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Creston, BC · Public foundation

Creston Valley Community Foundation

Qualifying disbursements that we make through gifts to qualified donees whose work improves the quality of life for the members of our community.

C$330k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$141k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k17 grants · C$67k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$62k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$201k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRESTON VALLEY COMMUNITY HOUSING SOCIETYC$141,370
VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICESC$60,000
NATURE TRUST OF BCC$49,970
CRESTON VALLEY TRAILS SOCIETYC$12,350
TOWN OF CRESTON - CRESTON VALLEY CYCLING ASSOCIATIONC$9,298
CRESTON PET ADOPTION AND WELFARE SOCIETYC$7,735
TOWN OF CRESTON - CRESTON VALLEY SENIORS ASSOCIATIONC$6,660
CRESTON VALLEY HOSPICE SOCIETYC$6,481
TRINITY UNITED CHURCH (REFUGEE COMMITTEE)C$6,000
STARBELLY JAM SOCIETYC$5,000
KOOTENAY-COLUMBIA DISCOVERY CENTREC$5,000
CRESTON VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIPC$3,375
CRESTON VALLEY MUSEUMC$3,000
COLLEGE OF THE ROCKIESC$3,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT #8 - ADAM ROBERTSON ELEMENTARYC$2,200
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 29 repeat orgsC$295k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
27

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+43%

Still filing today

90%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$68k 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

  • VC
    VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$328k · revenue +55%
  • CV
    CRESTON VALLEY COMMUNITY HOUSING SOCIETY
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$231k · revenue +915% · 44% of their budget
  • EK
    EAST KOOTENAY FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$174k · revenue +311%

Funded once

  • CF
    CRESTON-KOOTENAY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$111k · revenue ×17
  • CV
    CRESTON VALLEY GLEANERS SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k · revenue +78%
  • VC
    VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k

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
Columbia Valley Housing Society

Advocate for and develop affordable housing opportunities in the columbia valley

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2
Columbia Valley Greenways Trail Alliance

Developing maintaining and advocating responsible use of non-motorized trails on public and private land in the columbia valley of british columbia

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3
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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4
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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5
Central Kootenay Spay Neuter Animal Program Society

The spaying and neutering of cats and dogs within the creston valley including public educaiton of the benefits of spaying neutering for pets their owners and the community

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6
Columbia Valley Community Foundation

The columbia valley foundation achieved registered charity status in 2001. our purpose and mandate is to fund facilitate promote and carry out activities which improve the quality of life for columbia valley residents. we are an…

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7
Bulkley Valley Centre for Natural Resources Research and Management

Research advancement of scientific knowledge about the sustainability of natural resources. Create learning and extension opportunities for both our members and the community through workshops conferences other networking events and data…

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8
Crowe Valley Conservation Authority

To establish & undertake in the area over which the cvca has jurisdiction a program to further the conservation restoration development & management of natural resources other than gas oil & minerals. to control water levels & conduct…

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9
Friends of the Creston Public Library Society

To raise fund for the creston public library to promote the library & its uses

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10
Kootenay Columbia Trails Society

Establish and maintain a recreational trail network in and around the municipalities of Rossland Trail Warfield Montrose and Fruitvale in British Columbia for self-propelled activities including walking hiking trail running biking and…

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11
Coast Mountain College

Coast Mountain College (CMTN) is an accredited post-secondary institution that serves the diverse communities and learners of BC's beautiful northwest region. CMTN has four regional campuses where the College provides quality and…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kootenay-Columbia Discovery Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is Selkirk College Foundation. 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

45 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. 45 of the 60 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
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 budgetVALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$327,977 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetCRESTON VALLEY COMMUNITY HOUSING SOCIETY — C$231,231 over 3y, 44% of budgetEAST KOOTENAY FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH — C$173,500 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetKOOTENAY-COLUMBIA DISCOVERY CENTRE — C$55,500 over 4y, 26% of budgetNATURE TRUST OF BC — C$49,970 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOOTENAY REGION ASOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING — C$35,400 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetUNITED CHURCH OF CRESTON — C$34,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetHOLY CROSS CHURCH — C$31,218 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCreston and District Historical and Museum Society — C$30,113 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetCRESTON COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 5y, 72% of budgetCRESTON VALLEY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$24,079 over 5y, 31% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ROCKIES — C$23,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTON & DISTRICT SOCEITY FOR COMMUNITY LIVING(THERAPEUTIC — C$21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCRESTON VALLEY GLEANERS SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCreston Public Library — C$19,100 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTOWN OF CRESTON - CRESTON VALLEY CYCLING ASSOCIATION — C$15,958 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTON PET ADOPTION AND WELFARE SOCIETY — C$15,179 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSchool District #8 — C$14,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWYNNDEL COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$12,889 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetCRESTON VALLEY TRAILS SOCIETY — C$12,850 over 2y, 20% of budgetCreston Ministerial Association — C$12,552 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetCANYON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$10,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetSTARBELLY JAM SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetInterior Health Authority — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCresteramics Society — C$8,973 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCRESTON VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP — C$8,969 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetKOOTENAI COMMUNITY CARE SOCIETY — C$8,088 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCreston Valley Music Teachers Association — C$8,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetBOSWELL EMERGENCY VOLUNTEEERS — C$4,500 over 2y, 31% of budgetST STEPHENS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$4,100 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWILDSIGHT (CRESTON) — C$3,048 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoswell Historical Society — C$2,419 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCreston Valley Wildlife Management — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBC SENIOR GAMES SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSELKIRK COLLEGE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN PHYSICIANS AID AND RELIEF — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTSHORE COMMUNITY LIBRARY — C$925 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetThe Arthritis Society — C$700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetL'Arche Canada — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThompson Rivers University — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrestn Options for Sexual Health — C$300 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.

Creston Valley Gleane…Trinity United ChurchThe Western Communiti…Central Okanagan Foun…Osprey Community Foun…University of VictoriaThe Hamber FoundationVancity Community Fou…St. Stephen's Presbyt…Yasodhara Ashram Soci…Le Roi Community Foun…The Lions Club of Nel…
Creston Valley Gleaners SocietyBC24.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Creston Valley Gleaners Society · Trinity United Church · The Western Communities Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · Osprey Community Foundation · University of Victoria · The Hamber Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church · Yasodhara Ashram Society · Le Roi Community Foundation · The Lions Club of Nelson Charitable Trust

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 60 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 2024-12-31, 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 867050528:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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