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Vernon, BC · Public foundation

Community Foundation of the North Okanagan

The Community Foundation of the North Okanagan receives and manages capital contributions in perpetuity and invests this capital so as to generate income.

C$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
112
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$995k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 112 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k62 grants · C$177k
  • C$10k–50k45 grants · C$1.0M
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$342k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$995k
C$7,183
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Okanagan Village Housing SocietyC$994,581
Vernon Jubilee Hospital FoundationC$145,758
School District #22C$72,530
Allan Brooks Nature Centre SocietyC$68,808
Caetani Cultural Centre SocietyC$55,387
Vernon Community Music SchoolC$48,017
Good Food Box Society of North OkanaganC$42,210
Greater Vernon Museum & Archives SocietyC$41,220
Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre SocietyC$39,747
Regional District of North OkanaganC$36,195
Kalamalka Starfish SocietyC$35,000
Archway Society for Domestic PeaceC$34,193
Turning Points Collaborative SocietyC$33,098
North Okanagan Hospice SocietyC$32,105
Community Dental Access Centre SocietyC$32,024
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$11M · 124 repeat orgsC$959k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

124 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
78

Total granted

C$11M
C$752k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+23%

Still filing today

92%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$208k 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

  • VJ
    VERNON JUBILEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +38%
  • OV
    Okanagan Village Housing Society
    2× · 2020–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +296% · 43% of their budget
  • OC
    Okanagan College Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$707k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · C$161k
  • WC
    Whitevalley Community Resource Centre
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k
  • GB
    Grand Bend Community Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · C$35k · revenue -8%

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 Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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2
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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3
Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia

Through our programs and activities we (a) encourage British Columbians to participate in outdoor recreation (b) promote the safe and responsible use of the outdoors through education programs promoting safety and outdoor ethics (c)…

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4
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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5
Volunteer Comox Valley Society

Volunteer Comox Valley - Education awareness of volunteer opportunities

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6
Vantage Point Strategies Society

Vantage Point Strategies Society exists to advance education promote excellence and maintain high standards of practice in the non-profit and charities sector for the benefit of the public. We deliver classes workshops and courses focused…

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7
Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association

Together with the City of Vancouver Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association operates VanDusen Botanical Garden and Bloedel Conservatory. We provide education programming and research access to a Botanical Library Membership services…

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8
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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9
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Okanagan Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Jorgen Canada. 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

194 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. 194 of the 220 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
187/194
Grantees still filing
145/194
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVERNON JUBILEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,027,546 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetOkanagan Village Housing Society — C$1,004,581 over 2y, 43% of budgetOkanagan College Foundation — C$706,716 over 7y, 14% of budgetSchool District #22 — C$404,948 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAllan Brooks Nature Centre Society — C$372,369 over 8y, 20% of budgetVERNON & DISTRICT PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY — C$275,311 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetVernon Community Music School — C$218,488 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$215,027 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSALVATION ARMY VERNON COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$196,855 over 8y, 12% of budgetCaetani Cultural Centre Society — C$192,994 over 8y, 16% of budgetARCHWAY SOCIETY FOR DOMESTIC PEACE — C$173,910 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetCanadian Red Cross BC & Yukon — C$163,678 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Points Collaborative Society — C$141,999 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetArmstrong Spallumcheen Museum & Arts Society — C$136,862 over 7y, 23% of budgetKINDALE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — C$134,068 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetVernon Public Art Gallery Society — C$116,307 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetKalamalka Starfish Society — C$109,341 over 2y, 23% of budgetSCHUBERT CENTRE SOCIETY — C$102,900 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetVernon Upper Room Mission Society — C$96,920 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetOKANAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — C$92,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN INTERIOR BC — C$85,144 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetBrain Trust Canada Association — C$80,800 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association Vernon & District Branch — C$78,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOkanagan Symphony Society — C$71,050 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Dental Access Centre Society — C$68,703 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetHOPE OKANAGAN — C$68,616 over 7y, 14% of budgetPeople Place — C$66,480 over 8y, 12% of budgetO'Keefe Ranch and Interior Heritage Society — C$59,044 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING VERNON — C$57,450 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetBC SPCA Vernon & District Branch — C$55,536 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Outlook Foundation — C$55,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$51,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAVEN LANE (NOCCS) — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVernon & District Association for Community Living — C$49,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWar Amps of Canada — C$49,038 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Missionary Society of Latin America — C$48,514 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetSt. John Ambulance Society BC & Yukon — C$42,608 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEXUS BC COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$41,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetThe British Columbia Lions Society for Children with — C$40,912 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSocial Planning and Research Council of BC (SPARC BC) Societ — C$40,636 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way BC — C$40,203 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMen's Shed Vernon Society/Community Foundation North — C$40,039 over 2y, 29% of budgetCommunity Recreational Initiatives Society — C$40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSchool District #83 — C$36,819 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVernon Restholm Association — C$35,030 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetVERNON COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE — C$34,645 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetGrand Bend Community Foundation — C$34,563 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBRIDGE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY — C$34,000 over 3y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds VERNON JUBILEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Okanagan Village Housing Society ↗
  • Who funds Okanagan College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds School District #22 ↗
  • Who funds Allan Brooks Nature Centre Society ↗
  • Who funds VERNON & DISTRICT PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Vernon Community Music School ↗
  • Who funds NORTH OKANAGAN HOSPICE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION ARMY VERNON COMMUNITY CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds Caetani Cultural Centre Society ↗
  • Who funds ARCHWAY SOCIETY FOR DOMESTIC PEACE ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Red Cross BC & Yukon ↗
  • Who funds Turning Points Collaborative Society ↗
  • Who funds Armstrong Spallumcheen Museum & Arts Society ↗
  • Who funds KINDALE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Vernon Public Art Gallery Society ↗
  • Who funds Kalamalka Starfish Society ↗
  • Who funds SCHUBERT CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Vernon Upper Room Mission Society ↗
  • Who funds OKANAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN INTERIOR BC ↗
  • Who funds Brain Trust Canada Association ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon & District Branch ↗
  • Who funds Okanagan Symphony Society ↗
  • Who funds Community Dental Access Centre Society ↗
  • Who funds HOPE OKANAGAN ↗
  • Who funds People Place ↗
  • Who funds O'Keefe Ranch and Interior Heritage Society ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT LIVING VERNON ↗
  • Who funds BC SPCA Vernon & District Branch ↗
  • Who funds Fresh Outlook Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAVEN LANE (NOCCS) ↗
  • Who funds Vernon & District Association for Community Living ↗

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…Central Okanagan Foun…United Way Southern I…First West FoundationUnited Way of North O…Community Foundation …Vernon Alliance ChurchNexus Bc Community Re…Falcon FoundationRotary Club of Kelown…The Colin & Lois Prit…Commonage Legacy Foun…
Foord Family FoundationBC34.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foord Family Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · United Way Southern Interior Bc · First West Foundation · United Way of North Okanagan Columbia Shuswap · Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen · Vernon Alliance Church · Nexus Bc Community Resource Centre Society · Falcon Foundation · Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundation · The Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundation · Commonage Legacy 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.

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 220 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 2024-09-30, 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.

Source object 893197376:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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