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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

R & J Stern Family Foundation

We exclusively make grants to qualified donees such as organizations that support arts and music programs education programs health and science programs and religious/community services programs.

C$603k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$211k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k26 grants · C$69k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$143k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$391k
C$5,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION GREATER VANCOUVERC$211,000
UNITED WAY OF LOWER MAINLANDC$110,000
VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$70,000
VGH AND UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONSC$40,000
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCEC$25,000
THE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$18,000
YWCA METRO VANCOUVERC$10,000
SAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMYC$10,000
CANADA WEST FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CITY OPERA OF VANCOUVER SOCIETYC$10,000
ARTS UMBRELLAC$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$10,000
BALLET BCC$7,500
TEMPLE SHOLOMC$6,350
VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETYC$5,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.2M · 45 repeat orgsC$765k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
31

Total granted

C$5.2M
C$641k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+21%

Still filing today

98%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$124k 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

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION GREATER VANCOUVER
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue +191%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$770k · revenue +27%
  • UO
    UNIVERISTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (LAW BUILDING & GLOBAL REPORT
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$715k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER
    one grant, 2019 · C$155k
  • UO
    University of Manitoba
    one grant, 2017 · C$125k
  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +5%

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
Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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3
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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4
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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5
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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6
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

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

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7
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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8
Langara College Foundation

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

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9
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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10
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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11
The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society

Vancouver international jazz festival year-round jazz concerts and related educational programs.

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12
Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Society

Conducts a competition to award scholarship to bc youth studying music. provide educational workshops master classes and seminars to young musicians in british columbia.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society and the most unlike its peers is Friends for Zambia 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

69 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. 69 of the 80 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
54/69
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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION GREATER VANCOUVER — C$1,704,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND — C$770,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERISTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (LAW BUILDING & GLOBAL REPORT — C$715,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$305,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$244,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTEMPLE SHOLOM — C$104,039 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFRASER BASIN COUNCIL SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSFU (WADDELL CHILDREN'S HEALTH POLICY CENTRE — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSaint James Music Academy — C$80,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$72,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRED CROSS CANADA — C$52,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA METRO VANCOUVER — C$45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER ACADEMY OF MUSIC — C$42,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCITY OPERA OF VANCOUVER SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH — C$35,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET BC — C$32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — C$31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$30,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPuSh Int'l Performing Arts Festival — C$29,300 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — C$24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER ART GALLERY — C$23,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIION — C$23,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY-KIBALE HEALTH AND CONSERVATION — C$20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVDC DANCE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$19,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL BC SOCIETY — C$15,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN ASSOCIATES OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY — C$15,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL MERCY CANADA — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMUSIC ON MAIN STREET — C$12,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetONE CHILD'S VILLAGE (KARUNA GIRL'S COLLEGE) — C$11,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$10,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA WEST FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTNC Canada — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends for Zambia Society — C$8,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWEST COAST LEAF — C$6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCIFAR — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST POINT GREY ACADEMY — C$5,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 JEWISH FEDERATION GREATER VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER MAINLAND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERISTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (LAW BUILDING & GLOBAL REPORT ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA ↗
  • Who funds CGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEMPLE SHOLOM ↗
  • Who funds FRASER BASIN COUNCIL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SFU (WADDELL CHILDREN'S HEALTH POLICY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Saint James Music Academy ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds RED CROSS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds WINDMILL MICROLENDING ↗
  • Who funds YWCA METRO VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER ACADEMY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds BC WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY OPERA OF VANCOUVER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BARD ON THE BEACH ↗
  • Who funds BALLET BC ↗
  • Who funds WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds PuSh Int'l Performing Arts Festival ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds COAST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIION ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ARTS UMBRELLA ↗
  • Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY-KIBALE HEALTH AND CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds VDC DANCE CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL BC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN ASSOCIATES OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL MERCY CANADA ↗

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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Diamond FoundationZlc FoundationJewish Federation of …The Christopher Found…The Hamber FoundationThe Langara FoundationVancity Community Fou…Deux Mille FoundationLutsky Family Foundat…Martha Lou Henley Cha…Y.P.Heung Foundation
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC20× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Zlc Foundation · Jewish Federation of British Columbia · The Christopher Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · The Langara Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · Lutsky Family Foundation · Martha Lou Henley Charitable 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 80 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 829685312:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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