British Columbia · Registered charity
GDB INTERNATIONAL
GDB INTERNATIONAL (British Columbia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$246,087 to it, the largest being THE PIERRE LASSONDE FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$155,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GDB INTERNATIONAL has grown faster than half of the 712 supportive health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 712 supportive health care 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.
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canadashared funders
- Kuperman Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Dr. Charles and Margaret Brown 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.
100% of GDB INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (35% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose C$2k → C$35k.
From the CRA filings of GDB INTERNATIONAL’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
GDB INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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 GDB INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 64% · 2019 81% · 2020 77% · 2021 46% · 2022 64% · 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
45% of GDB INTERNATIONAL'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
GDB INTERNATIONAL draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 4 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$20k 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 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canadashared fundersON · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
- Kuperman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dr. Charles and Margaret Brown Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jonathon D. Fischer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Merlen Kropf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Whitearn Foundation/La Fondation Whitearnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ian and Rochelle Laing Family Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deep-Akt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lions Club of Parkhill Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Doug Lamon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry and Toby Jordan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bennett Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like GDB INTERNATIONAL
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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GDB INTERNATIONAL?
- GDB INTERNATIONAL (British Columbia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$246,087 to it, the largest being THE PIERRE LASSONDE FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$155,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GDB INTERNATIONAL have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 22 organizations giving C$246,087 in grants to GDB INTERNATIONAL, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GDB INTERNATIONAL?
- THE PIERRE LASSONDE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GDB INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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