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Vernon, BC · Private foundation

Foord Family Foundation

Distribution of funds to qualified donees as determined by the Board on an ongoing annual basis.

C$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$740k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$38k
  • C$10k–50k22 grants · C$406k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$277k
  • C$250k+6 grants · C$2.4M
C$11,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$108M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH OKANAGAN HOSPICE SOCIETYC$740,000
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION-VERNONC$500,000
TURNING POINTS COLLABORATIVE SOCIETYC$350,000
VERNON JUBILEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$300,000
ALLAN BROOKS NATURE CENTRE SOCIETYC$260,000
TAKE A HIKE YOUTH AT RISK FOUNDATIONC$260,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$225,000
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 22C$52,000
OKANAGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$45,000
ARCHWAY SOCIETY FOR DOMESTIC PEACEC$41,346
COMMUNITY DENTAL ACCESS CENTRE (NORTH OKANC$40,000
LITERACY SOCIETY OF THE NORTH OKANAGANC$30,000
NORTH OKANAGAN FRIENDSHIP CENTER SOCIETYC$27,940
NORTH OKANAGAN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETYC$25,000
HOPE AIRC$20,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.3M · 44 repeat orgsC$845k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
23

Total granted

C$6.3M
C$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+40%

Still filing today

98%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$716k 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

  • CM
    CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION - VERNON DISTRICT
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue +135%
  • NO
    NORTH OKANAGAN HOSPICE SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$769k · revenue +65%
  • NO
    North Okanagan Neurological Association
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$586k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • VD
    Vernon & District Immigrant & Community Services Society
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k
  • VN
    Vernon Native Housing Societygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k · revenue +84%
  • AO
    Autism Okanagan Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +136%

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
Victoria Sexual Assault Centre Society

VSAC provides crisis intervention justice-related support services and counselling programs for those affected by sexual assault and/or childhood sexual abuse. The Sexual Assault Response Team provides 24-hour emotional support to recent…

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2
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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3
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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4
Vancouver Island Integrated Counselling and Community Services Society

Affordable individual and group counselling services to residents of Nanaimo and surrounding communities. Awareness and education about mental health and emotional health wellness issues. Development of future mental health practitioners…

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5
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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6
Ending Violence Association of British Columbia

We provide support and training to almost 300 anti-violence programs across BC that respond to sexual and intimate partner violence child abuse and criminal harassment. We work to increase the coordination of services for survivors in the…

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7
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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8
Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports

Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports ('VASS') provides ski and snowboard programs for disabled students of all ages at the Vancouver based ski mountains. Programs include: a variety of Learn-to-Ski programs for all skill levels…

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9
Pacific Community Resources Society

The society operates alternative schools alcohol and drug counseling and prevention programs needle exchange program youth centres employment programs training for youth education assistance programs pathways to education program…

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10
Kootenay Career Development Society

o BC Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction: WorkBC Contracts o Province of British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training (now Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills): Retail Trades…

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11
East Kootenay Addiction Services Society

Provides free and confidential counselling to youth adults couples and families dealing with difficulties from their own or someone else's substance use. povides referral to approved residential treatment and detox facilities school based…

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12
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Sleep in Heavenly Peace. 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

77 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. 77 of the 80 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
52/77
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 budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION - VERNON DISTRICT — C$1,592,778 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$769,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetALLAN BROOKS NATURE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$685,000 over 6y, 68% of budgetVernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation — C$600,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetNorth Okanagan Neurological Association — C$585,750 over 6y, 14% of budgetTAKE A HIKE YOUTH AT RISK FOUNDATION — C$487,764 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 22 (VERNON) — C$385,107 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINTS COLLABORATIVE SOCIETY — C$350,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCHWAY SOCIETY FOR DOMESTIC PEACE — C$165,646 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Dental Access Centre (North Okanagan) Society — C$155,550 over 6y, 16% of budgetLITERACY SOCIETY OF THE NORTH OKANAGAN — C$110,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetVernon Science & Discovery Society — C$107,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetSchubert Centre Society — C$60,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH OKANAGAN — C$50,690 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetNexus BC Community Resource Centre Society — C$50,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOKANAGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN FRIENDSHIP CENTER SOCIETY — C$40,540 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetFamily Resource Centre Society for the North Okanagan — C$30,600 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY — C$29,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION & PUBLIC INFORMATION SOCIETY — C$28,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLearning Disabilities Association of British Columbia — C$26,236 over 5y, 55% of budgetThe Kidney Foundation of Canada, BC & Yukon Branch — C$24,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF BC — C$24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOkanagan Boys & Girls Clubs — C$23,573 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPallium Foundation of Canada — C$22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVERNON & DISTRICT IMMIGRANT & COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMackie Lake House Foundation — C$20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSleep in Heavenly Peace — C$20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetOperation Freedom Paws Canada Society — C$20,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetEnderby & District Community Resource Society — C$18,100 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetKALAMALKA STARFISH SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetVernon Native Housing Society — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE AUTISM SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHILLIWACK RESTORATIVE JUSTICE & YOUTH ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION — C$12,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCOLUMBIA BASIN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION NETWORK — C$11,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAutism Okanagan Association — C$10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN ARTISTS ALTERNATIVE — C$10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSHUSWAP OKANAGAN TREATMENT CENTRE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Canadian Red Cross Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVictoria Women's Transition House Society — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZAJAC RANCH SOCIETY — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Okanagan Society — C$8,755 over 2y, 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.

Community Foundation …First West FoundationVernon Alliance ChurchCentral Okanagan Foun…TELUS Friendly Future…Commonage Legacy Foun…United Way of North O…The Hamber FoundationUnited Way British Co…United Way Southern I…Nexus Bc Community Re…Chris-Spencer Foundat…
Community Foundation of the North OkanaganBC34.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the North Okanagan · First West Foundation · Vernon Alliance Church · Central Okanagan Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Commonage Legacy Foundation · United Way of North Okanagan Columbia Shuswap · The Hamber Foundation · United Way British Columbia · United Way Southern Interior Bc · Nexus Bc Community Resource Centre Society · Chris-Spencer 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 80 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 815351663:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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