Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society

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Kelowna, BC · Public foundation

Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society

Q: How much did Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society grant in FY2024?

Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society reported 33 grants totaling C$511,579 in its FY2024 T3010 return.

Q: Where is Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society based?

Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society is based in KELOWNA, BC.

The CENTRAL OKANAGAN BURSARY AND SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY is a nonprofit group of volunteers school counsellors and parents from each school in sd #23.

C$512k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

Regions reached

C$236k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under C$10k28 grants · C$82k
C$10k–50k3 grants · C$77k
C$50k–250k2 grants · C$352k

C$2,500

Median grant

Regions reached

C$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
University of British Columbia	C$236,072
Okanagan College	C$115,850
University of Victoria	C$39,525
Univeristy of Alberta	C$21,770
University of Calgary	C$16,050
Queens University	C$8,850
University of Toronto	C$8,350
Capilano University	C$8,100
Toronto Metropolitan University	C$5,250
University of Guelph	C$5,200
Thompson Rivers University	C$4,537
Vancouver Island University	C$4,425
Simon Fraser University	C$4,300
University of Western Ontario	C$4,000
Mount Royal University	C$3,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia

C$3.2M

Ontario

C$239k

Alberta

C$198k

Quebec

C$35k

Nova Scotia

C$28k

Saskatchewan

C$19k

Manitoba

C$10k

New Brunswick

C$4k

Prince Edward Island

C$1k

Newfoundland and Labrador

C$750

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

C$3.7M · 56 repeat orgsC$57k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

C$3.7M

C$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+24%

Still filing today

95%

87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k went to new ones.

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +55%
OC
Okanagan College
8× · 2017–2024 · C$938k · revenue +41%
UO
University of Victoria
8× · 2017–2024 · C$219k · revenue +49%

Funded once

CO
CENTRAL OKANAGAN FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · C$9k · revenue +146%
CO
COLLEGE OF THE ROCKIES
one grant, 2023 · C$4k · revenue +6%
LC
LANGARA COLLEGE
one grant, 2021 · C$4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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.

University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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Vancouver Island University

Vancouver island university (viu) is an organization that values a diverse range of training and education. viu offers programs from basic literacy to vocational programs trades undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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Lakehead University

University - Post Secondary Education and Research

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The Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology

Georgian College is an educational institution that provides full-time post secondary programs including partnerships with various universities providing upgrading trades and apprenticeship programs career interest courses and provides…

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Columbia College

1) Provide university transfer courses and two year Associate Degrees in Arts and Science which are recognized (articulated) by universities in British Columbia and across Canada and certified by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education and…

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Red River College Polytechnic

Red river college polytechnic is recognized globally for excellence in applied learning research and innovation. the mission of red river college polytechnic is to elevate people industry and community in manitoba through future-focused…

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Royal Roads University

Royal roads university offers undergraduate graduate and executive programs in the applied and professional fields. the university offers degrees in arts; business and science; graduate diplomas; executive certificates; and professional…

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Wilfrid Laurier University

The primary purpose of wilfrid laurier university is to provide post-secondary education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. the university provides education programs in eight academic faculties: arts science business &…

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Nunavut Arctic College

Post-Secondary Education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Out Innerspace Dance Theatre and Film Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 89 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

80/81

Grantees still filing

75/81

Grew since you first funded

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.

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.

The Leonard FoundationON21.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Leonard Foundation · Northwestern Alberta Foundation · Enactus Canada · Cwb Welding Foundation · University of Victoria · Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia · West Vancouver Community Foundation · Cpa Education Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Educationmatters · Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg

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.

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