British Columbia · Registered charity
COLUMBIA INSTITUTE
COLUMBIA INSTITUTE (British Columbia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,412,221 to it, the largest being THE J W MCCONNELL FAMILY FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION DE LA FAMILLE J W MCCONNELL (C$1,648,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COLUMBIA INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,019 teaching institutions 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.
- Max Bell Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Jacqui Cohen Family Foundationlocal
- The Samuel Family 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.
100% of COLUMBIA INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% 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 rose C$442k → C$1.2M.
From the CRA filings of COLUMBIA INSTITUTE’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 INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 30% · 2019 35% · 2020 29% · 2021 48% · 2022 57% · 2023 50% — 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
42% of COLUMBIA INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
COLUMBIA INSTITUTE draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 4 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$89k 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 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Max Bell Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Jacqui Cohen Family FoundationlocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- The Samuel Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pirie Foundation Non-Profit Priv Assoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mastercard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rideau Hall Foundation / Fondation Rideau Hallportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gwyn Morgan and Patricia Trottier Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loran Scholars Foundation / Fondation Boursiers Loranportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Counselling Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John Dobson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Essential Needs FoundationlocalBC · funds 3 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.
Organizations like COLUMBIA INSTITUTE
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLUMBIA INSTITUTE?
- COLUMBIA INSTITUTE (British Columbia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,412,221 to it, the largest being THE J W MCCONNELL FAMILY FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION DE LA FAMILLE J W MCCONNELL (C$1,648,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA INSTITUTE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 26 organizations giving C$5,412,221 in grants to COLUMBIA INSTITUTE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA INSTITUTE?
- THE J W MCCONNELL FAMILY FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION DE LA FAMILLE J W MCCONNELL is the largest funder on record, with C$1,648,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA INSTITUTE 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