British Columbia · Registered charity
PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY
PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$279,427 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$194,244). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 947 core health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 947 core health care 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.
- Mennonite Church British Columbialocal
- Wagner Hills Farm Societyportfolio match
- Mercy Multiplied Canada Societyportfolio 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: 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 32% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of PLACE OF REFUGE 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. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$15k → C$34k.
From the CRA filings of PLACE OF REFUGE 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
PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 38% · 2019 62% · 2020 69% · 2021 75% · 2022 65% · 2023 69% — 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
64% of PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY draws 71% 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. 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 122 organizations that share them.
- Mennonite Church British ColumbialocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Wagner Hills Farm Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy Multiplied Canada Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Free Reformed Church of Langleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace Church-On-The-Hillportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Benchmark Properties Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kelowna Christian Reformed Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zechariah 4:6 Ministries Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Providence Free Reformed Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Surrey Covenant Reformed Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingdom Life Community Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Thomas Pentecostal Assemblyportfolio 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 PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 71% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like PLACE OF REFUGE 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY?
- PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$279,427 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$194,244). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$279,427 in grants to PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLACE OF REFUGE SOCIETY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$194,244 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLACE OF REFUGE 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