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FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS

FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS (British Columbia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$140,158 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$98,203). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$110k
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
C$140k
Grants received
C$92k
Net assets
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities 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$82k) Expenses 100 (C$88k) Net assets 100 (C$28k)2018 Revenue 125 (C$102k) Expenses 103 (C$90k) Net assets 152 (C$42k)2019 Revenue 129 (C$106k) Expenses 111 (C$97k) Net assets 177 (C$49k)2020 Revenue 91 (C$74k) Expenses 57 (C$50k) Net assets 0 (C$0)2021 Revenue 81 (C$66k) Expenses 88 (C$77k) Net assets 234 (C$65k)2022 Revenue 127 (C$105k) Expenses 115 (C$101k) Net assets 248 (C$69k)2023 Revenue 121 (C$99k) Expenses 100 (C$88k) Net assets 286 (C$79k)2024 Revenue 133 (C$110k) Expenses 112 (C$98k) Net assets 332 (C$92k)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (112)Net assets (332)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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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 29% · 2019 28% · 2020 48% · 2021 30% · 2022 19% · 2023 8% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

58% of FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$6k
’17
C$12k
’18
C$9k
’19
C$24k
’20
−C$10k
’21
C$4k
’22
C$12k
’23
C$11k
’24
8.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose C$1k → C$15k.

From the CRA filings of FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS’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 THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS.

70%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 54% · 2019 60% · 2020 61% · 2021 45% · 2022 48% · 2023 71% — 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

80% of FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS'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

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

FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.

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

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’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$7k 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 8 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 THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS reports

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

FY2024C$6k
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  • 5% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS

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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS?
FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS (British Columbia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$140,158 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$98,203). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$140,158 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$98,203 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE SUMMERLAND RESEARCH STATION GARDENS 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 the Summerland Research Station Gardens →

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 8 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