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AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY

AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 59 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,540,937 to it, the largest being TRUE DIRECTIONS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$500,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$1.1M
Funders on record
59
Grants received
C$2.5M
Net assets
C$401k
33/59 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Africa Community Technical Service Society does

Ongoing programs

Construction of rural water supply infrastructure in uganda. Training in community water system governance and maintenance. Health sanitation and environmental education. Secondary projects related to education argiculture and health services

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$659k) Expenses 100 (C$824k) Net assets 100 (C$280k)2018 Revenue 88 (C$583k) Expenses 78 (C$646k) Net assets 77 (C$217k)2019 Revenue 100 (C$661k) Expenses 68 (C$562k) Net assets 113 (C$316k)2020 Revenue 105 (C$692k) Expenses 89 (C$736k) Net assets 97 (C$273k)2021 Revenue 127 (C$838k) Expenses 79 (C$654k) Net assets 163 (C$457k)2022 Revenue 156 (C$1.0M) Expenses 100 (C$827k) Net assets 235 (C$658k)2023 Revenue 153 (C$1.0M) Expenses 148 (C$1.2M) Net assets 162 (C$452k)2024 Revenue 167 (C$1.1M) Expenses 140 (C$1.2M) Net assets 143 (C$401k)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (140)Net assets (143)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$278k to C$509k (+83%).

C$294k
C$230k
C$324k
C$278k
C$509k
C$720k
C$508k
C$417k
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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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,313 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$165k
’17
−C$63k
’18
C$99k
’19
−C$43k
’20
C$184k
’21
C$200k
’22
−C$206k
’23
−C$51k
’24
4.2
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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Listed1088999911
Joined·+0+2+2+1+1+0+3
No longer listed·2211101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose C$179k → C$393k.

From the CRA filings of AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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

AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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 AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY.

20%
largest funder
47%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 38% · 2019 36% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 29% · 2023 27% — 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

40% of AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

78% of AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.

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

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’22
’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$21k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government revenue AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY reports

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

FY2023C$8k
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  • 1% of FY2023 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY

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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

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY?
AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 59 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,540,937 to it, the largest being TRUE DIRECTIONS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$500,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 59 organizations giving C$2,540,937 in grants to AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY?
TRUE DIRECTIONS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AFRICA COMMUNITY TECHNICAL SERVICE SOCIETY find more funders?
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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 59 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