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Courtenay, BC · Public foundation

Comox Valley Community Foundation

Qualifying disbursements are issued to qualified donees and grantee organizations primarily to organizations operating within the Comox Valley region of British Columbia.

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
81
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$195k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k50 grants · C$208k
  • C$10k–50k25 grants · C$516k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$597k
C$8,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Comox Valley Healthcare FoundationC$195,337
LUSH Valley Food Action SocietyC$116,813
Comox Valley Hospice SocietyC$91,292
North Island College FoundationC$77,184
Comox Valley Family Services AssociationC$66,655
The Board of Education of School District No. 71C$50,112
Cumberland Community Schools SocietyC$36,053
Comox Valley Project Watershed SocietyC$34,828
Wachiay Friendship Centre SocietyC$34,500
Comox Valley Senior Support SocietyC$31,807
Fanny Bay Community AssociationC$29,131
Comox Valley Head Injury SocietyC$27,000
Upper Island Women of Native Ancestry Society (UIWONA)C$25,000
Eureka Support SocietyC$25,000
Sid Williams Theatre SocietyC$22,705
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$5.1M · 96 repeat orgsC$416k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

96 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
47

Total granted

C$5.1M
C$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+31%

Still filing today

92%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$129k 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

  • CV
    Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$567k · revenue +89%
  • CV
    COMOX VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$358k · revenue +45%
  • NI
    North Island College
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$314k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • NI
    NORTH ISLAND COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · C$48k
  • LH
    LIVING HOPE CHURCHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$22k · revenue +76%
  • YA
    YOU ARE NOT ALONEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$17k · revenue +41%

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
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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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
Comox Valley Growers and Seed Savers

Public education seedy saturday event food gardenings workshops

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4
Vancouver Island Trail Association

Maintaining and improving existing trials from lake cowichan to port moody. working with private owners to permit public access to trails on their property. working with first nations to accommodate their needs within their territory.

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5
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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6
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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7
Vancouver Island Health Authority

Island health plans and delivers health care services to the residents of vancouver island in the province of british columbia. health care services include but are not limited to acute care long-term care home support addictions mental…

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8
Affordable Housing: Vancouver Island Society
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9
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

Asian pacific outreach program: pacific rim educational programs: british columbia schools & universities

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10
Friends of Cortes Island Society

We carry out ecological monitoring restoration and education programs on cortes island. this includes lake stream marine and wetland stewardship programs involving research monitoring and habitat restoration. we also manage and maintain…

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11
Clayoquot Biosphere Trust Society

The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust Society (CBT) designated under the UNESCO Biosphere Region program is a Society registered under the British Columbia Society Act. The purpose of the CBT is to support research education and programs which…

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12
Victoria Symphony Society

The Victoria Symphony Society provides orchestral music to southern Vancouver Island. It provides concerts and educates people through its outreach programs and contributes to the artistic and cultural endeavours of different communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denman Seniors and Museum Society and the most unlike its peers is Restor International Inc.. 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

