British Columbia · Registered charity
CITY LIFE CHURCH
CITY LIFE CHURCH (British Columbia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$231,703 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$127,488). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CITY LIFE CHURCH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,451 christianity nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,451 christianity nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Chilliwack Foundationlocal
- Western Ontario District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canadaportfolio match
- GraceNetwork Canadaportfolio 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 31% · 2018 34% · 2019 33% · 2020 34% · 2021 45% · 2022 43% · 2023 40% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of CITY LIFE CHURCH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose C$19k → C$38k.
From the CRA filings of CITY LIFE CHURCH’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
CITY LIFE CHURCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 CITY LIFE CHURCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 46% · 2019 72% · 2021 28% · 2022 56% · 2023 66% — 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
0% of CITY LIFE CHURCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
CITY LIFE CHURCH draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$2k 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 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Chilliwack FoundationlocalBC · funds 25 organizations near you
- Western Ontario District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- GraceNetwork Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace Hanin Community Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vision Ministries Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MULTIPLY Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canada West Presbytery (PCA) Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Royal Youth For Christ International Fellowship Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bible League of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mount Shannon United ChurchlocalBC · funds 5 organizations near you
- Main Street Church SocietylocalBC · funds 8 organizations near you
- Chilliwack Fire Fighters Charitable SocietylocalBC · funds 6 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 CITY LIFE CHURCH reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 38% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CITY LIFE CHURCH
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CITY LIFE CHURCH?
- CITY LIFE CHURCH (British Columbia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$231,703 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$127,488). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITY LIFE CHURCH have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 22 organizations giving C$231,703 in grants to CITY LIFE CHURCH, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY LIFE CHURCH?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$127,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY LIFE CHURCH 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 22 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