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Prince George, BC · Private foundation

Novak Family Foundation

Donations to qualified donees

C$91k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$55k
C$5,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN OF CARROT RIVERC$55,000
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 57C$10,000
GRANDE CACHE SEARCH AND RESCUEC$10,000
CHRUCH OF OUR LADY OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL PARISHC$5,000
PRINCE GEORGE HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETYC$5,000
FRASER-FORT GEORGE MUSEUM SOCIETYC$2,500
MINERVA FOUNDATION FOR BC WOMENC$2,500
ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOLC$1,000
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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$427k · 9 repeat orgsC$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
21

Total granted

C$427k
C$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$55k 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

  • IC
    IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$162k · revenue +23% · 91% of their budget
  • PG
    PRINCE GEORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$106k · revenue +219%
  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 57 (PRINCE GEORGE)
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$85k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • NE
    NORTH EAST SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 200
    one grant, 2022 · C$1.0M · revenue +18%
  • SV
    St Vincent de Paul Society
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +16%
  • NL
    NESS LAKE BIBLE CAMPgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue +233%

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
Prince George Search and Rescue Society

Pgsar assists in locating and transporting lost/injured persons within northern bc. pgsar offers assistance to remove individuals from hazardous locations through technical rescue capabilities locates lost individuals provides medical…

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2
Northern Community Counselling Centre Society

The society operates to provide counselling services to the community of prince george and surrounding area as well as to provide practicum placement to counselling students from the university of northern bc.

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3
Northern Bc Crime Stoppers Society

Crime prevention public safety preservation of law and order in the prince george area.

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4
Prince George Regional Highway Rescue Society

Highway and off road vehicle extraction and over the bank rescue

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5
Prince George Native Friendship Centre Society

Service to indigenous communities in prince george bc area. relief of poverty and homlessness training and education foodbank and community kitchen access to counselling dentists pain clinics and cultural programs employment skills and…

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6
Prince George Pregnancy Care Centre Society
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7
Prince George Brain Injured Group Society

We provide residential and community programs specialized case management educational and supportive programming social events as well as employment assistance for individuals with acquired brain injury and those working with them. We also…

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8
Volunteer Prince George

Recruit volunteers for non-profit organizations and refer them to volunteer opportunities. promote training programs workshops and general information about volunteerism and volunteer management. promote volunteering and volunteer…

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9
Prince George Family Services Society

The society is funded & mandated to provide family preservation/support services to families whose children may be at risk of being removed from home/community due to behavioural issues dysfunction in the home crises. supports include…

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10
Prince George Humane Society

The society provides a safe haven for abused neglected and abandoned animals. the society also funds an adoption program for rescued animals as well as providing humane education.

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11
Prince George Therapeutic Riding Association

Provides therapeutic and recreational horseback riding to children and adults with disabilities.

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12
North Coast Transition Society

The north coast transition society operates a transition house and counselling services in prince rupert bc for women who have been abused and for children who have witnessed and experienced abuse. the society also administers a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Reformation House. 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

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 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
22/26
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 budgetNORTH EAST SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 200 — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetIMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH — C$161,500 over 4y, 91% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$106,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 57 (PRINCE GEORGE) — C$85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSt Vincent de Paul Society — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNESS LAKE BIBLE CAMP — C$25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetGRANDE CACHE SEARCH AND RESCUE — C$20,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCHRUCH OF OUR LADY OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL PARISH — C$16,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPrince George Hospice Society — C$13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EXPLORATION PLACE — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFORT ST. JAMES SEARCH AND RESCUE — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPrince George Council of Seniors — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMINERVA BC — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 28 (QUESNEL) — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Cariboo Aboriginal Family Program Society — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE — C$5,425 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND CACHE TRANSITION SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCRISIS PREVENTION INTERVENTION & INFO CENTRES — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRAND CACHE CHILD CARE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE & DISTRICT SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetREFORMATION HOUSE — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE ALANO SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHERN BC FRIENDS OF CHILDREN — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMACKENZIE AUTUMN CHARITY SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTHAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — 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.

The Prince George Com…United Way of Norther…Spirit of the North H…The Canfor Good Thing…Bc Government Employe…The Kpmg Foundation/L…The Western Communiti…Community Foundations…Telus Employees Chari…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
The Prince George Community FoundationBC19.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Prince George Community Foundation · United Way of Northern British Columbia · Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation · The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · The Western Communities Foundation · Community Foundations of Canada · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 31 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 2024-05-31, 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 882707763:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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