British Columbia · Registered charity
MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY
MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$608,663 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$550,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 119 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 education in the arts 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.
- Unity of New Westminster Churchlocal
- New Westminster Fire Fighters Charitable Societylocal
- New Westminster Foundationlocal
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: 2017 13% · 2018 17% · 2019 15% · 2020 33% · 2021 53% · 2022 37% · 2023 25% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell C$75k → C$3k.
From the CRA filings of MASSEY THEATRE 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
MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 99% · 2021 94% · 2022 96% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
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.
- Unity of New Westminster ChurchlocalBC · funds 5 organizations near you
- New Westminster Fire Fighters Charitable SocietylocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- New Westminster FoundationlocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Lighthouse of Hope Christian FellowshiplocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Vancouver Rotary Club FoundationlocalBC · funds 5 organizations near you
- Queens Avenue United ChurchlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- YMCA BclocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- St. Simon's Church North VancouverlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Walsh FoundationlocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of CoquitlamlocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Deer Lake United ChurchlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank SocietylocalBC · funds 8 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 MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 17% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY?
- MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$608,663 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$550,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$608,663 in grants to MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSEY THEATRE SOCIETY 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 7 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