British Columbia · Registered charity
SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY
SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$139,827 to it, the largest being Comox Valley Community Foundation (C$106,268). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 380 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 380 arts nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Auxiliary Society for Comox Valley Healthcarelocal
- The Hamber Foundationportfolio match
- Y.P.Heung Foundationportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 39% · 2018 39% · 2019 65% · 2020 48% · 2021 91% · 2022 60% · 2023 42% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell C$11k → C$7k.
From the CRA filings of SID WILLIAMS THEATRE 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
SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 76% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
76% of SID WILLIAMS THEATRE 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$34k that is directly attributable, 86% 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$106k 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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 319 organizations that share them.
- Auxiliary Society for Comox Valley HealthcarelocalBC · funds 8 organizations near you
- The Hamber Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Y.P.Heung Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chris-Spencer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawthorne Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Port Coquitlam Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tweedledum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mathisen Family Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wettstein Family Foundationportfolio 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 SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 30% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like SID WILLIAMS THEATRE 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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY?
- SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$139,827 to it, the largest being Comox Valley Community Foundation (C$106,268). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$139,827 in grants to SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SID WILLIAMS THEATRE SOCIETY?
- Comox Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$106,268 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SID WILLIAMS THEATRE 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 5 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