How We Work
The Y.P. Heung Foundation provides funding in the broad categories of Arts + Culture, Education, and Health. We focus on Metro Vancouver, but we also consider compelling projects and programs from throughout British Columbia.
We want to affect real change and to create sustainable impact through the following goals:
Supporting smaller charities that have proven records but are in need of funding for projects and programs
Making larger donations to fewer charities
Being at the top fifty percent of all donors to a given cause
Providing support on a project basis rather than on an endowment or operational basis
Granting, in some cases, multi-year support to organizations
Providing donation support on a capital basis rather than on an operational basis.**
We only support registered charities or other qualified donees as defined by the Canada Revenue Agency.
The foundation relies on members of the Board of Advisors who identify opportunities and who are also directly engaged with the grantees in the grant-making process.
**On a capital basis, proposed capital expenditures by a charity are long-term investments with an expected useful life of more than one year. Previous examples supported by the Foundation include: renovations of galleries/museums; start-up costs for new art exhibitions and new programs; new centre for disease prevention & support; new medical lab equipment; new experimental medical research program; technology modernization & upgrade; and geographical expansion of existing programs offered by a charity. On the other hand, we very rarely provide donation support for operational expenditures, such as day-to-day expenditures of a charity for office supplies, payroll, rent, or utility bills. And we do not provide grants to endowment funds nor to charities or programs with a significant political or religious mission.
our Donations since 2012
*Excluding contributions to capital campaigns