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LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY

LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 64 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,334,439 to it, the largest being Charles & Eve Chang Foundation (C$355,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$1.0M
Funders on record
64
Grants received
C$2.3M
Net assets
C$285k
34/64 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Lumara Grief and Bereavement Care Society does

Ongoing programs

Lumara Grief and Bereavement Care Society provides counselling support and care for individuals and families who are coping with grief and loss due to illness or death of a loved one through therapeutic camps and programs retreats support groups and education.

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$457k) Expenses 100 (C$488k) Net assets 100 (C$50k)2018 Revenue 123 (C$564k) Expenses 104 (C$506k) Net assets 215 (C$107k)2019 Revenue 141 (C$643k) Expenses 117 (C$570k) Net assets 361 (C$180k)2020 Revenue 168 (C$768k) Expenses 118 (C$577k) Net assets 584 (C$291k)2021 Revenue 183 (C$837k) Expenses 132 (C$644k) Net assets 971 (C$483k)2022 Revenue 166 (C$759k) Expenses 160 (C$782k) Net assets 925 (C$460k)2023 Revenue 183 (C$837k) Expenses 192 (C$935k) Net assets 655 (C$326k)2024 Revenue 229 (C$1.0M) Expenses 223 (C$1.1M) Net assets 573 (C$285k)
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Revenue (229)Expenses (223)Net assets (573)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 2020 to 2021, from C$420k to C$672k (+60%).

C$77k
C$121k
C$205k
C$420k
C$672k
C$691k
C$589k
C$541k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 11% · 2019 12% · 2020 13% · 2021 30% · 2022 35% · 2023 24% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 220 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$31k
’17
C$57k
’18
C$73k
’19
C$191k
’20
C$193k
’21
−C$23k
’22
−C$98k
’23
−C$41k
’24
5.2
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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Listed5676109108
Joined·+5+2+2+5+3+2+3
No longer listed·4131415
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose C$95k → C$378k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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total
C$238k
Cknw Kids' Fundunclassified
C$121k
C$119k
C$80k
C$45k
C$30k
C$25k
C$15k
C$14k
funders
18
26
22
20
20
23
22
24

From the CRA filings of LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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

LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY.

15%
largest funder
42%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 25% · 2019 30% · 2020 29% · 2021 25% · 2022 19% · 2023 19% — 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

33% of LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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

89% of LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE 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$116k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 257 supportive health care nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 257 supportive health care nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government revenue LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY reports

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

FY2024C$234k
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  • 22% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 15%Fundraising 10%

Governance

8
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY?
LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 64 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,334,439 to it, the largest being Charles & Eve Chang Foundation (C$355,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 64 organizations giving C$2,334,439 in grants to LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE SOCIETY?
Charles & Eve Chang Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$355,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUMARA GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT CARE 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 64 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