British Columbia · Registered charity
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY (British Columbia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$258,619 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$42,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Queen Margarets School 6132localportfolio match
- Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Islandshared fundersportfolio match
- Seedlings Foundationshared fundersportfolio 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 25% · 2018 39% · 2019 48% · 2020 66% · 2021 52% · 2022 41% · 2023 52% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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 broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose C$16k → C$48k.
From the CRA filings of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 88% · 2019 74% · 2020 38% · 2021 75% · 2022 30% · 2023 31% — 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
55% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
62% of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY'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$5k 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.
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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Queen Margarets School 6132localportfolio matchBC · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Islandshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Seedlings Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ames Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- St Andrews Presbyterian ChurchlocalBC · funds 10 organizations near you
- The Bbbsc Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Amir and Yasmin Virani Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chris-Spencer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foord Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spencercreo Finca Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cowichan Spiritualist Church of Healing and Light SocietylocalBC · funds 7 organizations near you
- Cowichan Valley Monthly Meeting Religious Society of FriendslocalBC · 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 75% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY?
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY (British Columbia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$258,619 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$42,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 19 organizations giving C$258,619 in grants to BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE COWICHAN VALLEY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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