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THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER

THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER (British Columbia) receives grants from 53 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,540,516 to it, the largest being VANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$2,833,938). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$24M
Revenue FY2024
53
Funders on record
C$4.5M
Grants received
C$4.9M
Net assets
26/53 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 145 community resource nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · above the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 145 community resource nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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$9.5M) Expenses 100 (C$9.0M) Net assets 100 (C$2.1M)2018 Revenue 131 (C$12M) Expenses 132 (C$12M) Net assets 125 (C$2.7M)2019 Revenue 152 (C$14M) Expenses 136 (C$12M) Net assets 135 (C$2.9M)2020 Revenue 163 (C$15M) Expenses 171 (C$15M) Net assets 139 (C$3.0M)2021 Revenue 199 (C$19M) Expenses 200 (C$18M) Net assets 178 (C$3.8M)2022 Revenue 211 (C$20M) Expenses 221 (C$20M) Net assets 186 (C$4.0M)2023 Revenue 214 (C$20M) Expenses 221 (C$20M) Net assets 207 (C$4.4M)2024 Revenue 253 (C$24M) Expenses 262 (C$24M) Net assets 228 (C$4.9M)
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Revenue (253)Expenses (262)Net assets (228)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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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 91% · 2018 92% · 2019 80% · 2020 92% · 2021 95% · 2022 89% · 2023 93% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 124 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$487k
’17
C$536k
’18
C$2.2M
’19
C$94k
’20
C$808k
’21
C$186k
’22
C$437k
’23
C$446k
’24
3.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell C$232k → C$157k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
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total
C$416k
C$240k
C$100k
C$38k
Makeway Foundationunclassified
C$35k
C$28k
C$24k
C$6k
funders
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18

From the CRA filings of THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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

THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER.

62%
largest funder
78%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 50% · 2019 88% · 2020 79% · 2021 28% · 2022 67% · 2023 70% — 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

42% of THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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

63% of THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$1.7M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from British Columbia funders.

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

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British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

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 53 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 THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER reports

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

FY2024C$21M
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  • 89% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER?
THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER (British Columbia) receives grants from 53 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,540,516 to it, the largest being VANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$2,833,938). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 53 organizations giving C$4,540,516 in grants to THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER?
VANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$2,833,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER 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 53 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