British Columbia · Registered charity
ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY
ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 80 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,378,287 to it, the largest being CELTIC CROSS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST (C$202,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Abbotsford Community Foundationlocal
- Prairie Pregnancy Support Centreportfolio match
- Open Door Womens Care Centreportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 5% · 2021 7% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose C$45k → C$207k.
From the CRA filings of ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 31% · 2019 36% · 2020 30% · 2021 18% · 2022 37% · 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
57% of ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
90% of ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY'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$16k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 80 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Abbotsford Community FoundationlocalBC · funds 33 organizations near you
- Prairie Pregnancy Support Centreportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Open Door Womens Care Centreportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abba Canada Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The River Community Church of AbbotsfordlocalBC · funds 6 organizations near you
- Cause We Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Troop Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy Multiplied Canada Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Alberta Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brands for Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropieportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2022 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES 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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY?
- ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 80 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,378,287 to it, the largest being CELTIC CROSS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST (C$202,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 80 organizations giving C$1,378,287 in grants to ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES SOCIETY?
- CELTIC CROSS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with C$202,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOKATE LIFE & EDUCATION SERVICES 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 80 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register