British Columbia · Registered charity
SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY
SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$111,844 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,180 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,180 public amenities nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- The Sitka Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Raffi Foundation for Child Honouringshared funderslocal
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifiqueportfolio 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.
97% of SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (28% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose C$597 → C$2k.
From the CRA filings of SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION 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
SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 39% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 67% · 2022 41% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
67% of SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$37k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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.
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.
- The Sitka Foundationlocalportfolio matchBC · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Raffi Foundation for Child Honouringshared funderslocalBC · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · funds 9 organizations near you
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifiqueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eden Conservation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nature Canada / Canada Natureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Natureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ducks Unlimited Canada/Canards Illimites Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clayoquot Biosphere Trust Societyportfolio 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 SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 0% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION 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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY?
- SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$111,844 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$111,844 in grants to SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY?
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALT SPRING ISLAND WATER PRESERVATION 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 7 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