British Columbia · Registered charity
NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY
NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,172,305 to it, the largest being FOOD BANKS BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$500,175). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Seacliff Foundationshared funders
- Food Banks Alberta Associationportfolio match
- AMA Community Foundationportfolio 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 24% · 2019 21% · 2020 5% · 2021 12% · 2022 15% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 12 funders, grant income rose C$22k → C$127k.
From the CRA filings of NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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
NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% 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 NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 77% · 2019 91% · 2020 45% · 2021 42% · 2022 39% · 2023 23% — 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
73% of NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK 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
54% of NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK 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$10k 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 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Seacliff Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Food Banks Alberta Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AMA Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Times Colonist Christmas Fund Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feed Nova Scotia Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Simcoe County Paramedic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sussex Sharing Club Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Damascus Road Foundationshared fundersON · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
- Munday-Maxwell & Gaylene-Associationshared fundersBC · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Tamara Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 26 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.
Government revenue NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 8% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY?
- NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,172,305 to it, the largest being FOOD BANKS BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$500,175). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 26 organizations giving C$1,172,305 in grants to NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY?
- FOOD BANKS BRITISH COLUMBIA is the largest funder on record, with C$500,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NICOLA VALLEY FOOD BANK 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 26 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