British Columbia · Registered charity
The Starfish Environmental Society
The Starfish Environmental Society (British Columbia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$805,288 to it, the largest being THE LAWSON FOUNDATION (C$510,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$726k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- C$805k
- Net assets
- C$127k
What The Starfish Environmental Society does
Ongoing programs
The Starfish Environmental Society continued to organize and cary on educational seminars and events to increase the public’s understanding of the environment and its importance. We also provided awards to youth and young adults who have demonstrated a commitment to creating positive environmental change.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from C$105k to C$228k (+118%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of The Starfish Environmental Society’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (25% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose C$55k → C$255k.
From the CRA filings of The Starfish Environmental Society’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
The Starfish Environmental Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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 The Starfish Environmental Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2021 67% · 2022 89% · 2023 51% — 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
50% of The Starfish Environmental Society'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
The Starfish Environmental Society draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 4 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Starfish Environmental Society runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 184 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government revenue The Starfish Environmental Society reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 3% of FY2021 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like The Starfish Environmental Society
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Starfish Environmental Society?
- The Starfish Environmental Society (British Columbia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$805,288 to it, the largest being THE LAWSON FOUNDATION (C$510,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Starfish Environmental Society have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 16 organizations giving C$805,288 in grants to The Starfish Environmental Society, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Starfish Environmental Society?
- THE LAWSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$510,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Starfish Environmental Society 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 16 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