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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Victor & Anna Kern Foundation

To provide gifts and donations to qualifed donors in the areas of health poverty children's needs and other causes

C$624k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k30 grants · C$605k
C$15,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$40,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION BCC$40,000
ST PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$35,000
CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICEC$35,000
BURNABY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$35,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOODBANK SOCIETYC$35,000
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF BCC$30,000
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$25,000
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$25,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
CRISIS CENTREC$25,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$25,000
HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATIONC$15,000
ALZHEIMERS SOCIETY OF BCC$15,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.7M · 39 repeat orgsC$92k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -100% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
7

Total granted

C$2.7M
C$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-100%

Still filing today

97%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$53k 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

  • CP
    CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$199k · revenue +76%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION BC
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$170k · revenue +77%
  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$164k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • BB
    BACKPACK BUDDIES
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k
  • HS
    HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k
  • S
    Sheway
    one grant, 2017 · C$6k

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
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…

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2
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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3
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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4
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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5
Canadian Cancer Prevention Centre Foundation

Raising funds for ccs prevention centre in vancouver b.c.

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6
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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7
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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8
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Society Branch

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation services. The Centre investigates and evaluates the occurrence…

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9
British Columbia Mountain Foundation

The British Columbia Mountain Foundation is a charity focused on establishing and preserving public huts shelters trails and other outdoor and wilderness related facilities across British Columbia and Canada with the goal of preserving and…

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10
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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11
Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society

This is Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society's (VAMMR) first year of operations as a registered charity and is a global leader in marine mammal rescue research and rehabilitation. VAMMR responds to over 300 marine mammal…

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12
British Columbia Search and Rescue Association

The british columbia search and rescue association enhances the provision of ground search and rescue (gsar) services in the province of bc by providing gsar volunteers with a common link to information and resources facilitating access to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rare Trait Hope 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

41 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. 41 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
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 budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$199,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION BC — C$170,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$164,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOODBANK SOCIETY — C$150,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$125,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBURNABY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$120,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetORDER OF SAINT JOHN PALLIATIVE CARE — C$120,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetCRISIS CENTRE — C$117,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$107,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBC PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS BURN FUND — C$95,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$89,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA BLIND SPORTS AND RECREATION ASSOC — C$88,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$86,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF BC — C$85,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCANADIAN LIVER FOUNDATION — C$78,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetB.C CENTRE FOR ABILITY — C$78,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANDREW MAHON FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBC GUIDE DOGS — C$60,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS SOCIETY OF BC — C$52,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DUGOUT — C$40,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetHEADSUP GUYS UBC — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRARE TRAIT HOPE SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetKID SAFE — C$33,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN PROMISE VANCOUVER — C$32,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES — C$32,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWHISTLER SEARCH AND RESCUE — C$25,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE RESCUE TEAM SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH SHORE MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH COAST BC — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZAJAC RANCH — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA — C$4,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetZAJAC RANCH — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$1,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Island Compassion — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION BC ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER VANCOUVER FOODBANK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds BURNABY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORDER OF SAINT JOHN PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds BC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BC PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS BURN FUND ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH COLUMBIA BLIND SPORTS AND RECREATION ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF BC ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN LIVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds B.C CENTRE FOR ABILITY ↗
  • Who funds VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANDREW MAHON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BC GUIDE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMERS SOCIETY OF BC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE DUGOUT ↗
  • Who funds HEADSUP GUYS UBC ↗
  • Who funds RARE TRAIT HOPE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds KID SAFE ↗
  • Who funds URBAN PROMISE VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES ↗
  • Who funds WHISTLER SEARCH AND RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE RESCUE TEAM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH COAST BC ↗
  • Who funds ZAJAC RANCH ↗

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…United Way British Co…Vancity Community Fou…Vancouver FoundationThe Andrew Mahon Foun…Bc Government Employe…West Vancouver Commun…The Connor Clark & L…Ocean Wise Conservati…Raymond James Canada …Aqueduct FoundationTelus Employees Chari…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC13× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Andrew Mahon Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · West Vancouver Community Foundation · The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation · Ocean Wise Conservation Association · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust

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 49 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 119261469:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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