British Columbia · Registered charity
COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY
COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY (British Columbia) receives grants from 29 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$466,066 to it, the largest being DECODA LITERACY FOUNDATION (C$215,154). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY's revenue grew 51% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 388 support of schools and education 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.
- The Read Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Invermere Health Care Auxiliary Societylocal
- Times Colonist Literacy Societyportfolio 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 50% · 2018 48% · 2019 50% · 2020 52% · 2021 55% · 2022 51% · 2023 55% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (34% 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 broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell C$78k → C$66k.
From the CRA filings of COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY’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
COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 62% · 2019 51% · 2020 47% · 2021 74% · 2022 39% · 2023 55% — 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
24% of COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
63% of COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY'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$97k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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 29 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Read Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Invermere Health Care Auxiliary SocietylocalBC · funds 6 organizations near you
- Times Colonist Literacy Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tweedledum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Books Over Borders Livres Transfrontièresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Illahie Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chris-Spencer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wings Over the Rockies Nature Festival SocietylocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Windermere Valley Christian AssemblylocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Radium Christian FellowshiplocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Robert and Tatiana Ritchie FoundationlocalAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- United Way East KootenaylocalBC · 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 COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 60% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY?
- COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY (British Columbia) receives grants from 29 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$466,066 to it, the largest being DECODA LITERACY FOUNDATION (C$215,154). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 29 organizations giving C$466,066 in grants to COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY?
- DECODA LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$215,154 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIANCE FOR LITERACY 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 29 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