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Commonage Legacy Foundation

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C$500k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$40k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$460k
C$60,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OKANADAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$200,000
SPIRIT OF THE NORTH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONC$150,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$60,000
COMMUNITY DENTAL ACCESS CENTRE9NORTH OKANAGAN) SOCIETYC$50,000
PACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETYC$40,000
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.8M · 15 repeat orgsC$770k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
24

Total granted

C$2.8M
C$730k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+67%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$40k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • KG
    KELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · C$466k · revenue +37%
  • SO
    SPIRIT OF THE NORTH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$420k · revenue +96%
  • NH
    NORTHERN HEALTH AUTHORITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$307k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY (VARIOUS FOOD BANKS)graduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k · revenue ×89
  • VG
    VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$75k · revenue +43%
  • NO
    NORTH OKANAGAN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$55k · revenue +57%

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
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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2
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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3
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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4
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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5
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

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…

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6
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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7
Interior Health Authority

Provision of health care services to residents of the interior region of British Columbia.

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8
Coha Foundation

To provide support and funding to the central okanagan hospice association

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9
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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10
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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11
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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12
Bc Women's Health Foundation

Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Mental Health Association Kelowna and District Branch and the most unlike its peers is Loon Lake Volunteer Fire Department Society. 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

40 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOKANADAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$542,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetKELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$466,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSPIRIT OF THE NORTH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$420,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetNORTHERN HEALTH AUTHORITY — C$307,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARCHWAY SOCIETY FOR DOMESTIC PEACE — C$175,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetVERNON JUBILEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$120,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCMHA VERNON BRANCH — C$110,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOKANAGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL ACCESS CENTRE9NORTH OKANAGAN) SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetQUESNEL AND DISTRICT HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE ASSOCIATION — C$96,666 over 2y, 58% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$93,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUXILIARY TO G R BAKER HOSPITAL — C$85,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetVANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNONA CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE — C$70,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCMHA KELOWNA BRANCH — C$70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — C$55,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH OKANAGAN — C$55,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOPSITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$33,334 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WILLIAMS LAKE & DISTRICT — C$33,333 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED FOR BC WILDFIRE RECOVERY FUND — C$33,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARIBO CHILCOTIN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKELOWNA WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBC SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN COSTAL RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKAMLOOPS FOOD BANK — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBCSPCA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM BC — C$20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WINDERNESS SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF QUESNEL — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetQUESNEL TILLICUM SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE OUTREACH — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCACHE CREEK FIRE DEPARTMENT — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVANCOUVER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Foord Family Foundati…Community Foundation …Bc Government Employe…First West FoundationUnited Way Southern I…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationTELUS Friendly Future…Seventh Day Adventist…Central Okanagan Foun…The Steele Family Fou…Nexus Bc Community Re…
Foord Family FoundationBC16.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foord Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the North Okanagan · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · First West Foundation · United Way Southern Interior Bc · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Seventh Day Adventist Church (British Columbia Conference) · Central Okanagan Foundation · The Steele Family Foundation · Nexus Bc Community Resource Centre Society

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 40 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 754166288:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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