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Kelowna, BC · Public foundation

Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundation

Provide a vehicle for rotarians and friends to invest donations that directly support causes within the community that aim at improving the quality of life in the okanagan.

C$211k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$54k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$47k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$110k
C$6,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY OF HOPEC$60,000
FREEDOMS DOOR (RESURRECTION RECOVERY RESOURCE SOCIETY)C$50,000
OKANAGAN COLLEGEC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$12,000
SENIORS OUTREACH SOCIETYC$10,000
C.O.A.C.H. CENTRAL OKANAGAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIAC HEALTHC$10,000
CENTRAL OKANAGAN FOUNDATIONC$9,368
KELOWNA PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVALC$6,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT#23 GATEWAYC$6,000
H.O.P.E - HELPING OUT PEOPLE EXPLOITED SOCIETYC$6,000
SALVATION ARMY COMMUNITY CHURCHC$5,050
LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$3,889
KELOWNA FOOD BANK OUTREACH SOCIETYC$3,687
PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETYC$3,500
UNION GOSPEL MISSION FOOD BANKC$2,853
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$838k · 26 repeat orgsC$238k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
23

Total granted

C$838k
C$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+41%

Still filing today

96%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$98k 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

  • FD
    FREEDOMS DOOR (RESURRECTION RECOVERY RESOURCE SOCIETY)
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$100k · revenue +29%
  • CO
    Central Okanagan Community Food Bank
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$90k · revenue +314%
  • OC
    OKANAGAN COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$71k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • OB
    Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$38k · revenue +76%
  • KF
    Kelowna Foundation for Hope and Social Innovation - Child Ad
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue -97%
  • NA
    NITEO AFRICAN SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$19k · revenue -1%

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
John Howard Society of Okanagan & Kootenay

Supportive housing & shelter adult restorative justice forensic psychiatric outreach services outreach and community inclusion community housing skills training programs

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2
Central Okanagan Crime Stoppers Society

Assisting rcmp in solving crimes prevention of crime through education and programs

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3
Okanagan Halfway House Society

The society operates a halfway house under contract with correctional service canada in kelowna b.c.

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4
South Okanagan Women in Need Society

Operate a transition house for women and children who experience abuse provide support and advocate to women (and their children) who experiecne abuse. provide individual and communtiy education to work toward prevention of violence and…

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5
Community Foundation of the North Okanagan

The Community Foundation of the North Okanagan receives and manages capital contributions in perpetuity and invests this capital so as to generate income. The Foundation distributes a portion of the income in the form of qualifying…

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6
South Okanagan Victim Assistance Society
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7
Central Okanagan Search & Rescue Society

Providing search and rescue services to the central okanagan regional district including kelowna and surrounding areas. the society also conducts awareness campaigns and public safety information sessions. the society responds to requests…

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8
Central Okanagan Region Nutrition Society

The charitable activities this program is engaged in is the delivery of hot and cold and frozen meals 6 days each week to homebound seniors and disabled persons in the Central Okanagan. Volunteers are the backbone of this delivery service…

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9
The Okotoks Foodbank

Providing food to local families in need.

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10
West Kelowna Shelter Society

The society's goal is to provide immedicate needs for overnight accommodation basic nutrition and hygiene for west kelowna homeless.

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11
Okanagan Village Housing Society

The okanagan village housing society provides affordable housing in the north okanagan for individuals and families with low to moderate incomes.

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12
Central Okanagan Science Opportunities for Kids Society
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Okanagan Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Merritt Rotary Club 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

46 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. 46 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
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 budgetFREEDOMS DOOR (RESURRECTION RECOVERY RESOURCE SOCIETY) — C$100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCentral Okanagan Community Food Bank — C$90,388 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOKANAGAN COLLEGE — C$71,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER BOX CANADA — C$62,328 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF HOPE — C$60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$58,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION AMRY KELOWNA — C$50,395 over 7y, 27% of budgetKGH Foundation — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOkanagan Boys and Girls Club — C$37,550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSilverlake Forest Education Society — C$37,500 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCOACH -CENTRAL OKANAGAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIAC HEALTH — C$30,900 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE OF KELOWNA SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetKelowna Foundation for Hope and Social Innovation - Child Ad — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBoard of Education of School District 23 — C$23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNITEO AFRICAN SOCIETY — C$19,206 over 1y, 13% of budgetKAMLOOPS FOOD BANK & OUTREACH SOCIETY — C$17,811 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — C$15,322 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetH.O.P.E - HELPING OUT PEOPLE EXPLOITED SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetHands in Service — C$14,492 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetYMCA OF THE OKANAGAN — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Literacy Kelowna — C$10,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSENIORS OUTREACH SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN FOUNDATION — C$9,368 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$8,789 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — C$8,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OKANAGAN SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$6,422 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY — C$6,400 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKELOWNA PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL — C$6,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH OKANAGAN SIMILKAMEEN — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAdult & Teen Challenge — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPURKIDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKelowna Gospel Mission Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOW CANADA — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY FOOD BANK — C$4,572 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetReach Out Youth Counselling — C$4,550 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOKANAGAN TREE FRUIT PROJECT — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKARIS SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOkanagan College - Strive awards — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROLL A HIPPO FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCentral Okanagan Emergency Shelter Society — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELEVATION OUTDOORS EXPERIENTIAL PROGRAMS ASSOCIATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity Baptist Church Legacy Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKELOWNA MUSEUM SOCIETY — C$750 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Central Okanagan Foun…First West FoundationUnited Way Southern I…The Colin & Lois Prit…Falcon FoundationTraine Charitable Fou…Sonrise FoundationCentral Okanagan Comm…The Merrifield Family…Community Foundation …TELUS Friendly Future…The Barry Lapointe Fo…
Central Okanagan FoundationBC28× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Okanagan Foundation · First West Foundation · United Way Southern Interior Bc · The Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundation · Falcon Foundation · Traine Charitable Foundation · Sonrise Foundation · Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society · The Merrifield Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the North Okanagan · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Barry Lapointe Foundation

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 55 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 889164190:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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