Clearwater, BC · Public foundation
North Thompson Communities Foundation
The growth and stewardship of permanent funds and the distribution of income to a broad range of eligible organizations in the north thompson area of bc.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 73 (KAML( ) | C$4,000 |
| THOMPSON NICOLA REGIONAL DISTRICT | C$3,953 |
| NORTH THOMPSON FALL FAIR & RODEO | C$3,600 |
| BARRIERE OUTDOOR SOCIETY | C$2,700 |
| BARRIERE SEARCH & RESUE ASSOC. | C$2,000 |
| BARRIERE & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY | C$1,000 |
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 +83% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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
- YCYELLOWHEAD COMMUNTY SERVICES4× · 2017–2023 · C$26k · revenue +56%
- NTNORTH THOMPSON FALL FAIR & RODEO3× · 2021–2024 · C$8k · revenue +83%
- TBTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 73 (KAML( )3× · 2022–2024 · C$8k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- DHDR. HELMCKEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUXILLARYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$27k · revenue +128% · 35% of their budget
- VCVAVENBY CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · C$14k · revenue -12%
- ACALPINE CANADAone grant, 2021 · C$14k
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.
The barrhead centennial museum collects and displays local artifacts. in the 2023-2024 operating year the museum had 581 visitors. twenty three volunteers assisted with managing and operating the museum. the volunteers donated 425 hours of…
We are a community resource of volunteers assisting the bc emergency health services with high acuity medical emergencies when bcehs is delayed or needs assistance. we service an area of about 3700 square kms. additionally we provide…
Collecting and preserving local artifacts. Summer student employment for visitors to the archives building and displays. Digitization of artifacts and communications through social media and the website. Participated in Bayfield Arts…
Building and maintaining non-motorized trails for public use (hiking biking horseback riding cross-country skiing). Grooming trails for winter use. Communicating with the public via website and trail heads on trail conditions and news.
Maintain the heritage site and buildings on the historic Baillie property. Promote Merritt's history through site tours. Provide visitor information to locals and tourists from all over the world.
Programs remained relatively consistent in 2024 - support services in the barrhead area such as foodbank seniors programs youth programs and various other family and community support programs.
Operating of a salmon counting fence for coho and pink salmon in the tlell river watershed. maintenance on interpretative hiking trails in the tlell river watershed. hosting community stewardship activities related to health of the tlell…
Facilitating completion of work on adra tunnel and promoting awareness of trails in the region.
Operation and maintenance of ice hockey arena
Collecting artifacts for the local museum cataloging them and helping with displays documenting historical data digitizing and photohgraphing all artifacts
Open heritage buildings and interpret artifacts and displays for public viewing. restoration of designated buildings and equipment.
Restoration and display of historical cnr caboose number 78175 in furtherance of our goal of 'protecting and preserving historial railway artifacts'
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barriere and District Heritage Society and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundations of Canada. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 27 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 DR. HELMCKEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUXILLARY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWHEAD COMMUNTY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VAVENBY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds NORTH THOMPSON FALL FAIR & RODEO ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 73 (KAML( ) ↗
- Who funds BARRIERE AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BARRIERE & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BARRIERE OUTDOOR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BARRIERE SEARCH & RESUE ASSOC. ↗
- Who funds CLEARWATER CHRISTIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN ACRES SENIOR HOUSING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MISCHIF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PRESERV ↗
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.
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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.