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FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS

FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS (British Columbia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$445,560 to it, the largest being THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION (C$158,064). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$412k
Revenue FY2024
16
Funders on record
C$446k
Grants received
C$200k
Net assets
8/16 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,881 community resource nonprofits its size.

Operating margin55% · top quartile
Months of reserve14.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource 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.

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$72k) Expenses 100 (C$82k)2018 Revenue 152 (C$109k) Expenses 136 (C$111k) Net assets 100 (C$20k)2019 Revenue 120 (C$86k) Expenses 101 (C$82k) Net assets 118 (C$23k)2020 Revenue 141 (C$101k) Expenses 108 (C$88k) Net assets 129 (C$25k)2021 Revenue 138 (C$99k) Expenses 122 (C$99k) Net assets 49 (C$9k)2022 Revenue 51 (C$36k) Expenses 120 (C$98k) Net assets -35 (C$-6788)2023 Revenue 93 (C$66k) Expenses 108 (C$88k) Net assets -148 (C$-28900)2024 Revenue 576 (C$412k) Expenses 225 (C$184k) Net assets 1022 (C$200k)
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Revenue (576)Expenses (225)Net assets (1022)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2020 23% · 2021 58% · 2022 11% · 2023 51% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,649 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$10k
’17
−C$3k
’18
C$4k
’19
C$13k
’20
−C$876
’21
−C$62k
’22
−C$22k
’23
C$228k
’24
15
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$33k → C$96k.

From the CRA filings of FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS’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

FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS.

35%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 54% · 2019 45% · 2020 54% · 2021 56% · 2022 87% · 2023 68% — 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

40% of FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

93% of FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.

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

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’22
’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$24 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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 16 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 FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS reports

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

FY2024C$85k
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  • 21% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS

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

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS?
FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS (British Columbia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$445,560 to it, the largest being THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION (C$158,064). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 16 organizations giving C$445,560 in grants to FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS?
THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$158,064 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LIVING AND LEARNING THROUGH LOSS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.

Play a game about who funds Friends of Living and Learning Through Loss →

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 16 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