British Columbia · Registered charity
HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC
HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC (British Columbia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$114,315 to it, the largest being VANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$107,123). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- The 1988 Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Societyshared fundersportfolio match
- Books Over Borders Livres Transfrontièreslocal
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: 2017 92% · 2018 96% · 2019 93% · 2020 90% · 2021 90% · 2022 89% · 2023 92% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$110 → C$296.
From the CRA filings of HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC’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
HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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 HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 78% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 77% — 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
94% of HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$7k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside British Columbia, across 2 regions.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$107k 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The 1988 Foundationlocalportfolio matchBC · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Societyshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Books Over Borders Livres TransfrontièreslocalBC · funds 7 organizations near you
- Central City Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vancouver Unitarians Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ardea Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr. Ann Worth Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Royal Roads Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cridge Centre for the Familyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mathisen Family Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Face the World Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schein 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 HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 92% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC?
- HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC (British Columbia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$114,315 to it, the largest being VANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$107,123). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$114,315 in grants to HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC?
- VANCITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$107,123 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMELESSNESS SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF BC 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 6 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