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PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (British Columbia) receives grants from 57 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,473,998 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$375,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$43M
Revenue FY2024
57
Funders on record
C$2.5M
Grants received
C$18M
Net assets
34/57 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 145 community resource nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 145 community resource nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$27M) Expenses 100 (C$25M) Net assets 100 (C$5.2M)2018 Revenue 101 (C$27M) Expenses 105 (C$26M) Net assets 120 (C$6.3M)2019 Revenue 107 (C$29M) Expenses 110 (C$27M) Net assets 146 (C$7.6M)2020 Revenue 125 (C$34M) Expenses 129 (C$32M) Net assets 173 (C$9.0M)2021 Revenue 129 (C$35M) Expenses 137 (C$34M) Net assets 194 (C$10M)2022 Revenue 131 (C$35M) Expenses 136 (C$34M) Net assets 228 (C$12M)2023 Revenue 136 (C$37M) Expenses 140 (C$35M) Net assets 247 (C$13M)2024 Revenue 161 (C$43M) Expenses 153 (C$38M) Net assets 352 (C$18M)
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Revenue (161)Expenses (153)Net assets (352)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 93% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% · 2024 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

23% of PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 123 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$2.1M
’17
C$1.1M
’18
C$1.4M
’19
C$1.5M
’20
C$639k
’21
C$1.6M
’22
C$1.8M
’23
C$5.3M
’24
5.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose C$171k → C$602k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$250k
C$184k
C$163k
C$125k
C$100k
C$50k
C$45k
Cknw Kids' Fundunclassified
C$30k
C$18k
Lohn Foundationunclassified
C$12k
C$11k
C$9k
funders
15
17
22
26
20
24
32
23

From the CRA filings of PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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

PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

15%
largest funder
39%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 28% · 2019 25% · 2020 22% · 2021 30% · 2022 22% · 2023 42% — 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

54% of PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 4 regions in all.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$319k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 57 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$40M
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18
19
20
21
22
23
24
  • 93% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA?
PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (British Columbia) receives grants from 57 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,473,998 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$375,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 57 organizations giving C$2,473,998 in grants to PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA?
RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PLEA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.

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 57 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