British Columbia · Registered charity
PAIN BC SOCIETY
PAIN BC SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,023,544 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$400,800). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$3.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- C$2.0M
- Net assets
- C$331k
What Pain Bc Society does
Ongoing programs
The charity provides education workshops course materials and webinars for health care providers and people living with pain. The charity carries out awareness campaigns to reduce the stigma surrounding chronic pain. The charity carries maintains free online self-management tools for people living with chronic pain. The charity provides support services (including a 1-800 support line and a coaching program) to people living with pain and their families. The charity engages with health system partners on quality improvement initiatives to improve outcomes for people living with pain. The charity collaborates with research institutions researchers and other partners to foster research on pain and pain-related disability. The charity engages partners in early intervention and prevention initiatives to prevent negative impacts from pain including disability.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from C$1.3M to C$3.2M (+153%).
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 80% · 2018 91% · 2019 68% · 2020 78% · 2021 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 73% · 2024 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of PAIN BC SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (6% 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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$21k → C$231k.
From the CRA filings of PAIN BC SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
PAIN BC SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 PAIN BC SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 88% · 2019 97% · 2020 45% · 2021 19% · 2022 26% · 2023 43% — 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
40% of PAIN BC SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
69% of PAIN BC 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$9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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.
Against its field
PAIN BC SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 879 core health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 879 core health care nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue PAIN BC SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 59% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like PAIN BC 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds PAIN BC SOCIETY?
- PAIN BC SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,023,544 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$400,800). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAIN BC SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 34 organizations giving C$2,023,544 in grants to PAIN BC SOCIETY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAIN BC SOCIETY?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$400,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAIN BC 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 34 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register