British Columbia · Registered charity
GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION
GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,310,052 to it, the largest being AUDAIN FOUNDATION (C$1,639,777). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,747 foundations 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.
- Sunshine Coast Foundationlocal
- The Grant Macewan Charitable Foundation 2002portfolio match
- Ewald Family Foundationportfolio 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: 2019 6% · 2020 29% · 2021 8% · 2022 5% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell C$555k → C$423k.
From the CRA filings of GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION’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
GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 87% · 2019 99% · 2020 41% · 2021 56% · 2022 62% · 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
38% of GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
91% of GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION'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. C$3k 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.
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 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sunshine Coast FoundationlocalBC · funds 50 organizations near you
- The Grant Macewan Charitable Foundation 2002portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ewald Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eden Conservation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gencon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sitka Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glasswaters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Consecon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nature Canada / Canada Natureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Schad Foundationportfolio 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 GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 12% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION?
- GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,310,052 to it, the largest being AUDAIN FOUNDATION (C$1,639,777). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 23 organizations giving C$2,310,052 in grants to GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION?
- AUDAIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,639,777 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION 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 23 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