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Kelowna, BC · Private foundation

The Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundation

Provide grants to qualified donees representing a broad cross section of charities within our community including the areas of health arts and culture emergency services and other organizations that provide services to people of need.

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$313k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$238k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$260k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$823k
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERIOR HEALTH AUTHORITYC$312,719
CITY OF ENDERBYC$260,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$250,000
BC PARKS FOUNDATIONC$150,000
OKANAGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBC$60,000
RESURRECTIONS RECOVERY SOCIETYC$50,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.23 CENTRAL PROGRAMS & SERVICESC$35,000
CHERRYVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD AND RESOURCE SOCIETYC$35,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$27,600
NORTH OKANAGAN VALLEY GLEANERS SOCIETYC$25,000
PROJECT LITERACY KELOWNA SOCIETYC$25,000
CENTRAL OKANAGAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIAC HEALTHC$25,000
THE BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICESC$20,000
OKANAGAN HUMANE SOCIETYC$15,000
FOREST ENHANCEMENT 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.5M · 31 repeat orgsC$701k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
18

Total granted

C$5.5M
C$416k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+48%

Still filing today

94%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$286k 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +55%
  • KG
    KELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$785k · revenue +101%
  • IH
    INTERIOR HEALTH AUTHORITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$771k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    one grant, 2022 · C$200k
  • AS
    ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue -74%
  • CO
    CITY OF WEST KELOWNA
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k

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
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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2
Okanagan Halfway House Society

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

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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
Central Okanagan Crime Stoppers Society

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

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5
Central Okanagan Science Opportunities for Kids Society
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6
Central Okanagan Emergency Shelter Society

Emergency Housing and services Second stage housing Outreach support PEACE Program Thrift Store Voucher Program Education and Prevention

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7
Okanagan Gleaners

Volunteer organization that processes dired fruit and vegetables and prepares soup mix that is provided to other canadian registered charities for distribution to people in third world countries.

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8
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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9
Okanagan Kids Care Fund Society
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10
South Okanagan Victim Assistance Society
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11
Okanagan Central Small Dog Rescue Society

We rescue stray abandoned and unwanted dogs. we provide veterinary care to rescued dogs and safe interim housing until dogs are adopted. we spay/neuter all rescued dogs. we adopt our rescued dogs to carefully screened homes. we attend…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Okanagan Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shelters International Disaster Response 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 53 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$1,780,036 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$785,107 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetINTERIOR HEALTH AUTHORITY — C$770,929 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOKANAGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$397,700 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetOkanagan Boys and Girls Clubs — C$251,005 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBC PARKS FOUNDATION — C$225,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN FOUNDATION — C$153,600 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN ASSOCIATION FOR CARDIAC HEALTH — C$147,500 over 8y, 12% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 23 CENTRAL PROGRAMS & SERVICES — C$127,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LITERACY KELOWNA SOCIETY — C$115,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$102,600 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOODBANK SOCIETY — C$87,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHERRYVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD AND RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetRESURRECTIONS RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$65,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN VALLEY GLEANERS SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNOW CANADA SOCIETY — C$42,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOKANAGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — C$37,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTH OKANANGAN REHABILITATION CENTRE FOR OWLS — C$35,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetTHE BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOKANAGAN FRUIT TREE PROJECT SOCIETY — C$27,500 over 3y, 38% of budgetFRIENDS OF FINTRY PROVINCIAL PARK — C$25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF KELOWNA FOUNDATION — C$20,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetWhite Valley Community Resource Centre — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BC — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOKANAGAN SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$18,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHands in Service Canada — C$15,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetYMCA OF OKANAGAN ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATHLETICS FOR KIDS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (BC) SOC — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY KELOWNA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKELOWNA COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSHELTERS INTERNATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 1y, 29% of budgetDISASTER AID CANADA — C$5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSENIORS OUTREACH SERVICES SOCIETY — C$5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetShoeBank Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHOPE FOR THE NATIONS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN REGION NUTRITION SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPAWS IT FORWARD DOG RESCUE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKELOWNA TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH LEGACY FOUNDATION — C$4,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECT COUNSELLING & THERAPY SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPERA KELOWNA SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL SOCIETY OF KELOWNA — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRESTOR INTERNATIONAL INC. — C$1,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA CHORAL FEDERATION — C$1,000 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.

Central Okanagan Foun…Rotary Club of Kelown…United Way Southern I…Falcon FoundationCommunity Foundation …First West FoundationTraine Charitable Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Sonrise FoundationCentral Okanagan Comm…Community Foundation …Kelowna General Hospi…
Central Okanagan FoundationBC29.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Okanagan Foundation · Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundation · United Way Southern Interior Bc · Falcon Foundation · Community Foundation of the North Okanagan · First West Foundation · Traine Charitable Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Sonrise Foundation · Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society · Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen · Kelowna General Hospital 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 53 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 825209612:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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