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Powell River, BC · Public foundation

Powell River Community Foundation

To foster a spirit of giving to build a capital fund as a permanent legacy and distribute its earnings wisely in response to needs within the community.

C$31k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
1
Regions reached
C$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$3,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Malaspina Art SocietyC$7,000
Powell River Therapeutic Riding AssociationC$6,000
Senior Citizens' Association Branch 49C$4,547
Texada Island Non Profit Housing SocietyC$4,000
Townsite Jazz Festival SocietyC$3,500
Friends of Film Society Powell RiverC$3,000
Pacific Region International Summer Music AssociationC$2,000
Powell River Salvation ArmyC$850
Powell River Scholarship TrustC$380
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$101k · 8 repeat orgsC$32k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

C$101k
C$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+102%

Still filing today

88%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FILM SOCIETY OF POWELL RIVER
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$23k · revenue +96%
  • PR
    PACIFIC REGION INTERNATIONAL SUMMER MUSIC ACADEMY ASSOCI
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$22k · revenue +34%
  • SC
    Senior Citizens Branch 49
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$17k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CC
    CRANBERRY COMMUNITY HALL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +149% · 28% of their budget
  • MR
    Miklat Recovery Societygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +145%
  • CB
    CLUB BON ACCUEIL DE POWELL RIVERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +76%

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.

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The Powell River Sunset Homes Society

Providing low cost rental housing units for seniors and disabled individuals.

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2
Powell River Diversity Initiative Society
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3
Quadra Island Seniors Housing Society

Manage seniors housing property rentals

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4
Powell River Kiwanis Housing Society

To provide affordable accomodations to the elderly including various levels of living assistance and medical care.

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5
Pacific Rim Arts Society

Pacific rim summer festival cultural heritage festival missoula children's theatre artsplash show and exhibition youth & adult workshops battle of the bands monthly member shows and receptions

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6
Salmon Preservation Foundation

To provide support the operations and improvements to the powell river salmon society

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7
Powell River Salmon Society

Enhancement of salmon stocks

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8
Powell River Public Library

The Powell River Public Library provides library services including maintaining a collection for public lending technology access and a range of other programs and services to the citizens of the Powell River area. Ongoing programs at the…

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9
Quadra Island Recreation Society

To plan activate and facilitate as well as promote broadly based involvement in culture educational recreational and sports activities and contribute to enrichment of the individuals and community.

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10
Powell River Model Community Project for Persons With Disabilities
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11
Powell River Brain Injury Society

Promotes prevention recovery education and community awareness of brain injuries provides services to clients living with an acquired brain injury along with their families and caregivers.

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12
Port Coquitlam Senior Citizens Housing Society

1. Provides Complex Care for 131 Residents. The 131 Long Term Care Beds are funded by Fraser Health Authority. 2. Provides 70 Assisted Living/Supportive Housing Units defined as housing hospitality services and prescribed services. The 70…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inclusion Powell River Society and the most unlike its peers is Qathet Film Society. 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

18 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. 18 of the 19 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF FILM SOCIETY OF POWELL RIVER — C$23,250 over 5y, 13% of budgetPACIFIC REGION INTERNATIONAL SUMMER MUSIC ACADEMY ASSOCI — C$21,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSenior Citizens Branch 49 — C$17,296 over 3y, 12% of budgetPowell River Therapeutic Riding Association — C$14,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetPOWELL RIVER HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$9,250 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetTOWNSITE HERITAGE SOCIETY OF POWELL RIVER — C$8,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetMalaspina Art Society — C$7,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPOWELL RIVER ACADEMY OF MUSIC — C$5,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCRANBERRY COMMUNITY HALL ASSOCIATION — C$5,050 over 1y, 28% of budgetMiklat Recovery Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTexada Island Non Profit Housing Society — C$4,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTownsite Jazz Festival Society — C$3,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCLUB BON ACCUEIL DE POWELL RIVER — C$2,718 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE POWELL RIVER UNITED CHURCH — C$2,250 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPowell River Salvation Army — C$1,477 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPOWELL RIVER ACTION CENTRE SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINCLUSION POWELL RIVER SOCIETY — C$758 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPowell River Scholarship Trust — C$380 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

Powell River Health-C…Powell River and Dist…The United Church of …Raymond James Canada …PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Powell River Health-Care AuxiliaryBC8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Powell River Health-Care Auxiliary · Powell River and District United Way · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du Canada · Raymond James Canada Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 19 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 2022-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 868776782:2022-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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