Manitoba · Registered charity
BOOKMATES INC.
BOOKMATES INC. (Manitoba) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$707,369 to it, the largest being THE WINNIPEG FOUNDATION (C$396,720). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOOKMATES INC.'s revenue fell 35% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,075 support of schools and education 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.
- Prairie Spirit United Churchlocal
- Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick Ltd.portfolio match
- The Excellence in Literacy Foundationportfolio 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 43% · 2018 44% · 2019 41% · 2020 56% · 2021 53% · 2022 45% · 2023 34% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of BOOKMATES INC.’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (40% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell C$189k → C$87k.
From the CRA filings of BOOKMATES INC.’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
BOOKMATES INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 BOOKMATES INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 51% · 2019 44% · 2020 53% · 2021 62% · 2022 87% · 2023 42% — 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
45% of BOOKMATES INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
80% of BOOKMATES INC.'s grant income comes from Manitoba funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$3k 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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Prairie Spirit United ChurchlocalMB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick Ltd.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Excellence in Literacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kimberley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Postmedia Network Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Books Over Borders Livres Transfrontièresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Decoda Literacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- British Columbia Courthouse Library Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Times Colonist Literacy Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carleton North Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St John Brebeuf ParishlocalMB · 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 BOOKMATES INC. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 55% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BOOKMATES INC.
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 Manitoba
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BOOKMATES INC.?
- BOOKMATES INC. (Manitoba) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$707,369 to it, the largest being THE WINNIPEG FOUNDATION (C$396,720). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOOKMATES INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$707,369 in grants to BOOKMATES INC., 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOOKMATES INC.?
- THE WINNIPEG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$396,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOOKMATES INC. find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Manitoba.
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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 14 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