British Columbia · Registered charity
LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY
LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,029,784 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$1,050,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 67 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 67 environment 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.
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Lions Club of Nelson Charitable Trustlocal
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifiqueportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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: 2018 13% · 2019 5% · 2020 39% · 2021 36% · 2022 20% · 2023 52% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 18 funders, grant income rose C$76k → C$809k.
From the CRA filings of LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 29% · 2020 61% · 2021 66% · 2022 49% · 2023 43% — 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
67% of LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY draws 52% 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$109k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Lions Club of Nelson Charitable TrustlocalBC · funds 24 organizations near you
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifiqueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Conservation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bc Parks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ducks Unlimited Canada/Canards Illimites Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kootenay Advocacy Network/TasklocalBC · funds 5 organizations near you
- Nelson Circle Foundation Trustee M D BerglocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Nelson Evangelical Covenant ChurchlocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- St John's Lutheran ChurchlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- West Kootenay Regional Arts CouncillocalBC · 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.
Government revenue LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 57% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like LIVING LAKES CANADA 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY?
- LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,029,784 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$1,050,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 37 organizations giving C$3,029,784 in grants to LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY?
- RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 37 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