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Kelowna, BC · Private foundation

The Great Big Red Barn Foundation

C$638k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$185k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k14 grants · C$295k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$320k
C$15,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$185,000
KARIS SUPPORT SOCIETYC$80,000
MARY'S MEALS CANADAC$55,000
KINBRACE COMMUNITY SOCIETYC$40,000
GREATER VANCOUVER YOUTH UNLIMITEDC$40,000
HOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCYC$35,000
COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$35,000
ARTISAN CHURCHC$25,000
STRATHCONA VINEYARD CHURCHC$25,000
ALLY GLOBAL FOUNDATIONC$15,000
MISSIONAL LABS SOCIETYC$15,000
HOPE RENEWS INC.C$12,500
THRIVE FOR GOODC$12,500
METRO COMMUNITYC$10,000
SAUTI MOJAC$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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.5M · 18 repeat orgsC$156k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

C$1.5M
C$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$88k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • KS
    KARIS SUPPORT SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$320k · revenue +37%
  • KG
    KELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$195k · revenue +28%
  • MM
    MARY'S MEALS CANADA
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$140k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • KG
    KELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +10%
  • SJ
    ST. JAMES PARISH OF VANCOUVER
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +13%
  • WM
    WARD MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -2%

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
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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2
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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3
Anhart Community Housing Society

Anhart Community Housing Society is a humanitarian organization that provides supportive housing to persons of low income and/or who are at risk to homelessness because of mental and physical health concerns addictions and concurrent…

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4
Help and Hope for Families Society

Help & hope for families society is dedicated to end violence through awareness and empowerment. we serve the yukon and northern bc communities and all women and children in need in transient. we provides emergency shelter for all women…

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5
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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6
Cowichan Women Against Violence Society

Cwav society provides client-centered safety shelter counselling and advocacy in support of individual family and community well-being. ongoing programs include somenos transition house women's night shelter homelessness prevention program…

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7
Sakeenah Canada

Women's Transitional Homes Mental Health Foster Care The People's Market (food program). The organizations purpose is to assist those affected by spousal abuse through counselling and treatment programs. It also provides affordable and…

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8
Yukon Womens Transition Home Society

24 hour 15 bed shelter for women and children fleeing violence 10 unit affordable second stage housing for up to 18 months with possibility of extension. Support to women through referrals advocacy and peer counselling Assist and advocate…

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9
Rebuild Hope

We continued to provide shelter clothing food and educational support for children living in poverty in Kenya. Children continued to access resources and mentorship support to enable them to succeed and excel in their education. Families…

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10
Habitat for Humanity Okanagan Society

Habitat for Humanity Okanagan Society generates income from sales of donated goods and collects donations and fundraises to build homes that are sold for market value to partnering families with a zero down payment.

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11
Boundary Women's Coalition

Boundary Women's Coalition operates a Transition House for women (and their children) who are at risk of or have experienced violence a Second Stage Housing Program for women (and their children) who have left abusive relationships and are…

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12
'Ksan House Society

Terrace emergency shelter: short term shelter to the homeless terrace transition house: short term shelter to women and children fleeing abuse sexual assault centre: counseling and public awareness events stop violence against women:…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Mental Health Association Kelowna and District Branch and the most unlike its peers is Shawnigan Lake School Foundation. 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

32 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKARIS SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$320,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetKELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$195,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMARY'S MEALS CANADA — C$140,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetKINBRACE COMMUNITY SOCIETY — C$135,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION - KELOWNA — C$113,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER YOUTH UNLIMITED — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY — C$95,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION CANADA — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE RENEWS INC. — C$37,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetARTISAN CHURCH — C$35,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTRATHCONA VINEYARD CHURCH — C$35,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetALLY GLOBAL FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCREATOR'S ART CENTRE SOCIETY — C$32,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSAUTI MOJA — C$27,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetKELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE FOR GOOD — C$17,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMISSIONAL LABS SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY — C$13,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKELOWNA WOMENS SHELTER — C$13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST. JAMES PARISH OF VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO COMMUNITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWARD MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE WAY CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH OKANAGAN WOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LOWER SIMILKAMEEN COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMESTART FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE BC AND YUKON — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Literacy Kelowna Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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…United Way Southern I…Central Okanagan Foun…United Way British Co…First West FoundationThe Merrifield Family…Falcon FoundationRaymond James Canada …Givewise Foundation C…Courage FoundationBc Government Employe…Rotary Club of Kelown…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC13.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way Southern Interior Bc · Central Okanagan Foundation · United Way British Columbia · First West Foundation · The Merrifield Family Foundation · Falcon Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Givewise Foundation Canada · Courage Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Rotary Club of Kelowna 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 32 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 833592108:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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