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VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY

VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,336,171 to it, the largest being THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION (C$343,517). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$2.9M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
C$1.3M
Net assets
C$2k
15/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society does

Ongoing programs

Newcomer Wraparound Support Program: Initiated in 2012 and originally funded by the province of B.C. the program has been federally funded since 2014. It continues to provide specialized settlement services to the most vulnerable newcomers under the NWSP. BC Settlement & Integration Services (BCSIS): Provincially funded since 2018 this program provides orientation information and referrals to community resources including housing healthcare social benefits income tax and legal and immigration-related settlement information to newcomers. Enable Program: Enable program supports vulnerable newcomer children and youth aged 6 to 19 addressing their academic social and emotional needs as they integrate into Canadian society. English as a Second Language (ESL): For more than twenty years ESL continues to offer training programs to newcomers and citizens who are seeking to improve their English language skills and increase their chances of gaining meaningful employment. Pathways to Professions and Trades Entrepreneurship (P2PTE): P2PTE is an employment program for youth newcomers designed to overcome employment barriers in Canada. Resilience BC Hub: provides tailored…

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$1.2M) Expenses 100 (C$1.3M) Net assets 100 (C$142k)2018 Revenue 116 (C$1.4M) Expenses 112 (C$1.5M) Net assets 50 (C$72k)2019 Revenue 127 (C$1.6M) Expenses 125 (C$1.7M) Net assets -28 (C$-39867)2020 Revenue 143 (C$1.8M) Expenses 132 (C$1.8M) Net assets -41 (C$-57727)2021 Revenue 159 (C$2.0M) Expenses 148 (C$2.0M) Net assets -55 (C$-78075)2022 Revenue 230 (C$2.9M) Expenses 210 (C$2.8M) Net assets -39 (C$-56071)2023 Revenue 275 (C$3.4M) Expenses 252 (C$3.4M) Net assets -24 (C$-33540)2024 Revenue 230 (C$2.9M) Expenses 209 (C$2.8M) Net assets 1 (C$2k)
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Revenue (230)Expenses (209)Net assets (1)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from C$533k to C$178k (−67%).

C$533k
C$178k
C$465k
C$533k
C$697k
C$345k
C$368k
C$423k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 72% · 2018 70% · 2019 75% · 2020 82% · 2021 85% · 2022 90% · 2023 91% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 849 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$106k
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−C$70k
’18
−C$110k
’19
−C$11k
’20
−C$20k
’21
C$22k
’22
C$23k
’23
C$35k
’24
0.4
months of
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.

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Listed1098678710
Joined·+1+3+2+3+4+4+3
No longer listed·2442350
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose C$110k → C$160k.

From the CRA filings of VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE 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

VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY.

26%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 33% · 2019 48% · 2020 29% · 2021 32% · 2022 28% · 2023 34% — 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 VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

73% of VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$80k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government revenue VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$2.4M
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  • 85% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Governance

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board members

Questions and answers

Who funds VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY?
VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,336,171 to it, the largest being THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION (C$343,517). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 25 organizations giving C$1,336,171 in grants to VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE SOCIETY?
THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$343,517 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VICTORIA IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTRE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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