British Columbia · Registered charity
SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION
SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,170,662 to it, the largest being SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL (C$10,308,705). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 61 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 61 support of schools and education 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.
- Clayoquot Biosphere Trust Societylocal
- Cocks Family Foundationlocal
- Comox Valley Community Foundationlocal
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.
9% of SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (2% 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 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell C$967k → C$455k.
From the CRA filings of SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION’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
SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 33% · 2019 34% · 2020 78% · 2021 64% · 2022 29% · 2023 19% — 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
65% of SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
91% of SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION'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$15k 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 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Clayoquot Biosphere Trust SocietylocalBC · funds 22 organizations near you
- Cocks Family FoundationlocalBC · funds 5 organizations near you
- Comox Valley Community FoundationlocalBC · funds 21 organizations near you
- Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Dr. Ann Worth Charitable Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Comox Valley Food Bank SocietylocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Gabriola Island Lions FoundationlocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Peter & Joanne Brown Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trustshared fundersBC · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- The Slaight Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Times Colonist Christmas Fund SocietylocalBC · funds 5 organizations near you
- Christ Church GabriolalocalBC · funds 3 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
- SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,170,662 to it, the largest being SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL (C$10,308,705). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 30 organizations giving C$14,170,662 in grants to SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
- SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL is the largest funder on record, with C$10,308,705 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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 30 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