Armstrong, BC · Charitable organization
Armstrong Spallumcheen Healthcare Auxiliary
Operate bargin bin thrift shop - sale of donated clothing books and household items
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k6 grants · C$24k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$53k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERIOR HEALTH AUTHORITY (P.V. MANOR LIONS VISION... | C$113,284 |
| VERNON JUBILEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$33,216 |
| SHUSWAP LAKE GENERAL HOSPITAL (SHUSWAP HOSPITAL FOUNDATION) | C$20,000 |
| OKANAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (ARMSTRONG FOOD BANK) | C$6,319 |
| KALAMALKA STARFISH SOCIETY (SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAM) | C$5,000 |
| FEED ENDERBY & DISTRICT FOOD BANK SOCIETY | C$5,000 |
| GLAD TIDINGS BROWN BAG LUNCG PROGRAM | C$3,000 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT #83 (SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAM) | C$2,500 |
| ARMSTRONG/SPALLUMCHEEN MEDICAL EQUIPMENT LOAN SOCIETY | C$2,500 |
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 +81% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$121k 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
- VJVERNON JUBILEE HOSPITAL8× · 2017–2024 · C$704k · revenue +38%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB (ARMSTRONG FOOD BANK)8× · 2017–2024 · C$109k · revenue +81%
- SLSHUSWAP LAKE GENERAL HOSPITAL3× · 2022–2024 · C$68k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- ALArmstrong Lions Clubone grant, 2017 · C$50k
- SDSCHOOL DISTRICT 83 - MEAL PROGRAMSone grant, 2021 · C$13k
- COCITY OF ENDERBY-FIRE AND RESCUE DEPTone grant, 2019 · C$10k
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.
Raising funds for hospitals and health service facilities in the south okanagan – similkameen medical equipment and patient care needs
Providing food to local families in need.
Providing dental care for low income families individuals + seniors
Kootenay lake hospital foundation raises funds to purchase priority medical equipment for the kootenay lake hospital
The squamish food bank is a non-profit charitable society. they provide food to those experiencing hunger in squamish. hundreds of residents rely on their services every month including individuals families single parents seniors and…
Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…
Our purpose is to provide essential nourishment over 11 000 individuals in the central okanagan facing financial and food insecurity fostering dignity and hope within the community. through compassion education and advocacy we strive to…
To provide adequate community access to primary health services by offering a network of primary care clinics on the saanich peninsula
Sale of used goods produces and supplies soup mix donations of medical supplies.
Support/counselling services to those who are ill or grieving in the community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Society (British Columbia & Yukon) and the most unlike its peers is Haugen Community Healthcare Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 VERNON JUBILEE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (ARMSTRONG FOOD BANK) ↗
- Who funds SHUSWAP LAKE GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FEED ENDERBY & DISTRICT FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GLAD TIDINGS PENTECOSTAL ↗
- Who funds NORTH OKANAGAN HOSPICE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARMSTRONG/SPALLUMCHEEN MEDICAL EQUIPMENT LOAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ACESS CENTRE (NO) SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KALAMALKA STARFISH SOCIETY (SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAM) ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL DISTRICT #83 (SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAM) ↗
- Who funds Haugen Community Healthcare Society ↗
- Who funds St John Ambulance ↗
- Who funds Zion United Church ↗
- Who funds Alzheimer BC ↗
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: Community Foundation of the North Okanagan · First West Foundation · Nexus Bc Community Resource Centre Society · Foord Family Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Interior Provincial Exhibition Association Armstrong B.C. · Commonage Legacy Foundation · United Way of North Okanagan Columbia Shuswap · Vernon Alliance Church · Seventh Day Adventist Church (British Columbia Conference) · United Way British Columbia · Private Giving 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.