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GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$439,428 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$220,499). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$484k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
C$439k
Net assets
C$125k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Great Zimbabwe Cultural Society of British Columbia does

Ongoing programs

Seniors Program Food Security Research Refugees Support Promotion of culture Women’s program - Advisory committee meetings ran a survey to identified women issues and trained economic development facilitators Men’s program - Men’s committee meetings holding community meetings for men promoting volunteering and identifying issues affecting men

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 (C$295k) Expenses 100 (C$288k) Net assets 100 (C$14k)2023 Revenue 127 (C$376k) Expenses 124 (C$357k) Net assets 336 (C$48k)2024 Revenue 164 (C$484k) Expenses 141 (C$407k) Net assets 865 (C$125k)
202220232024
Revenue (164)Expenses (141)Net assets (865)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from C$108k to C$209k (+93%).

C$108k
C$209k
C$252k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 51% · 2023 24% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,865 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

C$7k
’22
C$18k
’23
C$76k
’24
4.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202220232024
Listed10159
Joined·+5+0
No longer listed·06
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell C$95k → C$92k.

From the CRA filings of GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA’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

GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

50%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 68% · 2023 54% — 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.

Where its funders are

75% of GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.

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

’22
’23
British Columbia out of province

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government revenue GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA reports

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

FY2024C$230k
22
23
24
  • 48% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA?
GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$439,428 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$220,499). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$439,428 in grants to GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA?
VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$220,499 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREAT ZIMBABWE CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register