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Kelowna, BC · Public foundation

The Barry Lapointe Foundation

Donation of funds to loca provincial and national charitable organizations that provide educational cultural social and health related services.

C$326k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$260k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$50k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$260k
C$2,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMOX VALLEY AIRFORCE MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONC$260,000
KELOWNA COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETYC$25,000
COPS FOR KIDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$15,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA AVIATION COUNCILC$10,000
223 RED LION SQUADRON COMMITTEEC$6,000
CHAMBER MUSIC KELOWNA SOCIETYC$2,500
YMCA SOUTHERN INTERIOR BC ASSOCIATIONC$2,000
KELOWNA GOSPEL MISSIONC$2,000
HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF BC AND YUKONC$1,735
EASTER SEALS ONTARIOC$1,000
THE BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS SOCIETYC$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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$102k · 22 repeat orgsC$335k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
28

Total granted

C$102k
C$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$299k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • KC
    KELOWNA COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$29k · revenue +21%
  • KC
    KIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA
    2× · 2017–2023 · C$10k · revenue +31%
  • CO
    CENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOODBANK SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$9k · revenue +314%

Funded once

  • AC
    AIR CADET LEAGUE OF CANADA 243 OGOPOGO SQUAUDRON
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +7%
  • KC
    KINSMEN CLUB OF STAMPEDE CITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +44%
  • HW
    HELICOPTERS WITHOUT BORDERSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue +88%

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 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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2
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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3
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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4
Ymca Bc Foundation

The Foundation is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community. We do this by providing financial support to nurture the potential of children teens and young adults; promote healthy living; and foster social…

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5
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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6
Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta

The Kids with Cancer Society offers programming to assist families in the following areas: Support - Provides the necessary tools to help families cope for the demands of the treatment and minimize family disruption and related stress.…

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7
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Society Branch

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention and consultation services. The Centre investigates and evaluates the occurrence…

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8
Ymca Bc

'We are a charity dedicated to building healthy communities by fostering a sense of belonging for all. By creating safe and welcoming spaces that serve people of all ages backgrounds and abilities the YMCA BC is committed to ensuring…

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9
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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10
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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11
Canuck Place Children's Hospice

Canuck Place Children’s Hospice is British Columbia and the Yukon’s pediatric palliative care program. Over 920 children living with life-threatening illnesses and families from five provincial health regions receive Canuck Place inpatient…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southern Interior Bc Association and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Education of School District No. 23 (Central Okanagan). 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

56 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. 56 of the 59 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
41/56
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKELOWNA COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY — C$29,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA AVIATION COUNCIL — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAIR CADET LEAGUE OF CANADA 243 OGOPOGO SQUAUDRON — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOODBANK SOCIETY — C$9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDRY KELOWNA — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget223 RED LION SQUADRON COMMITTEE — C$6,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO AN — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE OF KELOWNA SOCIETY — C$5,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetKINSMEN CLUB OF STAMPEDE CITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HALTON & HAMILTON — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA SOUTHERN INTERIOR BC ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN HOSPICE ASSOCIATION — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICTNO23 (CENTRAL OKANAGAN) — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC KELOWNA SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKELOWNA WOMAN'S SHELTER — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELICOPTERS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKANAGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF BC AND YUKON — C$1,735 over 1y, 17% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT TOMORROW FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT INSTITUTE — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY-SOUTH OKANAGAN CHAPTER — C$1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF BC — C$1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY OF BC — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF BC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS ONTARIO — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD4KIDS HAMILTON — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LITERACY KELOWNA SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLAGARY FOOD BANK — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA CANCER SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN OKANAGAN — C$500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE KIDS ABILITY FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetBRAIN TRUST CANADA ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN LEGION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS OF NELSON DIOCESE — 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.

Central Okanagan Foun…United Way Southern I…First West FoundationRotary Club of Kelown…Kelowna Professional …Nicola Wealth Private…Sonrise FoundationCentral Okanagan Comm…Falcon FoundationRaymond James Canada …Traine Charitable Fou…Bc Government Employe…
Central Okanagan FoundationBC20.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Okanagan Foundation · United Way Southern Interior Bc · First West Foundation · Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundation · Kelowna Professional Firefighters Charitable Society · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Sonrise Foundation · Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society · Falcon Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Traine Charitable Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust

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 59 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 869795807:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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