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Nanoose Bay, BC · Private foundation

Knelson Family Foundation

Donations to other charitable organizations/qualified donees.

C$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$45k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Langley FoundationC$25,000
Faith and Love Children's MinistryC$20,000
Canadian Tire Jumpstart CharitiesC$5,000
BC Womens' Health FoundationC$2,500
Lending a Hand SocietyC$2,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$372k · 10 repeat orgsC$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

C$372k
C$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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

  • BC
    British Columbia Children's Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$135k · revenue +30%
  • TL
    The Langley Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$50k · revenue +348%
  • PS
    Pacific Salmon Foundation
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$45k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • CM
    Coast Mental Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +165%
  • OI
    Opportunity International Canada
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue -73%
  • MD
    Mission - DARD Search and Rescue Society
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue -26%

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
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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2
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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3
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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4
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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5
Sunny Hill Foundation for Children

To provide funding to sunny hill health centre for children (part of the bc children's hospital a program of provincial health services authority) for research equiment purchases education health promotion and program development.

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
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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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
The Lougheed Foundation

To provide funds to charitable organizations

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12
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of British Columbia. 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

23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBritish Columbia Children's Hospital Foundation — C$135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFaith and Love Children's Ministry — C$66,767 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetThe Langley Foundation — C$50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPacific Salmon Foundation — C$45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMovember — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Tire Jumpstart Charities — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCanuck Place Children's Hospice — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVeloo Foundation — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBC Women's Health Foundation — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoast Mental Health Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOpportunity International Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMission - DARD Search and Rescue Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSickkids Charitable Giving Fund — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStollery Children's Hospital Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAunt Leah's Foundation — C$5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBC Search & Rescue Association — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhistler Search and Rescue Society — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish British Columbia & Yukon Canada — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLending a Hand Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHaven Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLangley Animal Protection Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLangley Memorial Hospital Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of British Columbia — C$500 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.

Nicola Wealth Private…Wesmont FoundationCentra Cares Foundati…United Way British Co…Bc Government Employe…Vancity Community Fou…Vancouver FoundationRaymond James Canada …Aqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…BenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC9.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Wesmont Foundation · Centra Cares Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Vancity Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)

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 23 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 805319704:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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