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THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES

THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES (British Columbia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$745,198 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$287,496). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$13M
Revenue FY2024
21
Funders on record
C$745k
Grants received
C$4.0M
Net assets
11/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty 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$5.9M) Expenses 100 (C$5.8M) Net assets 100 (C$2.6M)2018 Revenue 106 (C$6.2M) Expenses 100 (C$5.8M) Net assets 118 (C$3.1M)2019 Revenue 133 (C$7.8M) Expenses 123 (C$7.1M) Net assets 148 (C$3.9M)2020 Revenue 135 (C$8.0M) Expenses 133 (C$7.7M) Net assets 160 (C$4.2M)2021 Revenue 152 (C$9.0M) Expenses 144 (C$8.3M) Net assets 184 (C$4.8M)2022 Revenue 168 (C$9.9M) Expenses 179 (C$10M) Net assets 166 (C$4.3M)2023 Revenue 194 (C$11M) Expenses 199 (C$11M) Net assets 162 (C$4.2M)2024 Revenue 229 (C$13M) Expenses 239 (C$14M) Net assets 152 (C$4.0M)
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Revenue (229)Expenses (239)Net assets (152)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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 57% · 2018 55% · 2019 60% · 2020 63% · 2021 67% · 2022 64% · 2023 68% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

37% of THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (2% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 478 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$119k
’17
C$483k
’18
C$762k
’19
C$309k
’20
C$646k
’21
−C$436k
’22
−C$104k
’23
−C$256k
’24
6.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell C$38k → C$22k.

From the CRA filings of THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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

THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% 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 THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES.

39%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 47% · 2019 76% · 2020 92% · 2021 38% · 2022 64% · 2023 32% — 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

70% of THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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

98% of THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES'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. C$89k 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 21 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 THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES reports

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

FY2024C$9.9M
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  • 73% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES

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

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES?
THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES (British Columbia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$745,198 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$287,496). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 21 organizations giving C$745,198 in grants to THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES?
VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$287,496 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE LOWER MAINLAND PURPOSE SOCIETY FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES 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 21 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