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PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY

PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$891,238 to it, the largest being DECODA LITERACY FOUNDATION (C$241,489). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$429k
Revenue FY2024
25
Funders on record
C$891k
Grants received
C$136k
Net assets
17/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%

Against its field

PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,075 support of schools and education 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.

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$305k) Expenses 100 (C$303k) Net assets 100 (C$211k)2018 Revenue 107 (C$327k) Expenses 102 (C$310k) Net assets 108 (C$227k)2019 Revenue 43 (C$130k) Expenses 57 (C$174k) Net assets 2 (C$4k)2020 Revenue 88 (C$267k) Expenses 113 (C$342k) Net assets 52 (C$109k)2021 Revenue 109 (C$333k) Expenses 96 (C$291k) Net assets 70 (C$148k)2022 Revenue 97 (C$296k) Expenses 108 (C$326k) Net assets 57 (C$121k)2023 Revenue 105 (C$322k) Expenses 117 (C$355k) Net assets 42 (C$87k)2024 Revenue 141 (C$429k) Net assets 64 (C$136k)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (117)Net assets (64)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
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 37% · 2019 1% · 2020 42% · 2021 37% · 2022 35% · 2023 37% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (40% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 957 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

C$2k
’17
C$17k
’18
−C$44k
’19
−C$75k
’20
C$42k
’21
−C$30k
’22
−C$34k
’23
’24
7.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 14 funders, grant income rose C$120k → C$182k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Decoda Literacy Foundationunclassified
C$241k
The Belmont Foundationunclassified
C$88k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$34k
First West Foundationunclassified
C$20k
The Calgary Foundationunclassified
C$3k
Urban Systems Foundationunclassified
C$2k
PayPal Giving Fund Canadaunclassified
C$640
funders
14
11
12
11
10
10
14
11

From the CRA filings of PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN 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

PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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 PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY.

27%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 32% · 2019 37% · 2020 59% · 2021 28% · 2022 45% · 2023 36% — 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

47% of PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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

86% of PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.

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

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’22
’23
British Columbia out of province

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.

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 25 funders put you under-funded 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 PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY reports

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

FY2024C$245k
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  • 57% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN 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

Literacy Society of the North Okanagan77%Literacy Now Cowichan Society76%Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society75%Chilliwack Learning Society72%Literacy Haida Gwaii Society72%Comox Valley Community Adult Literacy and Learning Society (Calls)72%Campbell River Community Literacy Association71%One to One Literacy Society71%

Nationally

Literacy Society of the North Okanagan77%Literacy Now Cowichan Society76%Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society75%Literacy for Life Foundation73%Literacy Council of South Temiskaming73%The Okotoks Library Board73%P a L S Project Adult Literacy Society72%Yukon Learn Society72%
04Profile & governance

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

Governance

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board members

Questions and answers

Who funds PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY?
PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$891,238 to it, the largest being DECODA LITERACY FOUNDATION (C$241,489). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 25 organizations giving C$891,238 in grants to PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN SOCIETY?
DECODA LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$241,489 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT LITERACY CENTRAL OKANAGAN 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 25 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