British Columbia · Registered charity
ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (British Columbia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$733,347 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$434,208). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$1.9M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- C$733k
- Net assets
- C$23k
What Access Pro Bono Society of British Columbia does
Ongoing programs
On april 1 2010 Access Pro Bono Society of British Columbia (the 'society') was formed to assume the activities formerly carried out by pro bono law of british columbia and the western canada association to access justice. The society's purpose is to promote access to justice in b.c. By providing and fostering quality pro bono legal services for people and non-profit organizations of limited means. The society is a not-for -profit organization and registered charity incorporated under the british columbia societies act. The society is exempt from income taxes.
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 2021 to 2022, from C$1.1M to C$1.7M (+57%).
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 18% · 2018 16% · 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 46% · 2022 38% · 2023 16% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (4% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose C$47k → C$195k.
From the CRA filings of ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. 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
ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 60% · 2019 87% · 2020 82% · 2021 96% · 2022 49% · 2023 31% — 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
44% of ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$10k 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
ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA has grown faster than half 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 ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 11% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA?
- ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (British Columbia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$733,347 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$434,208). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 18 organizations giving C$733,347 in grants to ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$434,208 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCESS PRO BONO SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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 18 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