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THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C.

THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C. (British Columbia) receives grants from 136 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,382,048 to it, the largest being RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CANADA / MAISON RONALD MCDONALD CANADA (C$9,475,240). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$12M
Funders on record
136
Grants received
C$13M
Net assets
C$58M
77/136 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What The Children's Family House Society of B.C. does

Ongoing programs

When parents have a child who is battling a serious illness and the specialized care required is hours from home the situation can feel overwhelming. For over 35 years it has been our mission to offer accommodation that keeps children and families close to that specialized care and an incredible community of support. We’re here to keep families together when it matters most. We have a 73-bedroom house with services available for families conveniently located near BC Children’s Hospital. RMH BC also operates a Family Room in Surrey Memorial Hospital. RMH BC is a place filled with hope and love built on the belief that keeping the family together is an essential part of healing children with serious illnesses. Our on-going programs for children and their families include family meals groceries and pantry foods art and music therapy and health and wellness core programs. The families enjoy the facilities' Lego room games room sports courtyard teen lounge arts and crafts and movie nights. Accommodation nights provided = 26 645 nights Families served = 900+ families Music Therapy = 600 hours serving 1390+ attendants Art Therapy = 360+ hours serving 830+ attendants…

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The 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$5.3M) Expenses 100 (C$4.3M) Net assets 100 (C$43M)2018 Revenue 121 (C$6.4M) Expenses 109 (C$4.7M) Net assets 104 (C$45M)2019 Revenue 144 (C$7.6M) Expenses 128 (C$5.5M) Net assets 108 (C$47M)2020 Revenue 133 (C$7.0M) Expenses 117 (C$5.0M) Net assets 113 (C$49M)2021 Revenue 186 (C$9.7M) Expenses 131 (C$5.6M) Net assets 122 (C$53M)2022 Revenue 119 (C$6.2M) Expenses 155 (C$6.7M) Net assets 121 (C$53M)2023 Revenue 167 (C$8.8M) Expenses 167 (C$7.2M) Net assets 125 (C$54M)2024 Revenue 226 (C$12M) Expenses 186 (C$8.0M) Net assets 134 (C$58M)
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Revenue (226)Expenses (186)Net assets (134)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from C$50M to C$54M (+9%).

C$44M
C$46M
C$48M
C$50M
C$54M
C$54M
C$55M
C$59M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2020 8% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

54% of THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C.’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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$947k
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C$1.6M
’18
C$2.1M
’19
C$2.0M
’20
C$4.1M
’21
−C$427k
’22
C$1.6M
’23
C$3.8M
’24
8.9
months of
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.

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Listed2417181716182017
Joined·+0+3+3+2+4+4+0
No longer listed·7243223
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose C$768k → C$2.1M.

From the CRA filings of THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C.’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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 CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C..

71%
largest funder
76%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 83% · 2019 84% · 2020 75% · 2021 75% · 2022 68% · 2023 65% — 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

38% of THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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

THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C. draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 7 regions in all.

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

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British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$294k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C. runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government revenue THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C. reports

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

FY2021C$362k
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  • 4% of FY2021 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

57% of spending goes to programs.

Program 57%Management 26%Fundraising 16%

Governance

17
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C.?
THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C. (British Columbia) receives grants from 136 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,382,048 to it, the largest being RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CANADA / MAISON RONALD MCDONALD CANADA (C$9,475,240). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C. have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 136 organizations giving C$13,382,048 in grants to THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C., 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C.?
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CANADA / MAISON RONALD MCDONALD CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$9,475,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY HOUSE SOCIETY OF B.C. find more funders?
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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 136 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