British Columbia · Registered charity
SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY
SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$421,073 to it, the largest being THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION (C$150,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY has grown faster 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
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.
- Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canadashared fundersportfolio match
- Green Municipal Fundlocalportfolio match
- Sooke Folk Music Societylocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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: 2022 90% · 2023 84% · 2024 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$57k → C$124k.
From the CRA filings of SOOKE SHELTER 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
SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 71%; 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 SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 54% · 2022 40% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
71% of SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
55% of SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY'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. 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 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canadashared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Green Municipal Fundlocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sooke Folk Music SocietylocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raising the Roof Chez Toitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters/Operation Boite a Chassures Pour Refugesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/Hockey Aide Les Sans-Abriportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Big Wheel Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Paul's Foundation (Edmonton)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Southern Interior Bcportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- British Columbia Masonic 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 SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 84% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like SOOKE SHELTER 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY?
- SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$421,073 to it, the largest being THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION (C$150,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 12 organizations giving C$421,073 in grants to SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOOKE SHELTER SOCIETY?
- THE VICTORIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOOKE SHELTER 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 12 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