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M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY

M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$101,576 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY (C$37,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$2.8M
Revenue FY2024
17
Funders on record
C$102k
Grants received
C$866k
Net assets
2/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

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.

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$3.5M) Expenses 100 (C$3.4M) Net assets 100 (C$797k)2018 Revenue 92 (C$3.2M) Expenses 101 (C$3.4M) Net assets 85 (C$675k)2019 Revenue 95 (C$3.3M) Expenses 96 (C$3.2M) Net assets 98 (C$778k)2020 Revenue 86 (C$3.0M) Expenses 80 (C$2.7M) Net assets 131 (C$1.0M)2021 Revenue 82 (C$2.8M) Expenses 79 (C$2.7M) Net assets 154 (C$1.2M)2022 Revenue 84 (C$2.9M) Expenses 85 (C$2.9M) Net assets 160 (C$1.3M)2023 Revenue 82 (C$2.8M) Expenses 93 (C$3.2M) Net assets 119 (C$953k)2024 Revenue 81 (C$2.8M) Expenses 87 (C$2.9M) Net assets 109 (C$866k)
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Revenue (81)Expenses (87)Net assets (109)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 62% · 2018 64% · 2019 66% · 2020 62% · 2021 62% · 2022 58% · 2023 57% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (34% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 356 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$101k
’17
−C$220k
’18
C$73k
’19
C$286k
’20
C$177k
’21
C$54k
’22
−C$316k
’23
−C$134k
’24
2.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose C$761 → C$15k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Aqueduct Foundationunclassified
C$16k
Lohn Foundationunclassified
C$1k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$593
PayPal Giving Fund Canadaunclassified
C$275
funders
3
4
2
7
3
2
2
2

From the CRA filings of M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 17 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

M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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 M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY.

36%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 70% · 2019 52% · 2020 65% · 2021 58% · 2022 55% · 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

17% of M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 12% 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

96% of M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.

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

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’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$25k 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.

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 17 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 M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY reports

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

FY2024C$1.6M
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  • 56% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH 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

4r's Education Centre (Soc.)70%Learning Disabilities Association of British Columbia Vernon Chapter70%Learning Disabilities Society of Greater Vancouver70%Learning Differences Centre Society of Bc69%Langley Children's Society69%Learning Disabilities Association of B.C. Fraser South Chapter68%The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centres for B.C.67%Vernon and District Association for Community Living66%

Nationally

4r's Education Centre (Soc.)70%Learning Disabilities Association of British Columbia Vernon Chapter70%Learning Disabilities Society of Greater Vancouver70%Edmonton Academy Society for Learning Disabled69%Learning Differences Centre Society of Bc69%National Institute for Learning Development Canada69%Langley Children's Society69%Elevate Learning Centre68%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 9%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY?
M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$101,576 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY (C$37,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 17 organizations giving C$101,576 in grants to M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY?
VANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with C$37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like M.L.E. TRAINING AND RESEARCH SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.

Play a game about who funds M.L.E. Training and Research Society →

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 17 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