British Columbia · Registered charity
OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY
OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$52,134 to it, the largest being Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation (C$20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities 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.
- Central Okanagan Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communitieslocal
- Nature Canada / Canada Natureportfolio 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 49% · 2018 49% · 2019 46% · 2020 59% · 2021 60% · 2022 43% · 2023 50% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (10% 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 narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$5k → C$967.
From the CRA filings of OSOYOOS DESERT 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
OSOYOOS DESERT 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 OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 95% · 2019 87% · 2020 60% · 2021 93% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
53% of OSOYOOS DESERT 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$14k 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Central Okanagan Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary CommunitieslocalBC · funds 26 organizations near you
- Nature Canada / Canada Natureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bc Parks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sitka Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifiqueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- T-Gear Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Conservation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alberta Ecotrust Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Peel Naturalists' Clubportfolio 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 OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 51% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like OSOYOOS DESERT 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY?
- OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$52,134 to it, the largest being Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation (C$20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$52,134 in grants to OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OSOYOOS DESERT SOCIETY?
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OSOYOOS DESERT 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 7 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