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British Columbia · Registered charity

MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY

MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 206 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$92,200,670 to it, the largest being MAKEWAY FOUNDATION (C$20,699,524). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$40M
Revenue FY2024
206
Funders on record
C$92M
Grants received
C$24M
Net assets
126/206 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 80%

Against its field

MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 15 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · below the median
Months of reserve9.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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$18M) Expenses 100 (C$15M) Net assets 100 (C$5.1M)2018 Revenue 24 (C$4.3M) Expenses 28 (C$4.2M) Net assets 102 (C$5.2M)2019 Revenue 115 (C$20M) Expenses 136 (C$21M) Net assets 97 (C$5.0M)2020 Revenue 122 (C$21M) Expenses 137 (C$21M) Net assets 113 (C$5.8M)2021 Revenue 158 (C$28M) Expenses 147 (C$22M) Net assets 222 (C$11M)2022 Revenue 215 (C$38M) Expenses 185 (C$28M) Net assets 418 (C$22M)2023 Revenue 188 (C$33M) Expenses 221 (C$33M) Net assets 412 (C$21M)2024 Revenue 227 (C$40M) Expenses 245 (C$37M) Net assets 473 (C$24M)
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Revenue (227)Expenses (245)Net assets (473)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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 19% · 2019 18% · 2020 23% · 2021 20% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (28% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$2.6M
’17
C$95k
’18
−C$234k
’19
C$809k
’20
C$5.7M
’21
C$10M
’22
−C$240k
’23
C$3.1M
’24
9.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 54 funders to 86 funders, grant income rose C$2.6M → C$17M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Makeway Foundationunclassified
C$21M
C$13M
C$6.2M
C$3.7M
Right To Foodunclassified
C$1.9M
C$1.8M
C$1.7M
C$1.4M
Toronto Foundationunclassified
C$1.4M
C$624k
C$524k
C$500k
The Dragonfly Fundunclassified
C$496k
C$360k
C$359k
funders
54
69
65
74
76
88
86
81

From the CRA filings of MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 206 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

MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY.

22%
largest funder
49%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 12% · 2019 55% · 2020 38% · 2021 32% · 2022 33% · 2023 37% — 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

43% of MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 8 regions in all.

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 206 funders put you well-backed 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 MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY reports

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

FY2024C$9.3M
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18
19
20
21
22
23
24
  • 23% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like MAKEWAY CHARITABLE 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

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 16%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY?
MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 206 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$92,200,670 to it, the largest being MAKEWAY FOUNDATION (C$20,699,524). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 206 organizations giving C$92,200,670 in grants to MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY, 126 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY?
MAKEWAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$20,699,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAKEWAY CHARITABLE 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 206 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