Vancouver, BC · Private foundation
Timothy C. Kerr Family Foundation
The charitable foundation makes grants to qualified donees.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$29k
- C$10k–50k9 grants · C$134k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY IN FOCUS | C$50,000 |
| THE CINDERELLA PROJECT SOCIETY | C$25,000 |
| SUNSHINE COAST CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | C$20,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER | C$20,000 |
| VGH AND UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$16,250 |
| ST. PAUL'S FOUNDATION OF VANCOUVER | C$12,500 |
| VANCOUVER FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL | C$10,000 |
| THE ISAAC FOUNDATION | C$10,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | C$10,000 |
| GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK | C$10,000 |
| SEWA CANADA INTERNATIONAL AID INC. | C$8,500 |
| REMEDY INSTITUTE | C$6,000 |
| MACKIES'S PLACE YOUTH SOCIAL HOUSE SOCIETY | C$5,000 |
| KIDS HELP PHONE | C$5,000 |
| TURNING POINT RECOVERY SOCIETY | C$4,550 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 22% of grant dollars (C$534k). The 78% that went abroad (C$1.9M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 78% of all-years giving (C$1.9M)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$60k went to new ones.
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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA4× · 2017–2021 · C$105k · revenue +55%
- VAVGH AND UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · C$63k · revenue +12%
- ECEmily Carr University of Art & Design2× · 2017–2018 · C$40k · revenue ×1,073
Funded once
- GCGOLF CANADA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · C$75k
- BIBOWEN ISLAN HEALTH CARE CENTRYone grant, 2021 · C$50k
- CHCONVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERone grant, 2023 · C$32k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is City in Focus Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 68 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds VGH AND UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 13th Man Foundation ↗
- Who funds Emily Carr University of Art & Design ↗
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- Who funds City in Focus ↗
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- Who funds Sara McLachlan School of Music Society ↗
- Who funds Christ Church Cathedral ↗
- Who funds S.F.U.-the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition ↗
- Who funds Vancouver Art Gallery Association ↗
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.
Open a dossier: John C. Kerr Family Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Zlc Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.