British Columbia · Registered charity
COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION
COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$12,253 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$9,738). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 781 education in the arts nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- St Andrews Presbyterian Churchlocal
- Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Christopher 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 43% · 2018 19% · 2019 42% · 2020 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$265 → C$432.
From the CRA filings of COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION’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 VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 78% · 2021 75% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 1 region in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
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.
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.
- St Andrews Presbyterian ChurchlocalBC · funds 10 organizations near you
- Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Christopher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bing Thom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Just Philanthropy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Credit Union Foundation of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John C. Kerr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freybe 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 VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 73% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION?
- COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$12,253 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$9,738). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$12,253 in grants to COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$9,738 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COWICHAN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION 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 2 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