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Nelson, BC · Charitable organization

The Lions Club of Nelson Charitable Trust

Grants given out to local charities and amateur athletic associations including food banks outreach programs arts programs and stroke recovery care.

C$11k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$378k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kootenay Emergency Response Physician AssociationC$3,000
Nelson Community ServicesC$1,500
Columbia Basin Trust for LiteracyC$1,000
Nelson & District Seniors Coordinating SocietyC$1,000
Nelson CARES SocietyC$1,000
Nelson Civic Theatre SocietyC$900
Nelson Electric Tram SocietyC$800
Stroke Recovery Association of BCC$500
Capitol Theatre Restoration SocietyC$500
Nelson Athletic Association 'Runs Like a Mother'C$300
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$65k · 29 repeat orgsC$30k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
33

Total granted

C$65k
C$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+49%

Still filing today

90%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • KE
    Kootenay Emergency Response Physician Association
    3× · 2020–2023 · C$6k · revenue +235%
  • LO
    Lions of Canada Fund of LCIF
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$5k · revenue +370%
  • BL
    BC Lions Society Easter Seals
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$4k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NELSON
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k
  • HA
    HEALTH ARTS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue +19%
  • WK
    WEST KOOTENAY COMMUNITY TEETH SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue -5%

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
Kootenay Society for Community Living

Day programs in nelson & castlegar creton community inclusion life skills supports & recreations. nine residential home in castlegar nelson & grand forks providing 24/7 supports for people with developmental disabilities.

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2
Northern Health Authority

The role of the Authority is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the north region of British Columbia and those referred from outside the region. Northern Health Authority was created…

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3
East Kootenay Foundation for Health

The foundation provides funds to interior health for hospitals clinics long term care homes and community health programs in the east kootenay region to help meet health care equipment and program needs including educational training.

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4
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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5
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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6
Nelson Search and Rescue Society

Nelson search and rescue society keeps a body of trained and police screened voluneers on call for search and rescue or other emergency support work. The society is involved in searches and recoveries at the request of the RCMP Nelson City…

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7
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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8
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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9
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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10
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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11
Kelowna General Hospital Foundation

The KGH Foundation funds facilitates & promotes activities which improve the provision of health and health care to those living within the southern interior of BC and within the referral area of the Kelowna General Hospital (KGH).…

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12
Nelson and Area Friends of the Family Foundation

Financial support provided to or on behalf of families in the west kootenay region to assist with medical expense and medical travel due to serious injury or illness.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kalein Hospice Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is The Capitol Theatre Restoration 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

54 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. 54 of the 67 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
45/54
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 budgetKootenay Emergency Response Physician Association — C$5,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLions of Canada Fund of LCIF — C$4,673 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBC Lions Society Easter Seals — C$4,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWest Kootenay Wonen's Association — C$3,800 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNELSON CIVIC THEATRE SOCIETY — C$3,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNELSON CARES SOCIETY — C$3,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNELSON & DISTRICT MUSEUM ARCHIVES ART GALLERY & HISTORICAL S — C$3,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNelson Community Food Centre Society — C$3,055 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNelson Electric Tramway Society — C$3,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLions BC Hearing Conservation Society — C$2,650 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCapitol Theatre Restoration Society — C$2,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH ARTS SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEST KOOTENAY COMMUNITY TEETH SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKOOTENAY ROMANIAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION CANADA — C$2,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetKOOTEENAY BOUNDARY REGIONAL HOSPITAL & HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$1,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY NELSON COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$1,755 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetLIONS FOUNADTION OF CANADA - DOG GUIDES — C$1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$1,571 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNelson & District Seniors Coordinating Society — C$1,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPROCTOR COMMUNITY SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNelson Community Services — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNELSON FINE ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY — C$1,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAIDS Outreach and Support Society — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSELKIRK COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColumbia Basin Trust for Literacy — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. SAVCOURS PRO-CATHEDREAL ANGLICON CHURCH (NELSON FRIENDS — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKOOTENAY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 8 KOOTENAY LAKE (HUME SCHOOL) — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNELSON FRIENDSHIP OUTREACH CLUBHOUSE — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOOTENAY KIDS SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Baptist Church — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKOOTENAY PERINATEL SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$900 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION — C$900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRAIL FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOURCE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOOTENAY LAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEAL HOUSE SOCIETY-VANCOUVER EASTER SEAL HOUSE — C$700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHIEMER SOIETY OF B C — C$700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY (BC CANCER FOUNDATION) — C$600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES CANADA (BC DIABETES FOUNDATION) — C$600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUBILEE MANOR PLACE FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetADVANCED CORONARY TREATMENT FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStroke Recovery Association of BC — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNELSON MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFORM FOR YOUNG CANADIANS — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHICLATERAL SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF BC — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$300 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.

Osprey Community Foun…The Hamber FoundationNelson Circle Foundat…United Way British Co…West Kootenay Regiona…Bc Government Employe…Kootenay Advocacy Net…Union of Spiritual Co…Le Roi Community Foun…Creston Valley Commun…Vancouver FoundationCentral Okanagan Foun…
Osprey Community FoundationBC31× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Osprey Community Foundation · The Hamber Foundation · Nelson Circle Foundation Trustee M D Berg · United Way British Columbia · West Kootenay Regional Arts Council · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Kootenay Advocacy Network/Task · Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ · Le Roi Community Foundation · Creston Valley Community Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Central Okanagan 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 67 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 2023-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 881115422:2023-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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