British Columbia · Registered charity
MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY
MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 149 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,586,541 to it, the largest being JOHN R. MCCONNELL FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION JOHN R. MCCONNELL (C$640,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- The Damascus Road Foundationshared funders
- Health Partners International of Canada / Partenaires canadiens pour la santé internationaleportfolio match
- Seacliff Foundationshared funders
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.
64% of MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 61 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose C$309k → C$363k.
From the CRA filings of MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 149 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
MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 40% · 2019 23% · 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 63% · 2023 20% — 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
34% of MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 9 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$135k 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 149 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Damascus Road Foundationshared fundersON · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Health Partners International of Canada / Partenaires canadiens pour la santé internationaleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seacliff Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- The Sisters of the Presentationshared fundersSK · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Reimer Express Foundation Inc.shared fundersMB · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canadashared fundersON · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Peoples Ministries Inc.shared fundersON · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Munday-Maxwell & Gaylene-Associationshared fundersBC · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Itlma Foundationshared fundersAB · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- The Charis Foundationshared fundersON · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- D H Falle Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Lagniappe Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like MERCY SHIPS 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY?
- MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 149 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,586,541 to it, the largest being JOHN R. MCCONNELL FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION JOHN R. MCCONNELL (C$640,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 149 organizations giving C$3,586,541 in grants to MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY?
- JOHN R. MCCONNELL FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION JOHN R. MCCONNELL is the largest funder on record, with C$640,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY SHIPS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 149 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