British Columbia · Registered charity
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN)
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN) (British Columbia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$223,823 to it, the largest being BHAVSAGAR SIKH TEMPLE SOCIETY FOR OLIVER & OSOYOOS (C$107,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN) runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 442 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 442 teaching institutions 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.
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lectureshared fundersportfolio match
- Cwb Welding Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communitieslocal
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 83% · 2018 88% · 2019 85% · 2020 86% · 2021 88% · 2022 86% · 2023 86% · 2024 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN)’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell C$111k → C$13k.
From the CRA filings of THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN)’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
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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 BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 68% · 2019 36% · 2020 44% · 2021 41% · 2022 36% · 2023 33% — 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
60% of THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
90% of THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN)'s grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$43k 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. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lectureshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cwb Welding Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary CommunitieslocalBC · funds 26 organizations near you
- Child Nutrition Council of Manitoba Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sedin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music Education Charity of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Plant a Seed & See What Grows Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thumb Switch for Lifeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation / L'Institut Jane Goodall Pour la Recherche L'Education Et la Conservation de la Fauneportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christ Lutheran Church of Grand Forks British Columbia CanadalocalBC · funds 7 organizations near you
- Julia Street Community ChurchlocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
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 BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 86% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN)
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN)?
- THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN) (British Columbia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$223,823 to it, the largest being BHAVSAGAR SIKH TEMPLE SOCIETY FOR OLIVER & OSOYOOS (C$107,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$223,823 in grants to THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN), 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN)?
- BHAVSAGAR SIKH TEMPLE SOCIETY FOR OLIVER & OSOYOOS is the largest funder on record, with C$107,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 53 (OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN) 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 14 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