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CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY

CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$71,807 to it, the largest being THE PRINCE GEORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$69,805). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$717k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
C$72k
Grants received
C$1.9M
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$404k) Expenses 100 (C$394k) Net assets 100 (C$1.9M)2018 Revenue 102 (C$410k) Expenses 96 (C$379k) Net assets 102 (C$2.0M)2019 Revenue 123 (C$498k) Expenses 131 (C$517k) Net assets 101 (C$2.0M)2020 Revenue 133 (C$536k) Expenses 111 (C$436k) Net assets 104 (C$2.0M)2021 Revenue 144 (C$582k) Expenses 128 (C$505k) Net assets 109 (C$2.1M)2022 Revenue 130 (C$525k) Expenses 154 (C$607k) Net assets 105 (C$2.0M)2023 Revenue 148 (C$599k) Expenses 177 (C$697k) Net assets 100 (C$1.9M)2024 Revenue 178 (C$717k) Expenses 180 (C$710k) Net assets 100 (C$1.9M)
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Revenue (178)Expenses (180)Net assets (100)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 47% · 2018 48% · 2019 61% · 2020 70% · 2021 52% · 2022 39% · 2023 36% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$10k
’17
C$32k
’18
−C$19k
’19
C$100k
’20
C$77k
’21
−C$82k
’22
−C$98k
’23
C$7k
’24
4.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell C$7k → C$3k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Abundance Canadaunclassified
C$700
PayPal Giving Fund Canadaunclassified
C$302
funders
1
2
3
1
2
2
2
1

From the CRA filings of CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY’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

CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.

Where its funders are

97% of CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’22
’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$70k 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$282k
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  • 39% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM 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

British Columbia Forest Museum78%West Coast Railway Association76%The British Columbia Society of Model Engineers76%Cortes Island Museum and Archives Society75%The Cranbrook Archives Museum and Landmark Society75%Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society74%Saanich Historical Artifacts Society74%The Maritime Museum of British Columbia Society74%

Nationally

British Columbia Forest Museum78%West Coast Railway Association76%The British Columbia Society of Model Engineers76%Cortes Island Museum and Archives Society75%The Cranbrook Archives Museum and Landmark Society75%Saskatchewan Railroad Historical Association Inc.75%Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society74%Saanich Historical Artifacts Society74%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY?
CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$71,807 to it, the largest being THE PRINCE GEORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$69,805). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$71,807 in grants to CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM SOCIETY?
THE PRINCE GEORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$69,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY AND FOREST INDUSTRY MUSEUM 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 4 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