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Kelowna, BC · Private foundation

Courage Foundation

The foundation provides gifts to qualified donees involved in education and children's services.

C$79k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$34k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$45k
C$3,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ETHNOS MINISTRIESC$25,000
IGLESIA CRISTIANA INDEPENDIENTE PENTECOSTES A.R.C$10,048
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$10,000
CALVARY CHAPEL KELOWNAC$6,000
CENTRAL OKANAGAN BURSARY & SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETYC$3,050
THE SALVATION ARMY KELOWNA MINISTRIESC$3,000
METRO COMMUNITY CHURCHC$3,000
COPS FOR KIDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$3,000
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE SOCIETYC$3,000
POWER TO CHANGEC$2,500
KIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATIONC$2,500
MISSION CREEK ALLIANCE CHURCHC$2,000
FREEDOM'S DOORC$2,000
KELOWNA WOMENS SHELTERC$1,000
KELOWNA GOSPEL MISSIONC$1,000
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$449k · 15 repeat orgsC$148k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

C$449k
C$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$26k 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

  • AT
    ADULT & TEEN SOCIETY OF BC
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$96k · revenue +68%
  • PT
    POWER TO CHANGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$42k · revenue +26%
  • EM
    ETHNOS MINISTRIES
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$41k · revenue +265%

Funded once

  • KT
    Kelowna Trinity Baptist Church
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue -22%
  • TW
    TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · C$35k · revenue +9%
  • CA
    CREATOR'S ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -36%

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
Okanagan Bible College

Training for christian ministry through undergraduate and graduate training.

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2
Kelowna Christian Center Society

Weekly church services. christian education junior kindergarten/preschool through grade 12 through both a campus school and an online school. christian outreach - local provincial national and international. pastoral care. programs for…

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3
Christian Reformed Campus Ministries Okanagan

Provides fellowship and worship services to the university in Kelowna. Programs include worship services fellowship with all members for spiritual help and growth support and counsel those in need help the poor and preach the gospel to…

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4
The House Church Kelowna

The House is more than a community centre—it's a vibrant faith-based third space where people from all walks of life come to connect grow and find belonging. Each week we host a variety of gatherings and spiritual services designed to…

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5
Hope Bible Church Kelowna

Church planting program ministries

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6
Canadian Baptist Ministries

Cbm is a global mission organization committed to sharing god's love through word and deed. we believe that god brings healing to a broken world through local churches. with over 150 years of experience we have seen that words and deeds…

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7
Okanagan Christian School

We offer a quality faith-based education from pre-school through grade twelve. extra curricular such as: sports mission(s) and academic field trips facilitated foster learning and community relations. in addition we conduct and participate…

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8
Story Church of Kelowna

We hold worship services weekly and offer pastoral care. Additionally we financially support overseas missionary activities by gifting funds to to them. We donate to all of our overseas and local missionaries through registered charities…

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9
Kingswood University

Kingswood University is accredited through the Commission on Accreditation of the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) and provides a number of educational options including 3-4 year baccalaureate degrees focused on vocational…

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10
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kelowna

Church worship and education in our community in kelowna bc through regular sunday servcies adult and youth education classes bible studies and pastoral care -food and material assistance to the needy in the community -assistance to…

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11
First Baptist Church Kelowna

Weekly worship services; weekly training for men women and children; weekly youth outreach; pastoral care and counselling; outreach to addction groups.

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12
Kelowna Harvest Ministries International

Weekly worship services weekly prayer meetings 24 hour a day prayer meetings weekly youth services weekly children's ministries counselling and mentoring outdoor worship festivals. Fund raising for orphans and widows sending funds to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Power to Change Ministries and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Alberta. 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

30 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. 30 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEthnos Ministries — C$155,000 over 6y, 46% of budgetADULT & TEEN SOCIETY OF BC — C$95,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetKelowna Trinity Baptist Church — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPOWER TO CHANGE — C$41,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetETHNOS MINISTRIES — C$41,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKELOWNA TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH LEGACY FOUNDATION — C$27,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY KELOWNA MINISTRIES — C$13,990 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN BURSARY & SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY — C$13,614 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBIA BIBLE COLLEGE — C$13,324 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOMS DOOR — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCREATOR'S ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTRY ALLIANCE CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMETRO COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetKELOWNA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKARIS SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMMANUEL CHURCH — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION SOCIETY — C$3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWestmount Church Association — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL AID NETWORK — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE LUZ OUTREACH MISTRIES — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION CREEK ALLIANCE CHURCH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN SERVICE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE OUTREACH — C$600 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Sonrise FoundationTraine Charitable Fou…Central Okanagan Foun…Felsen FoundationRotary Club of Kelown…Central Okanagan Comm…Falcon FoundationThe Calgary FoundationEvangel Church of Kel…First West FoundationThe Henry and Gertrud…Gateway Foundation
Sonrise FoundationBC15.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonrise Foundation · Traine Charitable Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · Felsen Foundation · Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundation · Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society · Falcon Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Evangel Church of Kelowna · First West Foundation · The Henry and Gertrude Sawatzky Family Foundation Inc. · Gateway 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 31 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 2024-04-30, 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 801357419:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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