British Columbia · Registered charity
ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING)
ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING) (British Columbia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$418,735 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$108,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$997k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- C$419k
- Net assets
- C$1.7M
What Island Arts Centre Society (Artspring) does
Ongoing programs
Island arts centre society owns and operates a community arts centre on salt spring island bc. In carrying out its mandate 'artspring' is made available to the community sponsors community events and presents education and entertainment activities to support the advancement of the performing visual and creative arts and crafts on salt spring island. To build operate maintain and promote artspring as a facility comprised of a theatre gallery display space and workshop space for those engaged in the performing visual and creative arts and crafts as well as for other groups and individuals en to develop and execute public education to support the performing visual and creative arts and crafts. To bring high quality british columbian canadian and international performing artists to salt spring audiences by presenting music dance theatre and other professional performances.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
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$2.7M to C$2.0M (−27%).
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: 2017 24% · 2018 25% · 2019 22% · 2020 36% · 2021 53% · 2022 37% · 2023 8% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose C$12k → C$103k.
From the CRA filings of ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING)’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
ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING) 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 ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 52% · 2019 70% · 2020 54% · 2021 33% · 2022 67% · 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
71% of ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
70% of ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING)'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$168k 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.
Against its field
ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING) has grown faster than half of the 1,067 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government revenue ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 15% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING)
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 ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING)?
- ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING) (British Columbia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$418,735 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$108,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$418,735 in grants to ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING), 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING)?
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$108,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ISLAND ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY (ARTSPRING) 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 13 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