British Columbia · Registered charity
BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,500,432 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$2,590,388). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 145 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 145 community resource 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.
- Rotary Club of Victoria - Harbourside Foundationshared funderslocal
- Central City Foundationportfolio match
- The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbiaportfolio 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: 2017 84% · 2018 83% · 2019 82% · 2020 80% · 2021 60% · 2022 58% · 2023 58% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income rose C$146k → C$833k.
From the CRA filings of BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 60% · 2019 62% · 2020 66% · 2021 54% · 2022 63% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
98% of BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION'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$12k 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 27 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rotary Club of Victoria - Harbourside Foundationshared funderslocalBC · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 11 organizations near you
- Central City Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Creston Valley Gleaners Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cridge Centre for the Familyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peace Arch Hospital and Community Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sara Spencer FoundationlocalBC · funds 9 organizations near you
- Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundationshared funderslocalBC · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 15 organizations near you
- Robert & Devi Jawl FoundationlocalBC · funds 7 organizations near you
- The Allegra Singers SocietylocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Times Colonist Christmas Fund Societyshared funderslocalBC · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 6 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 BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 57% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION?
- BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,500,432 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$2,590,388). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 27 organizations giving C$4,500,432 in grants to BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION?
- UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA is the largest funder on record, with C$2,590,388 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 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 27 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