British Columbia · Registered charity
NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY
NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$192,251 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND (C$72,792). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,442 community resource nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Times Colonist Christmas Fund Societyshared fundersportfolio match
- Food Banks British Columbiashared fundersportfolio match
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Societyshared fundersportfolio 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: 2017 41% · 2018 48% · 2019 50% · 2020 50% · 2021 32% · 2022 45% · 2023 63% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (60% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$21k.
From the CRA filings of NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS 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
NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 56% · 2019 76% · 2020 73% · 2021 70% · 2022 53% · 2023 71% — broadly stable.
“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
67% of NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
90% of NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS 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. C$5k 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.
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 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Times Colonist Christmas Fund Societyshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks British Columbiashared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Societyshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Southern Interior Bcshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fanny Bay Salmonid Enhancement SocietylocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- United Way of North Okanagan Columbia Shuswapportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Decoda Literacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Right To Foodportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Etra Therapeutic Riding AssociationlocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- First Unitarian Fellowship of NanaimolocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- The Board of Education of School District No. 68 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith)localBC · funds 8 organizations near you
- The High School at Vancouver Island University AssociationlocalBC · funds 2 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 NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 61% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS 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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY?
- NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$192,251 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND (C$72,792). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 12 organizations giving C$192,251 in grants to NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS SOCIETY?
- UNITED WAY CENTRAL AND NORTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND is the largest funder on record, with C$72,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NANAIMO COMMUNITY KITCHENS 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 12 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