128 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. 128 of the 155 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/128
Grantees still filing
94/128
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetComox Valley Healthcare Foundation — C$566,947 over 8y, 11% of budgetComox Valley Hospice Society — C$500,314 over 8y, 17% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — C$358,400 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetNorth Island College — C$313,682 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY TRANSITION SOCIETY — C$272,366 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetLUSH Valley Food Action Society — C$267,887 over 6y, 14% of budgetComox Valley Art Gallery — C$181,510 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Board of Education of School District No. 71 — C$160,788 over 5y, 64% of budgetCUMBERLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOLS SOCIETY — C$138,579 over 7y, 21% of budgetFilberg Heritage Lodge and Park Association — C$136,592 over 8y, 14% of budgetCOURTENAY RECREATION ASSOCIATION — C$122,540 over 5y, 13% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY HEAD INJURY SOCIETY — C$121,648 over 5y, 19% of budgetNorth Island College Foundation — C$107,861 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetSid Williams Theatre Society — C$106,268 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetComox Valley Family Services Association — C$99,915 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetUpper Island Women of Native Ancestry Society (UIWONA) — C$83,665 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetDAWN TO DAWN ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS — C$74,475 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetHORNBY ISLAND EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY — C$71,368 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetComox Valley Project Watershed Society — C$70,906 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY COMOX VALLEY MINISTRIES — C$70,264 over 7y, 95% of budgetEureka Support Society — C$69,105 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetSt. George United Church — C$58,251 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetComox Valley Special Olympics — C$48,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetL'Arche Comox Valley — C$46,165 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetComox Valley Senior Support Society — C$45,807 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetGlacier View Lodge Society — C$45,719 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetComox Valley Therapeutic Riding Society — C$45,299 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetWachiay Friendship Centre Society — C$43,462 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFanny Bay Community Association — C$37,952 over 3y, 21% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL — C$36,840 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetTHE JOHN HOWARD SOCITY OF NORTH ISLAND — C$35,872 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetComox Bay Care Society — C$33,943 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetDENMAN ISLAND COMMUNITY EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$31,600 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetBEAUFORT ASSOCIATION — C$29,665 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetVANCOUVER ISLAND SOCIETY OF ADAPTIVE SNOW SPORTS — C$28,180 over 4y, 18% of budgetCumberland Community Forest Society — C$26,873 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$24,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY RECOVERY CENTRE SOCIETY — C$23,801 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDenman Seniors & Museum Society — C$23,684 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetLIVING HOPE CHURCH — C$22,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$21,808 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Community Justice Centre of the Comox Valley Society — C$21,355 over 1y, 10% of budgetLake Trail Community Education Society — C$21,316 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetCONSERVANCY HORNBY ISLAND — C$20,734 over 3y, 19% of budgetComox Valley Food Bank Society — C$20,721 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CENTRAL VANCOUVER ISLAND — C$20,540 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCourtenay Elementary Community School Society — C$20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$18,050 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Comox Valley Hospice Society ↗
  • Who funds COMOX VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds North Island College ↗
  • Who funds COMOX VALLEY TRANSITION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LUSH Valley Food Action Society ↗
  • Who funds Comox Valley Art Gallery ↗
  • Who funds The Board of Education of School District No. 71 ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOLS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Filberg Heritage Lodge and Park Association ↗
  • Who funds COURTENAY RECREATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMOX VALLEY HEAD INJURY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds North Island College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Sid Williams Theatre Society ↗
  • Who funds Comox Valley Family Services Association ↗
  • Who funds Upper Island Women of Native Ancestry Society (UIWONA) ↗
  • Who funds DAWN TO DAWN ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds HORNBY ISLAND EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Comox Valley Project Watershed Society ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY COMOX VALLEY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Eureka Support Society ↗
  • Who funds St. George United Church ↗
  • Who funds Comox Valley Special Olympics ↗
  • Who funds L'Arche Comox Valley ↗
  • Who funds Comox Valley Senior Support Society ↗
  • Who funds Glacier View Lodge Society ↗
  • Who funds Comox Valley Therapeutic Riding Society ↗
  • Who funds Wachiay Friendship Centre Society ↗
  • Who funds Fanny Bay Community Association ↗
  • Who funds COMOX VALLEY COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN HOWARD SOCITY OF NORTH ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds Comox Bay Care Society ↗
  • Who funds DENMAN ISLAND COMMUNITY EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BEAUFORT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER ISLAND SOCIETY OF ADAPTIVE SNOW SPORTS ↗
  • Who funds Cumberland Community Forest Society ↗
  • Who funds THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COMOX VALLEY RECOVERY CENTRE SOCIETY ↗

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 Central an…Anglican Synod of the…Comox Valley Food Ban…St Michael & All Ange…The Victoria Foundati…Auxiliary Society for…St. George's United C…Unity Comox Valley Sp…Nanaimo Community Fou…Parksville - Qualicum…Bc Government Employe…Pacific Salmon Founda…
United Way Central and Northern Vancouver IslandBC31.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · Comox Valley Food Bank Society · St Michael & All Angels Protestant Chapel · The Victoria Foundation · Auxiliary Society for Comox Valley Healthcare · St. George's United Church · Unity Comox Valley Spiritual Center Society · Nanaimo Community Foundation · Parksville - Qualicum Community Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifique

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 155 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 2024-03-31, 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.

Source object 894354398:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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