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Smithers, BC · Public foundation

Bulkley Valley Community Foundation

The purpose of the BULKLEY VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to create opportunities for donors to support local initiatives organizations and individuals to improve the quality of life throughout our communities.

C$678k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$47k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$136k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$195k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$300k
C$8,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSTON COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATIONC$300,000
DRIFTWOOD FOUNDATION SOCIETYC$125,000
WRINCH MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONC$69,780
NORTHERN SOCIETY FOR DOMESTIC PEACEC$37,500
HOUSTON LINK TO LEARNINGC$36,707
OFFICE OF THE WET'SUWET'ENC$33,000
SMITHERS COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATIONC$28,800
REGIONAL DISTRICT OF BULKLEY NECHAKO-BV POOLC$8,372
NORDIC COMBINED SKI CANADAC$8,000
BULKLEY VALLEY COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCILC$6,000
DZE L'KANT FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETYC$5,000
GROUND BREAKERS AGRICULTURE ASSOCIATIONC$4,500
A ROCHA CANADAC$4,000
SCOUTS CANADAC$3,830
TYEE MOUNTAIN TRAIL SOCIETYC$3,000
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 26 repeat orgsC$524k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
33

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$224k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+12%

Still filing today

81%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$300k 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

  • DF
    DRIFTWOOD FOUNDATION SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$250k · revenue ×182 · 100% of their budget
  • TG
    THE GRENDEL GROUP
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$201k · revenue +241% · 77% of their budget
  • AR
    A ROCHA CANADA
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$116k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PRINCE GEORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +48%
  • TL
    THE LOON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$45k · revenue -40%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY BULKEY VALLEY SOCIAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · C$30k · revenue -18%

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
Squamish Trails Society

Enhance the quality of life in our community by planning constructing and maintaining a public pedestrian and cycling system of trails using off-road routes whenever possible which link all areas in the District of Squamish. Promote public…

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2
Kootenay Columbia Trails Society

Establish and maintain a recreational trail network in and around the municipalities of Rossland Trail Warfield Montrose and Fruitvale in British Columbia for self-propelled activities including walking hiking trail running biking and…

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3
Tlc the Land Conservancy of British Columbia

Tlc works in partnership with community organizations and local regional provincial and federal government to provide conservation programs throughout british columbia. tlc provides property owners with information and assistance to help…

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4
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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5
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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6
Tlell Watershed Society

Operating of a salmon counting fence for coho and pink salmon in the tlell river watershed. maintenance on interpretative hiking trails in the tlell river watershed. hosting community stewardship activities related to health of the tlell…

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7
Friends of the South Slopes

The organization does volunteer trail maintenance within two BC Provincial Parks via a Partnership Agreement. The organization also manages long-term land stewardship within the south slopes of Kelowna with a goal of ensuring access to…

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8
Squamish River Watershed Society

Watershed restoration including restoring fish habitat in the upper rivervine systems and the Squamish estuary. Running educational and outreach programming for students and community. Hosting and holding events (Earth Day Rivers Day).…

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9
Society for Atmosphere Solutions

Wood Stove Exchange Program: improving local air quality by encouraging the adoption of low to zero emission home heating systems and practices by providing information incentives and workshops. Air Quality Monitor Network: installing and…

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10
Cowichan Trail Stewardship Society

Trail construction – as the number of trail users expands the society creates proposals for new trails and submits then to the landowner. trail maintenance – society staff and members are on the trails daily and report maintenance issues…

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11
The Valhalla Wilderness Society

Coastal Temperate Rainforest-VWS was instrumental in the past in research and campaigns that saw large areas of the BC coast protected as conservancies. VWS continues to monitor park management and eco-system based logging as well as…

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12
Spearhead Huts Society

The spearhead huts society's purpose is: - to provide public amenities and enhance public safety by establishing maintaining and operating huts shelters trails and other facilities in the mountains of british columbia; and - do all such…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dze L K'ant Friendship Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is Houston Public Library. 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

46 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. 46 of the 60 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
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$100kC$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$300,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDRIFTWOOD FOUNDATION SOCIETY — C$250,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetTHE GRENDEL GROUP — C$201,312 over 2y, 77% of budgetA ROCHA CANADA — C$115,600 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetWRINCH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — C$73,780 over 6y, 11% of budgetHOUSTON LINK TO LEARNING — C$53,034 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTHE PRINCE GEORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$50,357 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LOON FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSMITHERS COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$44,508 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN SOCIETY FOR DOMESTIC PEACE — C$42,510 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY BULKEY VALLEY SOCIAL SERVICES — C$30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetKAMLOOPS FOOD POLICY COUNCIL — C$17,477 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCYCLE 16 TRAIL SOCIETY — C$14,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBULKLEY VALLEY COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL — C$12,400 over 3y, 13% of budgetDZE L'KANT FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY — C$11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSCOUTS CANADA — C$9,169 over 5y, 96% of budgetGROUND BREAKERS AGRICULTURE ASSOCIATION — C$7,700 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetCANADIAN SKI PATROL-PATROUILLE CANADIENNE DE SKI — C$6,330 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTYEE MOUNTAIN TRAIL SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetBulkley Valley Historical & Museum Society — C$5,399 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPROTON FOUNDATION — C$4,696 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBULKLEY VALLEY SEARCH AND RESCUE — C$4,403 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBULKLEY VALLEY CENTRE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH AND MA — C$4,402 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGiel Guides of Canada-Smithers Division — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON RETIREMENT HOUSING SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPOSITIVE LIVING NORTH — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFEDERATION OF MOUNTAIN CLUBS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$3,402 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHouston Public Library Association — C$3,291 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY OF HOUSTON — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SMITHERS LIBRARY — C$3,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Upper Skeena Development Centre Society — C$2,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBVLD AIRSHED MANAGEMENT SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 33% of budgetHAZELTON DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNavy League of Canada-Smithers Division — C$2,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTelkwa Museum Society — C$1,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetBulkley Valley Child Development Centre — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBC Healthcare & Hospital Foundation — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christian Reformed Church of Telkwa — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANGLICAN CHURCH OF ST. JAMES — C$967 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBC School Sports - BC Highschool Curling — C$750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGITKSAN WET'SUWET'EN EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCHE VIEW LODGE SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN VALLEY ASSEMBLY — C$483 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

United Way of Norther…The Western Communiti…Lakeview FoundationBc Government Employe…Decoda Literacy Found…Community Foundations…Bulkley Valley Health…Trails Charitable Fou…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationVancity Community Fou…Second Harvest Canada…
United Way of Northern British ColumbiaBC16.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Northern British Columbia · The Western Communities Foundation · Lakeview Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Decoda Literacy Foundation · Community Foundations of Canada · Bulkley Valley Health Care and Hospital Foundation · Trails Charitable Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canada

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 60 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 public foundation under foundations advancing education.

Source object 132091125:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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