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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Christopher Foundation

The primary purpose of the charity is to receive and invest funds for charitable purposes and to make donations to other qualified donees.

C$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$43k
  • C$10k–50k23 grants · C$390k
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$750k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.7M
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$109M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRENTWOOD COLLEGE ASSOCIATIONC$1,000,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$475,000
MILNER GARDENS AND WOODLAND SOCIETYC$250,000
COMOX VALLEY LAND TRUSTC$200,000
ARTS UMBRELLA ENDOWMENT FUNDC$100,000
POLYGON GALLERYC$100,000
COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF THE ALBERNI VALLEYC$50,000
ARTISTS FOR KIDS TRUSTC$50,000
ARTS UMBRELLAC$50,000
VSO SCHOOL OF MUSICC$50,000
AUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATIONC$50,000
BARD ON THE BEACH THEATRE SOCIETYC$50,000
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATIONC$50,000
CANADIAN NETWORK OF MS CLINICS ASSCC$40,000
THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS OF CANADA FOUNDATIONC$25,000
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$8.2M · 50 repeat orgsC$729k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
9

Total granted

C$8.2M
C$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+27%

Still filing today

90%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$305k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24
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

  • BC
    BRENTWOOD COLLEGE ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +43%
  • AU
    ARTS UMBRELLA
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +114%
  • VU
    VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$968k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • V1
    VSO 100TH ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN GIFT (CONCERT PIANO)
    one grant, 2019 · C$250k
  • AA
    AUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k
  • BM
    BC MUSEUMS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$36k · revenue +27%

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 Opera Association

Mainstage opera productions and community music programming Student dress rehearsals opera experience programs for students Educational programming including summer camp spring camp project opera for elementary and high school students.…

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2
The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society

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

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3
Vancouver New Music Society

Over the 2023-24 season vancouver new music presented many free community based events. these included community workshops public installations and online presentations. in addition the 2023-24 series included many paid concerts

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4
Vancouver Academy of Music Foundation
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5
Vancouver Philharmonic Society

The Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra is a full symphonic orchestra whose members are amateur musicians and students. The members perform in and manage the orchestra as volunteers. Five concerts of orchestral mostly classical music are…

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6
Victoria Summer Music Festival Society

The Victoria Summer Music Festival (VSMF) brings local Canadian and international musicians to Victoria to perform high-calibre chamber music. In 2024 the VSMF presented five evening concerts and one afternoon concert during July and…

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7
Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society

Working towards building a new concert hall and theatre in vancouver.

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8
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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9
Greater Vancouver Society to Bridge Arts and Community

BC Culture Days BC Alliance Resource Centre

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10
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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11
Pro Musica Society of Vancouver

Vancouver Pro Musica Society's principal activities include presentation and promotion of new works by British Columbia composers. Since its inception in 1986 the organization has proudly presented hundreds of premieres by talented…

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12
Vancouver Creative Space Society
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vancouver Art Gallery Association and the most unlike its peers is Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network. 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

54 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. 54 of the 65 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
43/54
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 budgetBRENTWOOD COLLEGE ASSOCIATION — C$2,061,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetARTS UMBRELLA — C$1,075,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$967,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMILNER GARDENS & WOODLANDS SOCIETY — C$790,000 over 6y, 52% of budgetPOLYGON GALLERY — C$465,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$400,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetVancouver Art Gallery Association — C$300,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY LAND TRUST — C$200,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$170,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetEMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART + DESIGN — C$150,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetVSO SCHOOL OF MUSIC — C$150,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLOOM GROUP COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$125,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBARD ON THE BEACH THEATRE SOCIETY — C$115,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetARTISTS FOR KIDS TRUST — C$100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE — C$90,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE SOCIETY — C$90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUBC - MORRIS & HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY — C$75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gordon And Marion Smith Foundation — C$70,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetVANCOUVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$62,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF THE ALBERNI VALLEY — C$50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetKNOWLEDGE NETWORK — C$45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetVANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetVancouver Public Library Foundation — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPACIFIC PARKINSONS RESEARCH INSITUTE — C$37,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetVICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$37,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBC MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION — C$35,550 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA — C$33,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVANDUSEN BOTANICAL GARDENS ASSOCIATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUVIC DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ARTS — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET BC — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetChrist Church Cathedral — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT JAMES MUSIC ACADEMY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MYASTHENIA GRAVIS ASSOCIATION OF BC — C$15,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetVANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL — C$15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DISABILITY FOUNDATION — C$13,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBC CENTRE FOR ABILITY FOUNDATION — C$13,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPLANNED LIFETIME ADVOCACY NETWORK — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR — C$10,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER BACH CHOIR — C$10,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY — C$10,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY — C$10,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNANAIMO & DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHOR LEONI — C$10,500 over 6y, 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 BRENTWOOD COLLEGE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTS UMBRELLA ↗
  • Who funds VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILNER GARDENS & WOODLANDS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds POLYGON GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Art Gallery Association ↗
  • Who funds COMOX VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds AUDAIN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART + DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds VSO SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BLOOM GROUP COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BARD ON THE BEACH THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR KIDS TRUST ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UBC - MORRIS & HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds The Gordon And Marion Smith Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL OF THE ALBERNI VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds KNOWLEDGE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Public Library Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC PARKINSONS RESEARCH INSITUTE ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BC MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC OPERA VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds VANDUSEN BOTANICAL GARDENS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds UVIC DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BALLET BC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS OF CANADA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Christ Church Cathedral ↗

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 Hamber FoundationDeux Mille FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…Diamond FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Alan and Gwendoline P…Ocean Wise Conservati…Y.P.Heung FoundationJohn C. Kerr Family F…R & J Stern Family Fo…Martha Lou Henley Cha…Michael and Inna O'Br…
The Hamber FoundationBC21.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamber Foundation · Deux Mille Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Y.P.Heung Foundation · John C. Kerr Family Foundation · R & J Stern Family Foundation · Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation · Michael and Inna O'Brian 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 65 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 891572547:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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