British Columbia · Registered charity
COWICHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
COWICHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$33,242 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HERITAGE SOCIETY OF B.C. (C$19,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COWICHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.
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.
- Chemainus Health Care Auxiliarylocalportfolio match
- St Andrews Presbyterian Churchlocal
- Chilliwack 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 78% · 2018 50% · 2019 57% · 2020 62% · 2021 76% · 2022 54% · 2023 32% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of COWICHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (10% 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose C$316 → C$6k.
From the CRA filings of COWICHAN HISTORICAL 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 70% · 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 2022 89% · 2023 87% — 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.
Where its funders are
73% of COWICHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY'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$3k 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.
- Chemainus Health Care Auxiliarylocalportfolio matchBC · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- St Andrews Presbyterian ChurchlocalBC · funds 10 organizations near you
- Chilliwack Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Moss Rock Park Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Comox Valley Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Whistlerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Kootenay Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Columbia Valley Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Le Roi Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whistler Health Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 64% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like COWICHAN HISTORICAL 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds COWICHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- COWICHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$33,242 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HERITAGE SOCIETY OF B.C. (C$19,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COWICHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$33,242 in grants to COWICHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COWICHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- DOGWOOD HERITAGE SOCIETY OF B.C. is the largest funder on record, with C$19,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COWICHAN HISTORICAL 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 5 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