British Columbia · Registered charity
CAPILANO UNIVERSITY
CAPILANO UNIVERSITY (British Columbia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,422,976 to it, the largest being CAPLIANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (C$3,291,802). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CAPILANO UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 220 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 220 teaching institutions nonprofits over $100M, 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.
- Actuashared fundersportfolio match
- Capilano Christian Community Societylocal
- The Leonard 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 46% · 2018 43% · 2019 40% · 2020 36% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 39% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of CAPILANO UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose C$240k → C$403k.
Left out of every figure on this page: C$166k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Capilano University). These are real filings, and they are not money CAPILANO UNIVERSITY raised.
From the CRA filings of CAPILANO UNIVERSITY’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
CAPILANO UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 CAPILANO UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 69% · 2019 77% · 2020 85% · 2021 49% · 2022 60% · 2023 81% — 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
47% of CAPILANO UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
100% of CAPILANO UNIVERSITY'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$55k 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 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Actuashared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Capilano Christian Community SocietylocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- The Leonard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skills for Hope Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chartered Professional Accountants' Education Foundation of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Vancouver 2010 Legacy FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Manitoba Foundation for Sports Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- History & Heroes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Liber Ero Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Rugby Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hillside Baptist ChurchlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- West Vancouver Baptist ChurchlocalBC · 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 CAPILANO UNIVERSITY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 28% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CAPILANO UNIVERSITY
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Questions and answers
- Who funds CAPILANO UNIVERSITY?
- CAPILANO UNIVERSITY (British Columbia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,422,976 to it, the largest being CAPLIANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (C$3,291,802). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPILANO UNIVERSITY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 26 organizations giving C$4,422,976 in grants to CAPILANO UNIVERSITY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPILANO UNIVERSITY?
- CAPLIANO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$3,291,802 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPILANO UNIVERSITY 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 26 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