Skip to content
Canadian charities

Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Killy Foundation

Fund charities that assist the underprivileged provide assistance and care for the sick and the aged and health institutions or activities that contribute to the mental moral or physical improvement of the human race.

C$10k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The University of British ColumbiaC$10,000
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$132k · 3 repeat orgsC$172k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

C$132k
C$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
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

  • VA
    Vancouver Art Gallery
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$100k · revenue +100%
  • TU
    The University of British Columbia
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$30k · revenue +55%
  • SP
    St. Paul's Hospital Foundation of Vancouver
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$2k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • NG
    National Gallery of Canada Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue -47%
  • AR
    AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue +19%
  • TP
    THE POLYGON GALLERYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue +54%

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 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.

—
2
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.

—
3
The Vancouver Art Gallery Association

The vancouver art gallery is a public art museum that showcases primarily contemporary works by bc canadian and international artists. as in prior years the gallery presents both touring exhibitions as well as exhibitions focused on the…

—
4
The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia

Scholarships bursaries awards to support education and research in architecture.

—
5
University of Victoria

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

—
6
Vancouver Parks and Recreation Foundation
—
7
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…

—
8
Yvr Art Foundation

Providing art scholarships and exhibition opportunities for bc and yukon first nations emerging and mid-career artists - providing museum travel grants to bc and yukon first nations artists - providing awards to bc and yukon first nations…

—
9
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

We are a public art gallery showcasing exhibitions from Canadian contemporary and historical artists international artists and a world-class Asian collection. We house and maintain the largest collection of visual arts in public trust in…

—
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.

—
11
Langara College Foundation

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

—
12
Vancouver Public Library Trust

The vancouver public library trust provides funds for the general charitable purposes of the vancouver public library. funds help support library services such as digitalization of historical photographs the purchase of books and other…

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Avalon Recovery 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

9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
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 budgetVancouver Art Gallery — C$100,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetNational Gallery of Canada Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHE POLYGON GALLERY — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe University of British Columbia — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Church Cathedral — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATURE TRUST BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTetra Society of North America — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSt. Paul's Hospital Foundation of Vancouver — C$2,000 over 2y, 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.

Vancouver FoundationMichael and Inna O'Br…United Way British Co…Nicola Wealth Private…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Vancouver FoundationBC8.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancouver Foundation · Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon

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 9 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 2019-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2019. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2020) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 890834542:2019-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

Play a game based on Killy’s filings →