British Columbia · Registered charity
KICKSTART FOUNDATION
KICKSTART FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,372 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY EAST ONTARIO / CENTRAIDE EST DE L'ONTARIO (C$1,800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KICKSTART FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,067 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,067 foundations nonprofits under $100k, 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 Lum Family Foundationlocal
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio match
- Cadence Cares 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: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of KICKSTART FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$27 → C$2k.
From the CRA filings of KICKSTART 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
KICKSTART FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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 KICKSTART FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
KICKSTART FOUNDATION draws 99% 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. 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Lum Family FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cadence Cares Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Triercon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Steele Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rethink Charity Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East Meets West Children's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dkm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yellow Bus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Quiet Cove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Joshua Foundation Incportfolio 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 KICKSTART FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 2% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like KICKSTART 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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds KICKSTART FOUNDATION?
- KICKSTART FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,372 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY EAST ONTARIO / CENTRAIDE EST DE L'ONTARIO (C$1,800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KICKSTART FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$2,372 in grants to KICKSTART FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of KICKSTART FOUNDATION?
- UNITED WAY EAST ONTARIO / CENTRAIDE EST DE L'ONTARIO is the largest funder on record, with C$1,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KICKSTART FOUNDATION 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 4 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