British Columbia · Registered charity
FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY
FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$301,154 to it, the largest being SURREYCARES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$152,166). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Food Banks British Columbiashared fundersportfolio match
- Burquitlam Care Societylocal
- Times Colonist Christmas Fund Societyportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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: 2020 49% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose C$835 → C$69k.
From the CRA filings of FOOD BANK ON WHEELS 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
FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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 FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 53% · 2022 20% · 2023 87% — 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
33% of FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY'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$86k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside British Columbia, across 4 regions.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$215k 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 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Food Banks British Columbiashared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Burquitlam Care SocietylocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Times Colonist Christmas Fund Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food for Life Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David McAntony Gibson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Alberta Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sodexo Foundation Inc/Fondation Sodexo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lighthouse Church Paocportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Victoria Truth Centre Inc.portfolio 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 FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 14% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FOOD BANK ON WHEELS 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY?
- FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$301,154 to it, the largest being SURREYCARES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$152,166). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 18 organizations giving C$301,154 in grants to FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD BANK ON WHEELS SOCIETY?
- SURREYCARES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$152,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD BANK ON WHEELS 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 18 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