Courtenay, BC · Charitable organization
Comox Valley Food Bank Society
To relieve poverty by operating a food bank that distributes food and other necessities to persons of low income Supporting local programs that provide meals for those experiencing food insecurity Food Rescue from local vendors Over 20 volunteers assist in delivering our program
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cumberland Community School Society | C$2,500 |
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.
daycare program and out of school program
Lunch Munch/School Meals Lunch Munch provides home-made and nutritious food at no cost to school aged children in need and their family throughout the year. While we offer these food provisions we also ensure that recipients practise food…
Too many kids don’t know where food comes from or have access to nourishing whole food. We’re on a mission to change that. Growing Chefs trains and supports chef and community volunteers to deliver our Classroom Gardening & Cooking…
The Fruit Tree and Farm Gleaning Program utilizes volunteers to harvest and redistribute thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and produce from homes farms and orchards that would otherwise go to waste and re-distributes the produce back to…
Drop-in meal programs including family drop in (for parents and caregivers and childre ages 0-18) early years drop in (for parents & caregivers and children ages 0-6) community drop in (open to all). after school programs for elementary…
Child care kids club after school care
Nursery school & after school care
Public education seedy saturday event food gardenings workshops
Alberni Valley Childcare Society provides childcare to the Alberni Valley. They operate three sites and programs for infants toddlers ages 3-5 and before/after school care
Daycare and afterschool care provider
Childcare services for infant / toddler age 3-5 program and school age after school and before school programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cumberland Community Schools Society and the most unlike its peers is Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society (Mars). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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.
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.
Open a dossier: Comox Valley Community Foundation · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.