British Columbia · Registered charity
FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY
FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 49 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,210,439 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$665,539). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 158 protective health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 158 protective 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.
- St James Community Square Societylocal
- Fondation Air Canadaportfolio match
- Sodexo Foundation Inc/Fondation Sodexo Incportfolio 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.
86% of FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell C$155k → C$93k.
From the CRA filings of FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 43% · 2019 52% · 2020 57% · 2021 46% · 2022 71% · 2023 64% — 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
45% of FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 5 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$170k 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.
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 49 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- St James Community Square SocietylocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Fondation Air Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sodexo Foundation Inc/Fondation Sodexo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Change for Children Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neil Murkar Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Club des petits déjeuners du Canada - Breakfast Club of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Right To Foodportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable FoundationlocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Unknown Angel SocietylocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Con Brio FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 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 FIRST STEPS HEALTH 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
3% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY?
- FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 49 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,210,439 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$665,539). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 49 organizations giving C$1,210,439 in grants to FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$665,539 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST STEPS HEALTH SOCIETY 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 49 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