British Columbia · Registered charity
GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY
GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,381,089 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$1,080,868). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- City Dream Centre Societylocalportfolio match
- The Baptist Housing Ministries Societylocal
- Food Banks British Columbiaportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
90% of GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose C$195 → C$121k.
From the CRA filings of GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY’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
GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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 GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 28% · 2022 94% · 2023 86% — 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
33% of GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$6k 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 27 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- City Dream Centre Societylocalportfolio matchBC · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Baptist Housing Ministries SocietylocalBC · funds 7 organizations near you
- Food Banks British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Akali Singh Sikh Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Times Colonist Christmas Fund Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pera Giving Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sovereign Order of St. John Victoria Commandery Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Victoria Truth Centre Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Baptist Foundation of B.C.localBC · funds 6 organizations near you
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 GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY?
- GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,381,089 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$1,080,868). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 27 organizations giving C$1,381,089 in grants to GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$1,080,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GURU NANAK'S FREE KITCHEN SOCIETY 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 27 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