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Kelowna, BC · Public foundation

Kelowna Professional Firefighters Charitable Society

The society makes gifts to qualified donees such as burn funds hospital foundations disaster relief and other local charities.

C$147k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 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–50k6 grants · C$114k
C$3,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$330k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brain TrustC$45,000
BCPFF Burn FundC$16,500
Individual grant recipientC$13,000
Individual grant recipientC$13,000
Individual grant recipientC$13,000
Individual grant recipientC$13,000
Individual grant recipientC$6,500
Individual grant recipientC$6,500
Paws it ForwardC$3,700
MD CanadaC$3,000
East Meets WestC$2,000
Community Recreational Initiatives SocietyC$2,000
Okanagan Humane SocietyC$2,000
H.O.P.E. OutreachC$2,000
Childhood ConnectionsC$2,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 80% of grant dollars (C$256k). The 20% that went abroad (C$66k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 20% of all-years giving (C$66k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$183k · 24 repeat orgsC$138k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
21

Total granted

C$183k
C$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+63%

Still filing today

100%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$122k 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

  • BP
    BC Professional Firefighters Burn Fund
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$120k · revenue +67%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    3× · 2017–2023 · C$12k · revenue ×121
  • EM
    East Meets West
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$5k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • SC
    Starbright Children's Development Centregraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +26%
  • KF
    KGH Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue +101%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH OKANAGANgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue +108%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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2
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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3
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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4
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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5
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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6
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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7
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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8
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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9
Special Olympics British Columbia Society

Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…

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10
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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11
Prostate Cancer Canada

Prostate Cancer Canada has continued to responsibly invest the generous donations of Canadians to develop the most promising studies and minds Canada has to offer in the field of prostate cancer research. We have continued to ensure the…

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12
Canuck Place Children's Hospice

Canuck Place Children’s Hospice is British Columbia and the Yukon’s pediatric palliative care program. Over 920 children living with life-threatening illnesses and families from five provincial health regions receive Canuck Place inpatient…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia/Yukon Command of the Royal Canadian Legion Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Inn From the Cold - Kelowna. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
36/50
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 budgetBC Professional Firefighters Burn Fund — C$119,800 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetBrain Trust — C$45,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$11,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetEast Meets West — C$5,480 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN FOOD BANK — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPaws it Forward — C$3,700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS CANADA — C$2,861 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStarbright Children's Development Centre — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetH.O.P.E. Outreach — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Recreational Initiatives Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOkanagan Humane Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildhood Connections — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRoyal Canadian Legion Branch 26 — C$1,950 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA of the Southern Interior — C$1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKGH Foundation — C$1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBridge Youth and Family Services — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Okanagan Hospice Association — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Fallen Heroes Foundation — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH OKANAGAN — C$1,270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION — C$1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBC THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION — C$1,040 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CANADA FOUNDATION — C$1,002 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInn From the Cold Kelowna — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInspireHealth — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJDRF — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVariety Childrens Charity — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Literacy Kelowna Society — C$1,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProstate Cancer Fight Foundation — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS — C$1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY T — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKANAGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society of BC — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson Society British Columbia — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Research Foundation of BC — C$500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Canada — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeople in Motion — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Sea Philanthropy — C$250 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.

Central Okanagan Foun…United Way Southern I…First West FoundationUnited Way British Co…Raymond James Canada …The Barry Lapointe Fo…Bc Government Employe…Community Foundation …The Calgary FoundationFalcon FoundationTELUS Friendly Future…Nicola Wealth Private…
Central Okanagan FoundationBC21.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Okanagan Foundation · United Way Southern Interior Bc · First West Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Barry Lapointe Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Community Foundation of the North Okanagan · The Calgary Foundation · Falcon Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Nicola Wealth Private Giving 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 58 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 864459342:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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