Vernon, BC · Private foundation
The Steele Family Foundation
The purpose of the charity is to gift funds earned through investments held by the charity to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the income tax act.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NONA - NORTH OKANAGAN NEUROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION | C$7,000 |
| CMHA - CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | C$7,000 |
| NOYFSS - NORTH OKANAGAN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | C$7,000 |
| PEOPLE PLACE SOCIETY | C$7,000 |
| KIDSPORT GREATER VERNON | C$7,000 |
| NORTH OKANAGAN STARFISH PROGRAM | C$5,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.
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
- UOUBC OKANAGAN6× · 2017–2022 · C$56k · revenue +55%
- SPStarfisk Pack - Okanagan Boys & Girls Club7× · 2017–2023 · C$47k · revenue +81%
- PPPeople Place8× · 2017–2024 · C$45k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- NSNational Sport Trust Fundone grant, 2018 · C$10k
- CDCOMMUNITY DENTAL ACCESSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +46%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
The okanagan village housing society provides affordable housing in the north okanagan for individuals and families with low to moderate incomes.
Child care resource and referral program family resource program nourish families playful healing drop in childcare
Arts school offering courses in the areas of visual culinary & performing arts
The society provides various services to Aboriginal people living off reserve (urban indigenous people) Referral services Counselling services Employment programs Education programs Child & Family Support programs Drug & Alcohol programs…
Emergency Housing and services Second stage housing Outreach support PEACE Program Thrift Store Voucher Program Education and Prevention
Family Place: Strong start Life after birth Pregnancy outreach program Indigenous Family Support. Childcare centers: Early Care and Learning Center Silver King Childcare Center Child Care Resource and Referral. Pediatric Therapy (physical…
The Association provides healthy support for children and families family development support and therapeutic counselling. The support and counselling is for individuals and in group environments.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Okanagan Youth and Family Services Society and the most unlike its peers is People Place Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UBC OKANAGAN ↗
- Who funds Starfisk Pack - Okanagan Boys & Girls Club ↗
- Who funds People Place ↗
- Who funds NOYFSS - NORTH OKANAGAN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Okanagan College ↗
- Who funds CMHA - CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NONA ↗
- Who funds NORTH OKANAGAN STARFISH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ACCESS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the North Okanagan · Foord Family Foundation · Commonage Legacy Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Community Foundations of Canada · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · BenefAction Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation
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.