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NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION

NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$124,719 to it, the largest being THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (C$46,814). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$545k
Revenue FY2024
15
Funders on record
C$125k
Grants received
C$202k
Net assets
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 1,075 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve11.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,075 support of schools and education 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.

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$412k) Expenses 100 (C$410k) Net assets 100 (C$86k)2018 Revenue 118 (C$485k) Expenses 124 (C$510k) Net assets 46 (C$39k)2019 Revenue 105 (C$433k) Expenses 99 (C$406k) Net assets 54 (C$46k)2020 Revenue 122 (C$502k) Expenses 115 (C$472k) Net assets 66 (C$57k)2021 Revenue 126 (C$518k) Expenses 102 (C$416k) Net assets 176 (C$150k)2022 Revenue 135 (C$555k) Expenses 129 (C$527k) Net assets 208 (C$178k)2023 Revenue 128 (C$526k) Expenses 125 (C$514k) Net assets 216 (C$185k)2024 Revenue 132 (C$545k) Expenses 128 (C$524k) Net assets 236 (C$202k)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (128)Net assets (236)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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 44% · 2019 15% · 2020 12% · 2021 68% · 2022 22% · 2023 14% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (40% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 957 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$2k
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−C$25k
’18
C$27k
’19
C$31k
’20
C$101k
’21
C$28k
’22
C$13k
’23
C$21k
’24
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose C$6k → C$16k.

Funder
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'23
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total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$16k
First West Foundationunclassified
C$4k
funders
7
7
5
4
4
3
8
6

From the CRA filings of NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION’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 LITERACY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 LITERACY ASSOCIATION.

38%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 58% · 2019 57% · 2020 47% · 2021 72% · 2022 47% · 2023 63% — 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

27% of NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 5 regions in all.

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

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British Columbia out of province

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.

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 15 funders put you under-funded 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 NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION reports

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

FY2024C$82k
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  • 15% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION

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

Literacy Society of the North Okanagan76%Nanaimo Volunteer and Information Centre Society76%Nanaimo Citizen Advocacy Assoc73%Literacy Haida Gwaii Society70%Nanaimo Search and Rescue Society69%Project Literacy Central Okanagan Society69%Nanaimo Brain Injury Society69%Nanaimo Community Hospice Society68%

Nationally

Literacy Society of the North Okanagan76%Nanaimo Volunteer and Information Centre Society76%Nanaimo Citizen Advocacy Assoc73%Program for Adult Learning (Pal)71%North Algoma Literacy Coalition Inc71%Literacy Haida Gwaii Society70%Community Therapy Dogs Society69%Literacy Council of South Temiskaming69%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION?
NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$124,719 to it, the largest being THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (C$46,814). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 15 organizations giving C$124,719 in grants to NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION?
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE is the largest funder on record, with C$46,814 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NANAIMO LITERACY ASSOCIATION 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