British Columbia · Registered charity
FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO
FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO (British Columbia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$287,552 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$109,110). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,451 christianity nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,451 christianity nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Rotary Club of Lantzville Societylocal
- Canadian Unitarian Councilportfolio match
- Pacific Mountain Region - The United Church of Canadaportfolio 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 56% · 2018 52% · 2019 75% · 2020 80% · 2021 86% · 2022 82% · 2023 85% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose C$6k → C$46k.
From the CRA filings of FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO’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
FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 77% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 91% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“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
25% of FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
75% of FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO'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. 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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rotary Club of Lantzville SocietylocalBC · funds 8 organizations near you
- Canadian Unitarian Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Mountain Region - The United Church of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Spirit Regional Council - the United Church of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bermuda-Nova Scotia Regional Council - The United Church of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The United Church of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prairie to Pine Regional Council - The United Church of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western Ontario Waterways Regional Council - the United Church of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Antler River Watershed Regional Council - the United Church of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horseshoe Falls Regional Council - the United Church of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peninsula United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eastern Ontario Outaouais Regional Council - The United Church of Canadaportfolio 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 FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 82% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO?
- FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO (British Columbia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$287,552 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$109,110). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 9 organizations giving C$287,552 in grants to FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO?
- UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA is the largest funder on record, with C$109,110 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NANAIMO 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 9 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