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Kelowna, BC · Public foundation

Thomas Foundation

The foundation does not carry out charitable activities directly but distributes funds to qualified donees.

C$378k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$325k
C$10,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMAS GSEA FOUNDATIONC$200,000
FACE THE WORLD FOUNDATIONC$125,000
OPPORTUNITY HOME TREATMENT & RECOVERY CENTREC$25,000
GLOBAL CIVIC POLICY SOCIETYC$10,000
LITTLE WARRIORSC$5,000
ENACTUS CANADAC$5,000
PACIFIC AUTISM FAMILY CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
GREATER VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETYC$3,000
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$980k · 12 repeat orgsC$258k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

C$980k
C$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$160k 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

  • TG
    THOMAS GSEA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$720k · revenue +38% · 97% of their budget
  • RR
    Resurection Recovery Resource Society-Freedom's Door
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$70k · revenue +269%
  • DF
    DOGTOPIA FOUNDATION CANADA
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$55k · revenue +652% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • VH
    VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue +14%
  • CC
    Create Change Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue -66%
  • DV
    DRAYTON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +259%

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
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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2
The George Hull Centre Foundation

The george hull centre foundation supports the children’s mental health activities of the george hull centre for children and families. activities include research evaluation and new program initiatives

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3
The Kelty Patrick Dennehy Foundation

The foundation has led many fundraising activities directed at funding programs and research aimed at positively increasing awareness of issues related to mental health and young people. disbursed funds have created: the kelty mental…

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4
Pacifica Treatment Centre Society

Rehabilitation programs - the society owns and operates the residence and designs rehabilitation programs to help promote recovery from substance dependence.

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5
Vancouver Police Foundation

The vancouver police foundation ('vpf') promotes research education public participation and community awareness of the problems of crime its prevention and the role of the police in helping to build strong vibrant communities. during the…

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6
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation

To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.

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7
Child Development Foundation of British Columbia

Funds promotes and provides leadership in bc in all aspects of child development through research training and development of rehabilitation techniques and equipment. funds facilitates and promotes program such as communication therapy…

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8
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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9
B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation

The foundation provides financial and human resources to charitable not for profit groups focused on community service. the foundation provides grants to qualified donees that provide services in the areas of: social services education and…

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10
Heroic Hearts Project Canada

Provides research and assistance into psychedelic treatment for veterans along with providing education on the merits impact and benefits of psychedelic drug assisted psychotherapy for veterans with mental health disorders resulting from…

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11
Children's Health Foundation

Children's health foundation raises and grants funds to support specialized healthcare research and rehabilitation services and programs for infants children and youth

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12
Coast Foundation Society (1974)

Coast foundation society (1974) provides a variety of community support programs: a. initiates develops and provides programs/housing and services which promote recovery of mental illness; b. provides through aquisition conversion and or…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Home Treatment & Recovery Centre and the most unlike its peers is Nanoose Bay Pentecostal Camp. 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

30 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. 30 of the 31 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)
30/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
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 budgetTHOMAS GSEA FOUNDATION — C$720,000 over 4y, 97% of budgetFACE THE WORLD FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetResurection Recovery Resource Society-Freedom's Door — C$70,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetDOGTOPIA FOUNDATION CANADA — C$55,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetGLOBAL CIVIC POLICY SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetCoast Mental Health Foundation — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOME TREATMENT & RECOVERY CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPOWER TO BE ADVENTURE THERAPY — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC AUTISM FAMILY CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCreate Change Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDRAYTON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBEIL HALOCHEM CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELI'S PLACE OF RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE BAYCREST CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST. PIUS X PARISH — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLITTLE WARRIORS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Canada Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANOOSE BAY PENTECOSTAL CAMP — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIMES COLONIST CHRISTMAS FUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENACTUS CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hospital for Sick Children Foundation — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORWARD HOUSE COMMUNITY SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSociety for Kids at Tennis — C$2,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank Society — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEMS OF MAZATLAN — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetC.H.I.L.D. Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Life of Canada — C$900 over 3y, 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.

The Victoria Foundati…Zlc FoundationFirst West FoundationLohn FoundationBc Government Employe…R. Howard Webster Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…Vancouver FoundationBenefAction FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Telus Employees Chari…Canada Gives
The Victoria FoundationBC8.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Victoria Foundation · Zlc Foundation · First West Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Canada Gives

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 31 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 2024-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 888156668:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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