Kimberley, BC · Public foundation
Kimberley & District Community Foundation
Funding qualified donees
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k8 grants · C$28k
- C$10k–50k4 grants · C$95k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIMBERLEY WELLNESS FOUNDATION | C$51,450 |
| KIMBERLEY HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK | C$36,000 |
| KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH | C$25,000 |
| KIMBERLEY HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY | C$23,300 |
| PINES MEMORIAL AND DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY | C$10,514 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$7,592 |
| BC GIRL GUIDES | C$5,000 |
| EAST KOOTENAY SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY - CRANBROOK & DI | C$4,595 |
| ROTARY CLUB- ROTARY CLUB OF KIMBERLY BC TRUST FOUNDATION | C$3,943 |
| COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY | C$2,124 |
| CRANBROOK WOMEN'S CENTRE -COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS SOC | C$1,588 |
| SUMMIT COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY | C$1,500 |
| LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY | C$1,500 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$36k went to new ones.
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
- VFVancouver Foundation4× · 2017–2022 · C$221k · revenue +99%
- KWKIMBERLEY WELLNESS FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · C$100k · revenue +373%
- WWILDSIGHT5× · 2018–2023 · C$88k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- KDKimberley District Heritage Societyone grant, 2017 · C$10k
- KPKIMBERLEY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · C$9k · revenue +11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · C$7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Education conservation recreation
The federation assists member libraries to improve library service in the Kootenay/Boundary region by the following means: support for an integrated library system promotion of public libraries resource development through consortium…
Funding qualified donees
Provide education to students pre-kindergarten to grade 9.
Support kimberley search and rescue by providing personnel training equipment and financial support. - primary role is to locate and rescue lost and injured persons. - support local authorites during mass casualty incidents and acts of…
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…
Delivery of children's health, education and environment programs. Development of community networks and collaborative partnerships.
1. services to job seekers including employment counseling job-seeker resource centre assessments funds for skills training small business development programming wage subsidies group employability and life-skills training work placement…
Family Place: Strong start Life after birth Pregnancy outreach program Indigenous Family Support. Childcare centers: Early Care and Learning Center Silver King Childcare Center Child Care Resource and Referral. Pediatric Therapy (physical…
Forest Conservation Environmental education awareness programs in BC schools Climate change awareness Community engagement Mother tree local leaders program Restoring our relationships with nature Building capacity for indigenous-led…
The foundation's activities are to receive gifts bequests funds and property and to hold invest and distribute grants to other organizations which are 'qualified donees' under the provisions of the income tax act. from fall 2017-2022 the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Connections Society of Southeast Bc and the most unlike its peers is Cranbrook & District Search and Rescue Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
26 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. 26 of the 36 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Vancouver Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLEY WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDSIGHT ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLY HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLEY HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PINES MEMORIAL AND DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH ↗
- Who funds SPARK SOCIETY FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLEY ARTS COUNCIL - CENTRE 64 ↗
- Who funds EAST KOOTENAY FOUNDATION OF HEALTH ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB- ROTARY CLUB OF KIMBERLY BC TRUST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BC GIRL GUIDES ↗
- Who funds BLUE LAKE FOREST EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EAST KOOTENAY SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY - CRANBROOK & DI ↗
- Who funds MADD CANADA ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLEY ELKS LODGE #90 ↗
- Who funds WEST KOOTENAY BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA BASIN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ROOTS OF EMPATHY ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK WOMEN'S CENTRE -COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS SOC ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLEY DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies · The Western Communities Foundation · Osprey Community Foundation · Columbia Valley Community Foundation · Kimberley Fellowship Baptist Church · St Andrew's Presbyterian Church · Le Roi Community Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Community Foundations of Canada · United Way British Columbia · Telus Employees 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.