Nelson, BC · Charitable organization
West Kootenay Regional Arts Council
Act as a resource centre for the regional arts community; promote and amplify the work of Kootenay artists and cultural organizations through social media our monthly newsletter and online searchable event listings; publish and distribute ARTiculate magazine highlighting regional arts culture and heritage; facilitate workshops and…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k34 grants · C$146k
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Art Starts in Schools | C$17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$14,400 |
| Kimberley Arts Council / Centre 64 Society | C$11,934 |
| Fernie and District Arts Council | C$11,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$10,000 |
| Slocan Lake Arts Council | C$9,650 |
| SQx Danza (dba SQx Dance Company) | C$9,520 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$9,400 |
| Trail and District Arts Council | C$9,000 |
| Renascence Arts and Sustainability Society | C$7,748 |
| Revelstoke Arts Council | C$7,600 |
| Rural Alternatives Research & Training Society | C$7,217 |
| Nelson Fine Arts Centre Society (DBA Oxygen Art Centre) | C$7,168 |
| Lardeau Valley Historical Society | C$7,003 |
| Kootenay Gallery of Art History and Science Society | C$6,955 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 45% of grant dollars (C$306k). The 55% that went abroad (C$368k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 55% of all-years giving (C$368k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 22 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$119k 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
- FDFernie & District Arts Council2× · 2023–2024 · C$38k · revenue +9%
- ASArt Starts in School2× · 2023–2024 · C$34k · revenue +36%
- LCLangham Cultural Society2× · 2023–2024 · C$20k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · C$29k
- RCROSSLAND COUNCIL FOR ARTS AND CULTUREone grant, 2023 · C$16k
- NANELSON AND DISTRICT ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2023 · C$15k
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.
We provide exhibitions of contemporary and historical fine art and related public programming.
Museums arts and craft galleries; cultural centres and associations; cultural sponsorships
Public art gallery public and educational programming
Exhibits workshops giftshop
The Shuswap District Arts Council (SDAC) operates the Salmon Arm Arts Centre and Gallery which hosts year round public art exhibitions and includes artists workspace the community art collection and our admin offices. SDAC provides…
Kirkland lake arts council aims to promote and encourage the arts in kirkland lake and area. the council provided concerts plays and other cultural events. during fiscal 2024 the council presented six performances.
Act as a resource centre for the regional arts community; promote and amplify the work of Kootenay artists and cultural organizations through social media our monthly newsletter and online searchable event listings; publish and distribute…
Ongoing public access to art exhibits and art fairs. solo art exhibitions and weekly art fairs.
Art programs and exhibitions
Gallery Programs Ongoing Art Classes Musical Theatres for Youth Concert Series International Online Galleries Community Events
Cultural activites and promotion of the arts
Pacific rim summer festival cultural heritage festival missoula children's theatre artsplash show and exhibition youth & adult workshops battle of the bands monthly member shows and receptions
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key City Theatre Society and the most unlike its peers is The Rossland Light Opera Players. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
36 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. 36 of the 77 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 Nelson Fine Arts Centre Society ↗
- Who funds Fernie & District Arts Council ↗
- Who funds Art Starts in School ↗
- Who funds Langham Cultural Society ↗
- Who funds Nelson Civic Theatre Society ↗
- Who funds Nelson and District Museum Archives Gallery and Historical ↗
- Who funds Kimberley Arts Council / Centre 64 Society ↗
- Who funds Slocan Lake Arts Council ↗
- Who funds Cranbrook & District Arts Council ↗
- Who funds Fernie & District Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Valhalla Fine Arts Society ↗
- Who funds Rural Alternatives Research & Training Society ↗
- Who funds Kootenay Gallery of Art History and Science Society ↗
- Who funds SQx Danza (dba SQx Dance Company) ↗
- Who funds Revelstoke Arts Council ↗
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: Osprey Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies · The Council for Business and the Arts in Canada · Vancouver Foundation · The Lions Club of Nelson Charitable Trust · Community Foundations of Canada · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way British Columbia · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada
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.