British Columbia · Registered charity
Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island
Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island (British Columbia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,558,052 to it, the largest being LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SOCIETY (C$714,480). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$9.4M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- C$2.6M
- Net assets
- C$9.1M
What Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island does
Ongoing programs
To provide comfort and relief to individuals who are in need. To provide training supervision and skills to the mentally and physically challenged individuals in our communities. The society has food pantry that offers fresh produce culturally appropriate food options as well as dairy and non perishables to those in need of food. A range of food items has been brought into some of the more remote areas on vancouver island such as gold-river tahsis and zeballos to assist those communities with their food insecurity issues. Tenants living in the society's residential buildings are able to participate in on-site community garden where they lean how to increase their food security. The society also offers a referral program to help connect individuals in need of services offered by our community partners such as housing counselling and employment training to name a few in the hopee to provide a hand up to those individuals. The income tax program is also offered in order to ensure that individuals are current with their income tax filings and continue to receive any government benefits that are entitled to. The society also offers a transitional housing program for single…
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from C$20M to C$23M (+11%).
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 35% · 2018 38% · 2019 35% · 2020 39% · 2021 31% · 2022 32% · 2023 44% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% 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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell C$550k → C$458k.
From the CRA filings of Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island’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
Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 39% · 2019 44% · 2020 20% · 2021 27% · 2022 67% · 2023 44% — 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
67% of Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
83% of Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island'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$39k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 40% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island
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 Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island?
- Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island (British Columbia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,558,052 to it, the largest being LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SOCIETY (C$714,480). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 30 organizations giving C$2,558,052 in grants to Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island?
- LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with C$714,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register