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Kelowna, BC · Private foundation

Felsen Foundation

It made giftst to qualified donees.

C$8.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$8.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k16 grants · C$63k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$124k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$8.2M
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMPOWER MINISTRIESC$8,218,336
SEEDS OF HOPE CHILDREN MINISTRYC$35,000
OUTREACH CANADAC$25,000
CARIBOO HOUSE CHURCHESC$20,000
OKANAGAN VALLEY PREGNANCY CARE CENTREC$17,000
BRIDGES TO NEW LIFEC$17,000
NEW MANNA MINISTRIESC$10,000
CANADA INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICSC$9,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILYC$5,000
YOUTH FOR CHRIST WINNIPEGC$5,000
CENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOODBANK SOCIETYC$5,000
KELOWNA CHRISTIAN CENTREC$5,000
FAR EAST BROADCASTING CANADAC$5,000
ETHNOS MINISTRIESC$5,000
GREEN BAY BIBLE CAMPC$4,200
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$36M · 45 repeat orgsC$219k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
15

Total granted

C$36M
C$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+7%

Still filing today

96%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k 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

  • EM
    EMPOWER MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$32M · revenue +172% · 59% of their budget
  • TW
    TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$625k · revenue +60%
  • OC
    Outreach Canada
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$275k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • KG
    KELOWNA GOSPEL MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$100k · revenue +33%
  • TC
    The Catholic Independent Schools of Nelson Diocese
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +20%
  • FB
    First Baptist Church Kelowna
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k

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
International Christian Ministries

International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…

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3
Bic Canada - Global

Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…

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4
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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5
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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6
Kingdom Insight Global Missions

1. Leadership Development (Zambia) KiG Missions supports the development of local Christian leaders in Zambia through workshops mentorship and leadership training. The goal is to empower pastors and community leaders with biblical…

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7
Kaleo Canada Inc.

Christian Missions funding to advance the Christian Gospel

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8
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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9
Chinese International Missions (Canada)

Provide education and encouragement to developing countries conduct seminars and provide overseas short-term mission trops to christians recruit and train missionaries to work

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10
Training Leaders International Canada

To provide training and teaching to Christian church leaders around the world.

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11
Asian Outreach International (Canada)

1. Teaching the Word of God and preaching the Gospel of Jesus 2. Working with Individual missionaries and mission organizations engaged in the propagation of Jesus Christ 3. Direct evangelism and discipleship of national Christians

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12
Ethnos Canada

Ethnos Canada assisted Canadian churches in fulfilling the Biblical mandate to communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world by training and mobilizing approved missionaries and engaging in and supporting church-planting…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kelowna Christian Center Society and the most unlike its peers is Paoc Mission Link. 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

60 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. 60 of the 62 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/60
Grantees still filing
39/60
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 budgetEMPOWER MINISTRIES — C$32,236,987 over 8y, 59% of budgetEvangel Church — C$691,500 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetTRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY — C$625,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOutreach Canada — C$275,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetWELLSPRING FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION — C$200,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE CHILDRENS MINISTRY — C$195,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — C$160,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRESURRECTION RECOVERY RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$159,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetBC TEEN CHALLENGE — C$135,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBridges to New Life — C$126,500 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetOKANAGAN VALLEY PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE — C$124,000 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetKELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSUMMIT PACIFIC COLLEGE — C$90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEW MANNA MINISTRIES — C$80,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetJewish National Fund of Canada — C$80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Voice Ministries Int'l — C$70,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetKELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MISSION SERVICES — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetERDO — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHope for the Nations — C$46,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSalvation Army — C$46,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetETHNOS MINISTRIES — C$39,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetCANADA INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS — C$38,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetKELOWNA CHRISTIAN CENTRE — C$36,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAR EAST BROADCASTING CANADA — C$32,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCARIBOO HOUSE CHURCHES — C$30,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetBible League of Canada — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrinity Baptist Church — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFLYING BOW MUSIC MINISTRY — C$29,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetFOCUS ON THE FAMILY — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Catholic Independent Schools of Nelson Diocese — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHANDS IN SERVICE — C$24,500 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOODBANK SOCIETY — C$22,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCALVARY CHAPEL — C$20,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENTS MINISTRY — C$17,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST WINNIPEG — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKELOWNA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARK CHILDREN'S MINISTRY — C$12,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSamaritan's Purse — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARIBOO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$10,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPAOC-UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAOC — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEmblaze — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetThird Space Life Charity Foundation — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetON EAGLES WINGS — C$5,250 over 1y, 61% of budgetMetro Community — C$5,000 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.

  • Who funds EMPOWER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Evangel Church ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Outreach Canada ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE CHILDRENS MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds RESURRECTION RECOVERY RESOURCE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BC TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
  • Who funds Bridges to New Life ↗
  • Who funds OKANAGAN VALLEY PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds KELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT PACIFIC COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NEW MANNA MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Jewish National Fund of Canada ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Voice Ministries Int'l ↗
  • Who funds KELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MISSION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ERDO ↗
  • Who funds Hope for the Nations ↗
  • Who funds Salvation Army ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds ETHNOS MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CANADA INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS ↗
  • Who funds KELOWNA CHRISTIAN CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CARIBOO HOUSE CHURCHES ↗
  • Who funds Bible League of Canada ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Baptist Church ↗
  • Who funds FLYING BOW MUSIC MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS ON THE FAMILY ↗
  • Who funds The Catholic Independent Schools of Nelson Diocese ↗
  • Who funds HANDS IN SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOODBANK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY CHAPEL ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST WINNIPEG ↗
  • Who funds KELOWNA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗

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.

Evangel Church of Kel…Traine Charitable Fou…Sonrise FoundationGateway FoundationCourage FoundationCanadian National Chr…Kelowna Trinity Bapti…Kairos FoundationFalcon FoundationCentral Okanagan Foun…Kelowna Gospel Fellow…The Henry and Gertrud…
Evangel Church of KelownaBC14.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Evangel Church of Kelowna · Traine Charitable Foundation · Sonrise Foundation · Gateway Foundation · Courage Foundation · Canadian National Christian Foundation · Kelowna Trinity Baptist Church · Kairos Foundation · Falcon Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · Kelowna Gospel Fellowship Church · The Henry and Gertrude Sawatzky Family Foundation Inc.

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 62 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 2024-01-31, 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 132948852:2024-01-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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