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Kelowna, BC · Private foundation

The Henry and Gertrude Sawatzky Family Foundation Inc.

Contributions to charities to carry out their charitable purposes

C$237k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$72k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$50k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$182k
C$50,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KELOWNA CHRISTIAN CENTER SOCIETYC$71,500
KELOWNA GOSPEL MISSIONC$60,000
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE OF KELOWNAC$50,000
METRO COMMUNITY CHURCHC$25,000
FREEDOM'S DOORC$25,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETYC$5,500
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 9 repeat orgsC$226k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • KC
    KELOWNA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$315k · revenue +66%
  • KG
    KELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$275k · revenue +92%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE OF KELOWNA
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$250k · revenue ×65

Funded once

  • KT
    KELOWNA TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · C$150k · revenue +11%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE OF KELOWNA
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY SOUTHERN INTERIOR BC
    one grant, 2019 · C$15k · revenue +820%

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
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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2
Inn From the Cold - Kelowna
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3
Okanagan Halfway House Society

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

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4
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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5
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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6
Reach Out Counselling & Support Services Society

Clinical counselling and support for youth aged 13 to 25 families and parents living in kelowna west kelowna and lake country. counselling available on a sliding scale payment system for those marginalized within the community. support…

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7
Kelowna Art Gallery Association

We provide exhibitions of contemporary and historical fine art and related public programming.

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8
The House Church Kelowna

The House is more than a community centre—it's a vibrant faith-based third space where people from all walks of life come to connect grow and find belonging. Each week we host a variety of gatherings and spiritual services designed to…

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9
First Baptist Church Kelowna

Weekly worship services; weekly training for men women and children; weekly youth outreach; pastoral care and counselling; outreach to addction groups.

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10
Kootenay Career Development Society

o BC Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction: WorkBC Contracts o Province of British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training (now Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills): Retail Trades…

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11
Kelowna Museums Society

Providing the public with educational exhibitions and programs that foster personal participation stimulate curiosity and engage the senses with the cultures histories and possibilities of the okanagan region

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12
Kootenay Employment Services Society

1. services to job seekers including employment counseling job-seeker resource centre assessments funds for skills training small business development programming wage subsidies group employability and life-skills training work placement…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kelowna Christian Center Society and the most unlike its peers is Resurrection Recovery Resource 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

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. 12 of the 13 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKELOWNA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$315,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetKELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION — C$275,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE OF KELOWNA — C$250,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetKELOWNA CHRISTIAN CENTER SOCIETY — C$151,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKELOWNA TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH — C$150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFREEDOM'S DOOR — C$125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMETRO COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$125,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetKELOWNA FOUNDATION FOR HOPE AND SOCIAL INNOVATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY — C$16,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetUNITED WAY SOUTHERN INTERIOR BC — C$15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetKGHFOUNDATION — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE OUTREACH — C$11,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

Traine Charitable Fou…Sonrise FoundationCourage FoundationFelsen FoundationThe Calgary FoundationGateway FoundationKelowna Trinity Bapti…Evangel Church of Kel…Rotary Club of Kelown…Falcon FoundationCentral Okanagan Foun…First West Foundation
Traine Charitable FoundationBC13.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Traine Charitable Foundation · Sonrise Foundation · Courage Foundation · Felsen Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Gateway Foundation · Kelowna Trinity Baptist Church · Evangel Church of Kelowna · Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundation · Falcon Foundation · Central Okanagan Foundation · First West 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 13 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 826889636:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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