Foun…Makeway FoundationJackman FoundationThe Ouellette Family …
The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable FoundationON15.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Toronto Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Conam Charitable Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Jackman Foundation · The Ouellette Family 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 50 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 advancing education.

Source object 118979939:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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