British Columbia · Registered charity
NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY
NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$707,158 to it, the largest being Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada (C$456,047). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource 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.
- Royal Lepage Shelter Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Manitoba Association of Women's Shelters Inc.shared fundersportfolio match
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canadashared 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 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 91% · 2022 87% · 2023 91% · 2024 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (4% 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 broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$16k → C$325k.
From the CRA filings of NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES 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
NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 68% · 2019 67% · 2020 36% · 2021 70% · 2022 84% · 2023 91% — 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
67% of NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY draws 95% 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. C$94k 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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Royal Lepage Shelter Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 159 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Association of Women's Shelters Inc.shared fundersportfolio matchMB · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canadashared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kootenay Advocacy Network/TasklocalBC · funds 5 organizations near you
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bc Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greene Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters/Operation Boite a Chassures Pour Refugesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raising the Roof Chez Toitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nelson Circle Foundation Trustee M D BerglocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Nelson Evangelical Covenant ChurchlocalBC · funds 3 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 NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 86% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY?
- NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$707,158 to it, the largest being Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada (C$456,047). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$707,158 in grants to NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY?
- Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$456,047 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NELSON COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 14 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