British Columbia · Registered charity
THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN)
THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN) (British Columbia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$169,206 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$63,906). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN) runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 388 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 388 support of schools and education 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.
- Click-Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Societylocalportfolio match
- Central City Foundationlocal
- The Christopher 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: 2017 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 11% · 2020 30% · 2021 36% · 2022 22% · 2023 34% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN)’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (34% 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 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$19k → C$153.
From the CRA filings of THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN)’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
THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 53% · 2019 48% · 2020 76% · 2021 83% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
63% of THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN)'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
78% of THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN)'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. 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 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Click-Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Societylocalportfolio matchBC · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Central City FoundationlocalBC · funds 12 organizations near you
- The Christopher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lutsky Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gmr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Y.P.Heung Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Langara Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hamber Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada Vancouver Sectionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Times Colonist Literacy Societyportfolio 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 THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 43% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN)
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN)?
- THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN) (British Columbia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$169,206 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$63,906). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 12 organizations giving C$169,206 in grants to THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN), 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN)?
- UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA is the largest funder on record, with C$63,906 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND JAPANESE HALL (VANCOUVER NIHON-GO GAKKO NARABI NI NIKKEI JIN KAIKAN) 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 12 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