BEACON UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA

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: 2018 19% · 2019 16% · 2020 30% · 2021 11% · 2022 25% · 2023 3% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose C$77 → C$835.

Left out of every figure on this page: C$75k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Beacon United Church of Canada). These are real filings, and they are not money BEACON UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA raised.

From the CRA filings of BEACON UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA’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

BEACON UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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 UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA.

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 33% · 2019 58% · 2020 77% · 2021 85% · 2022 84% · 2023 86% — 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.

Where its funders are

51% of BEACON UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 1 region.

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$26k 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.