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Kelowna, BC · Private foundation

Sonrise Foundation

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C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$50k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$520k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$800k
C$70,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERC$300,000
OKANAGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$250,000
THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETYC$250,000
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
KELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION SOCIETYC$100,000
THE BC LIONS FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES ( EASTER SEALS BC$100,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$70,000
HOPE INTERNATIONALC$50,000
DEVELOPING WORLD CONNECTIONS SOCIETYC$50,000
ARTHRITIS SOCIETY CANADAC$50,000
PARKINSON SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$20,000
CENTRAL OKANAGAN HOSPICE ASSOCIATIONC$20,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETYC$10,000
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.8M · 22 repeat orgsC$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
35

Total granted

C$5.8M
C$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$600k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’24
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

  • KG
    KELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$1.6M · revenue +101%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$774k · revenue ×14 · 87% of their budget
  • PB
    PRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTE
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$625k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • KT
    KELOWNA TRINIT BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · C$386k · revenue -22%
  • HG
    HOPE GROWS HAITI
    one grant, 2017 · C$175k · revenue -57% · 49% of their budget
  • TW
    TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$167k · revenue +60%

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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Compassion Canada

Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…

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2
Pih Partners in Health Canada

Partners In Health Canada works in partnership with sister organizations in settings of poverty around the world to bring health and social justice to vulnerable and marginalized communities. We deliver high quality comprehensive health…

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3
Okanagan College

Okanagan College (OC) provides a wide variety of educational programs in career continuing education degree developmental trades technology arts science business health university transfer and vocational disciplines. Annual fundraising…

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4
One Girl Can Society

One Girl Can gives some of the world’s most vulnerable high-potential girls a chance to rise above extreme poverty and gender inequality. Through education training and mentoring girls are empowered to achieve their goals earn a meaningful…

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5
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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6
Vancity Community Foundation

VCF delivers funding and develops charitable programs and projects that contribute to economic inclusion social justice and environmental sustainability. Key program areas include: 1) Providing grants to qualified donees in partnership…

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7
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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8
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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9
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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10
Kelowna Community Resources Society

Kcr's vision is to have a community where individuals and families are supported in leading healthy productive and fulfilling lives. our mission is to foster diversity collaboration and resourcefulness by tailoring services to meet…

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11
Options for Sexual Health

Based in BC Options is Canada's largest non-profit provider of sexual health services through clinics education programs an information and referral service. We also have a peer support program for women living with HIV/HCV. We champion…

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12
Central Okanagan Foundation

1. inform & educate the public on community foundations and the positive effects of endowment contributions. 2. make grants to qualified donees who provide services to the community. 3. administer on behalf of municipal government granting…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Power to Change Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Prairie Bible Institute. 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

63 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. 63 of the 65 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
37/63
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 budgetKELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,615,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — C$773,500 over 3y, 87% of budgetPRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTE — C$625,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetOKANAGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$506,325 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPOWER TO CHANGE MINISTRIES — C$397,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKELOWNA TRINIT BAPTIST CHURCH — C$386,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$370,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKELOWNA TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH LEGACY FOUNDATION — C$223,704 over 2y, 19% of budgetHOPE GROWS HAITI — C$175,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetNOW CANADA SOCIETY — C$170,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY — C$167,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LEPROSY MISSION CANADA — C$155,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVANGEL TABERNACLE OF KELOWNA — C$125,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetKELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION SOCIETY — C$104,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHIRD SPACE LIFE CHARITY SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OKANAGAN SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BC LIONS FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES ( EASTER SEALS B — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetT.O.P. FOUNDATION — C$90,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetYOUNG LIFE OF CANADA — C$65,650 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWESTMOUNT CHURCH ASSOCIATION — C$63,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetHOCKEY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — C$51,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKARIS SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA INC. — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPING WORLD CONNECTIONS SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTORCHBEARERS CAPENWRAY CANADA SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGLORY CHURCH — C$50,000 over 2y, 76% of budgetRESURRECTION RECOVERY RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$41,750 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — C$29,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOKANAGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOKANAGAN VALLEY PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE — C$25,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — C$24,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREACHOUT YOUTH MINISTRIES, INC — C$24,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCREATOR'S ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN HOSPICE ASSOCIATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetVANCOUVER LIFE CHURCH — C$20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetELEVATION OUTDOORS — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION — C$15,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY CANADA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Falcon FoundationCentral Okanagan Foun…Traine Charitable Fou…Rotary Club of Kelown…United Way Southern I…The Merrifield Family…Gateway FoundationCourage FoundationNicola Wealth Private…First West FoundationThe Barry Lapointe Fo…Felsen Foundation
Falcon FoundationBC30.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Falcon Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · Traine Charitable Foundation · Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundation · United Way Southern Interior Bc · The Merrifield Family Foundation · Gateway Foundation · Courage Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · First West Foundation · The Barry Lapointe Foundation · Felsen 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 65 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 2024-11-30, 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 135140069:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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