British Columbia · Registered charity
BC PARKS FOUNDATION
BC PARKS FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 44 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$97,960,436 to it, the largest being WILSON 5 FOUNDATION (C$79,000,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BC PARKS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 362 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 362 foundations nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Schad Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Sydney J. Risk Foundationlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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: 2018 100% · 2019 68% · 2020 45% · 2021 9% · 2022 5% · 2023 9% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of BC PARKS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose C$2.0M → C$2.9M.
From the CRA filings of BC PARKS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
BC PARKS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 BC PARKS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 74% · 2020 35% · 2021 65% · 2022 100% · 2023 48% — 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
48% of BC PARKS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
88% of BC PARKS FOUNDATION'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$900k 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 44 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Schad Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sydney J. Risk FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raindrop Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gencon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pena Family FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt FoundationlocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Longhedge FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Beech FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
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 BC PARKS FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 38% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BC PARKS FOUNDATION
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BC PARKS FOUNDATION?
- BC PARKS FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 44 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$97,960,436 to it, the largest being WILSON 5 FOUNDATION (C$79,000,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BC PARKS FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 44 organizations giving C$97,960,436 in grants to BC PARKS FOUNDATION, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BC PARKS FOUNDATION?
- WILSON 5 FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$79,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BC PARKS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 44 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