British Columbia · Registered charity
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER) (British Columbia) receives grants from 123 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$11,358,128 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY (C$1,946,688). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$757M
- Funders on record
- 123
- Grants received
- C$11M
- Net assets
- C$75M
What The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver) does
Ongoing programs
The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver) is to enable students to reach their intellectual social aesthetic and physical potential in challenging and stimulating settings which reflect the worth of each individual and promote mutual respect cooperation and social responsibility. The majority of our funding is received through provincial government. We also receive donations for scholarships bursaries and other education-related purposes.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from C$867M to C$999M (+15%).
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 87% · 2018 85% · 2019 84% · 2020 87% · 2021 89% · 2022 87% · 2023 87% · 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% 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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 46 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose C$1.3M → C$1.6M.
From the CRA filings of THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 123 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
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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 THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 17% · 2019 16% · 2020 17% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 31% — 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
41% of THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
76% of THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)'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$50k 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.
Against its field
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER) is better cushioned than half of the 220 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 220 teaching institutions nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government revenue THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 87% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)?
- THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER) (British Columbia) receives grants from 123 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$11,358,128 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY (C$1,946,688). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 123 organizations giving C$11,358,128 in grants to THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER), 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER)?
- VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with C$1,946,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 39 (VANCOUVER) 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 123 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register