British Columbia · Registered charity
BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY
BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,308,726 to it, the largest being WALSH FOUNDATION (C$365,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 947 core health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 947 core health care 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.
- Ames Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Loyal Protestant Associationshared fundersportfolio match
- Youth With a Mission Foundationlocal
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 13% · 2018 10% · 2019 8% · 2020 9% · 2021 14% · 2022 10% · 2023 11% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose C$40k → C$172k.
From the CRA filings of BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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 BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 39% · 2019 31% · 2020 31% · 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 2023 35% — 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
28% of BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
77% of BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY'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$11k 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 42 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ames Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Loyal Protestant Associationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Youth With a Mission FoundationlocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- British Columbia Rehabilitation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Port Moody Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vancouver Police FoundationlocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Reality Church of Metro Vancouver SocietylocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- King of Kings Fellowship (Lethbridge)localAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Youth With a Mission (Bc) SocietylocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Global Great Commission Center (Canada)localON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Spanish Christian FellowshiplocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Abundant Life Community ChurchlocalON · 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 BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 49% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY?
- BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,308,726 to it, the largest being WALSH FOUNDATION (C$365,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 42 organizations giving C$1,308,726 in grants to BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY?
- WALSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$365,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY 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 42 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