British Columbia · Registered charity
BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$386,435 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$301,427). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$1.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- C$386k
- Net assets
- C$429k
What Better Environmentally Sound Transportation Association does
Ongoing programs
The bike valet : encouraging the use of sustainable transportation alternatives through the provision of coat-check style bicycle parking services at events and festivals. Living streets:providing education and encouragement for walking activities in communities seniors transportation : working with senior-serving agencies in assessing the transportation needs of alder and planning services with a view to 'hanging up the keys' and the end of driving.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from C$151k to C$282k (+86%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 22% · 2019 11% · 2020 75% · 2021 45% · 2022 3% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose C$3k → C$119k.
From the CRA filings of BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 46% · 2019 63% · 2020 41% · 2021 92% · 2022 93% · 2023 85% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
30% of BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$24k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 7% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
31% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION?
- BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$386,435 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$301,427). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$386,435 in grants to BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$301,427 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register