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Kelowna, BC · Private foundation

Shepard Charitable Foundation

Supporting other registered charities

C$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
C$500
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$421k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Central Okanagan Food BankC$10,000
Ronald McDonald HouseC$10,000
Pacific Assistance DogsC$5,000
Toronto Metropolitan UniversityC$500
Sanare CentreC$500
Kelowna Community ResourcesC$500
Canadian Cancer SocietyC$500
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$53k · 5 repeat orgsC$44k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

C$53k
C$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House BC and Yukon
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$25k · revenue +90%
  • CO
    Central Okanagan Food Bank
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$25k · revenue +51%
  • SC
    Sanare Centre
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$2k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CA
    Child Advocacy Centre of Kelownagraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue +48%
  • OC
    Okanagan College Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +34%
  • RH
    Rick Hansen Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +29%

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
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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2
The Ibd Centre of British Columbia Society

A multidisciplinary clinic education and research centre serving over 25 000 british columbians living with with inflammatory bowel disease the ibd centre of bc addresses the challenges facing these individuals their families and the…

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3
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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4
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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5
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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6
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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7
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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8
Special Olympics British Columbia Society

Special Olympics British Columbia Society provides year-round sport training and competitive activities that lead to participation in regional provincial and national events providing opportunities for individuals with intellectual…

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9
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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10
Kelowna Arts Academy Society

Studio 9 provides school for grades Kindergarten to Grade 12 that focuses on integrating the arts into all curriculum and teaching enhanced arts subjects in a project-based collaborative manner. We value the use of imagination student…

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11
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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12
Make a Wish Foundation of British Columbia and the Yukon

Our mission at Make-A-Wish Foundation BC & Yukon is to grant the wishes of children with life threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope strength and joy. Together we create life-changing wishes for children…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kelowna Community Resources Society and the most unlike its peers is Toronto Metropolitan University. 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

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
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 budgetChild Advocacy Centre of Kelowna — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House BC and Yukon — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Okanagan Food Bank — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Assistance Dogs — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOkanagan College Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRick Hansen Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanare Centre — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKelowna Community Resources Society — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLethbridge school Division — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKelowna Buddhist Temple — C$500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetToronto Metropolitan University — 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…TELUS Friendly Future…The Kpmg Foundation/L…Doane Grant Thornton …The Calgary FoundationVancouver FoundationBc Government Employe…United Way British Co…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · United Way British Columbia · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · 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 12 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 763254265:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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