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COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY

COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$436,788 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$321,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$214k
Revenue FY2024
12
Funders on record
C$437k
Grants received
C$12k
Net assets
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%

Against its field

COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 712 supportive health care 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$148k) Expenses 100 (C$141k) Net assets 100 (C$14k)2018 Revenue 86 (C$128k) Expenses 85 (C$119k) Net assets 166 (C$23k)2019 Revenue 72 (C$106k) Expenses 75 (C$106k) Net assets 166 (C$23k)2020 Revenue 82 (C$121k) Expenses 79 (C$111k) Net assets 240 (C$33k)2021 Revenue 140 (C$207k) Expenses 119 (C$168k) Net assets 522 (C$72k)2022 Revenue 116 (C$172k) Expenses 130 (C$183k) Net assets 445 (C$62k)2023 Revenue 115 (C$171k) Expenses 143 (C$202k) Net assets 222 (C$31k)2024 Revenue 144 (C$214k) Expenses 165 (C$232k) Net assets 87 (C$12k)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (165)Net assets (87)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.

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2018
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 57% · 2018 80% · 2019 83% · 2020 60% · 2021 39% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (35% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 705 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$8k
’17
C$9k
’18
−C$37
’19
C$10k
’20
C$39k
’21
−C$11k
’22
−C$31k
’23
−C$19k
’24
3.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$84k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
United Way British Columbiaunclassified
C$321k
Rexall Care Networkunclassified
C$11k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$7k
The Victoria Foundationunclassified
C$2k
First West Foundationunclassified
C$50
funders
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6
6
6
3

From the CRA filings of COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT 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

COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY.

73%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 64% · 2019 43% · 2020 71% · 2021 81% · 2022 78% · 2023 67% — 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

50% of COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.

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

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’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY reports

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

FY2024C$78k
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  • 37% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT 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

Family Caregivers Society of British Columbia82%Cowichan Valley Hospice Society78%Cowichan Family Life Association76%Comox Valley Family Services Association74%Cowichan Seniors Community Foundation74%United Way East Kootenay73%V.C. Volunteer Cowichan73%Gaia Community Care and Wellness Society72%

Nationally

Family Caregivers Society of British Columbia82%Caregivers Nova Scotia Association78%Cowichan Valley Hospice Society78%Cowichan Family Life Association76%Comox Valley Family Services Association74%Cowichan Seniors Community Foundation74%United Way East Kootenay73%V.C. Volunteer Cowichan73%
04Profile & governance

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

Questions and answers

Who funds COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY?
COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$436,788 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$321,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 12 organizations giving C$436,788 in grants to COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY?
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA is the largest funder on record, with C$321,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COWICHAN FAMILY CAREGIVERS SUPPORT SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.

Play a game about who funds Cowichan Family Caregivers Support Society →

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 12 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