British Columbia · Registered charity
NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION
NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$966,031 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$770,560). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 381 other religions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 381 other religions 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.
- Cadence Cares Foundationlocal
- The Khalsa Foundationportfolio match
- Shukrana Foundation Inc.portfolio match
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: 2018 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$55k → C$75k.
From the CRA filings of NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION’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
NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 62% · 2019 83% · 2020 77% · 2021 94% · 2022 81% · 2023 78% — 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
20% of NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.
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. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cadence Cares FoundationlocalBC · funds 9 organizations near you
- The Khalsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shukrana Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Islamic Centre of Markhamportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Khalsa Diwan Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Change for Children Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blossom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Akali Singh Sikh Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R.R. Smith Memorial Fund Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shubh Helping Handsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2018 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION?
- NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$966,031 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$770,560). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 15 organizations giving C$966,031 in grants to NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$770,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION 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 15 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