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British Columbia · Registered charity

LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY

LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,163,765 to it, the largest being Comox Valley Community Foundation (C$267,887). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$957k
Revenue FY2024
22
Funders on record
C$1.2M
Grants received
C$530k
Net assets
12/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%

Against its field

LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$86k) Expenses 100 (C$89k) Net assets -127 (C$-79258)2018 Revenue 136 (C$118k) Expenses 137 (C$121k)2019 Revenue 210 (C$182k) Expenses 163 (C$145k) Net assets -155 (C$-97035)2020 Revenue 319 (C$276k) Expenses 281 (C$249k) Net assets 100 (C$63k)2021 Revenue 889 (C$769k) Expenses 766 (C$679k) Net assets 243 (C$152k)2022 Revenue 1429 (C$1.2M) Expenses 916 (C$813k) Net assets 679 (C$426k)2023 Revenue 1361 (C$1.2M) Expenses 1162 (C$1.0M) Net assets 1010 (C$633k)2024 Revenue 1106 (C$957k) Expenses 1221 (C$1.1M) Net assets 846 (C$530k)
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Revenue (1106)Expenses (1221)Net assets (846)Peer revenue range

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.

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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 73% · 2018 58% · 2019 59% · 2020 50% · 2021 21% · 2022 55% · 2023 49% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

30% of LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,865 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$2k
’17
−C$3k
’18
C$37k
’19
C$27k
’20
C$89k
’21
C$423k
’22
C$146k
’23
−C$126k
’24
5.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$85k.

From the CRA filings of LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION 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

LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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 LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY.

23%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 36% · 2019 47% · 2020 54% · 2021 29% · 2022 39% · 2023 35% — 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

45% of LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$300k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$254k
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  • 27% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY?
LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,163,765 to it, the largest being Comox Valley Community Foundation (C$267,887). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 22 organizations giving C$1,163,765 in grants to LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION SOCIETY?
Comox Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$267,887 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUSH VALLEY FOOD ACTION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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