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Kelowna, BC · Private foundation

Creating Courage Charitable Foundation

To receive gifts bequests funds and property and to hold invest administer and distribute funds and property for the purposes of the foundation for such other organizations as are ' qualified donees' under the provisions of the income tax act and for such other purposes and activities as are authorized for registered charities…

C$106k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$26,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COURAGE FOR YOUTH ASSOCIATIONC$30,000
GREEN BAY BIBLE CAMPC$26,000
COPS FOR KIDSC$25,000
BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$273k · 4 repeat orgsC$243k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

C$273k
C$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+72%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • CF
    COURAGE FOR YOUTH ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$187k · revenue +8% · 48% of their budget
  • PI
    PLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$66k · revenue +6%
  • MP
    MACKAY & PARTNERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$5k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • FF
    FALCON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$30k · revenue +16%
  • KF
    KGH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$27k
  • CO
    CENTRAL OKANAGAN FOOD BANK SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +51%

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
Central Okanagan Crime Stoppers Society

Assisting rcmp in solving crimes prevention of crime through education and programs

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2
Calgary Police Foundation

The calgary police foundation (cpf)operates under the name of the calgary police youth foundation. it's purpose is to educate youth about good citizenship safe communities policing and avoiding victimization and criminality. cpf does this…

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3
ComKids Foundation

Comkids foundation provides kids with tools and skills to help them reach their academic and social potential. we partner closely with educators police officers and subject matter experts to deliver programming that establishes healthy…

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4
Central Okanagan Science Opportunities for Kids Society
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5
Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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6
Jump! Canada Society

Jump programs teach a variet of life building skills thru outdoor adventure/challenges

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7
Odd Squad Productions Society

The Registered Charity continues to fulfill its mission by delivering prevention programs for youth through two pathways: Film and Educational Presentations and Physical Literacy Programs. The Registered Charity focuses on prevention…

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8
Chill Foundation of Canada /

Chill inspires young people through boardsports and builds a more equitable outdoor community. two programs are currently running teaching youth to snowboard skateboard and stand-up paddle board. one program is running in vancouver and one…

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9
Byte Camp Education Society

Taught creative technology skills to approximately 2000 youth aged 9-14 in after-school programs summer day camps and in school programming at 40 locations including remote First Nation Communities. Program included instruction on coding…

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10
Ymca Bc Properties Foundation

YMCA BC Properties Foundation provides grants to fund and support the YMCA BC (YMCA). The YMCA is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. They do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young…

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11
Cts Youth Society

CTS Youth Society is a non-profit organization that aims to connect every youth in Metro Vancouver with their natural environment their community and with each other through life-changing outdoor experiences. We are dedicated to developing…

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12
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plan International Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Aberdeen Hall Preparatory School 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

18 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. 18 of the 19 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
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 budgetCOURAGE FOR YOUTH ASSOCIATION — C$187,250 over 6y, 48% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$66,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFALCON FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREEN BAY BIBLE CAMP — C$26,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS — C$25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABERDEEN HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMETRO COMMUNITY — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWESTMOUNT CHURCH ASSOCIATION — C$14,200 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABIL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetELEVATION OUTDOORS — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMACKAY & PARTNERS FOUNDATION — C$5,300 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetTHIRD SPACE LIFE CHARITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN SEARCH AND RESCUE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOOL ARTT SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE CANADA — C$2,500 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.

Sonrise FoundationFalcon FoundationCentral Okanagan Foun…Traine Charitable Fou…Raymond James Canada …Nicola Wealth Private…First West FoundationKls FoundationCourage FoundationThe Merrifield Family…TELUS Friendly Future…The Calgary Foundation
Sonrise FoundationBC12.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonrise Foundation · Falcon Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · Traine Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · First West Foundation · Kls Foundation · Courage Foundation · The Merrifield Family Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Calgary 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 19 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 2024-11-30, 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 842378093:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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