Newfoundland and Labrador · Registered charity
FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC.
FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC. (Newfoundland and Labrador) receives grants from 28 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,382,950 to it, the largest being SUNCOR ENERGY FOUNDATION/FONDATION SUNCOR ENERGIE (C$333,580). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$8.7M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- C$1.4M
- Net assets
- C$808k
What First Light St. John's Friendship Centre Inc. does
Ongoing programs
The charity provides support and resources to people of indigenous ancestry in the city of st. John's. The organization also promotes awareness of indigenous culture. The services provided by the organization include hospital liaison patient pickup and drop off to and from the airport and hospitals hospital visitations and interpretations prison visits accommodations meals recreation and social activities job training programs liaison with government agencies and the promotion of indigenous artists within the province. The organization also has a ten room facility to provide overnight accommodations to indigenous people visiting the city for hospital appointments or other personal business. The organization offers an after-school program for area children whereby they offer tutoring or other guidance and snacks as needed. The organization also runs a daycare centre. The organization is also involved in various violence for women programs. The organization offers various entertainment and education sessions through space leased from cochrane st. United church. The organization has purchased properties on 36 and 40 quidi vidi road and…
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 2023 to 2024, from C$9.2M to C$17M (+80%).
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 51% · 2018 99% · 2019 62% · 2020 70% · 2021 64% · 2022 47% · 2023 51% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC.’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$89k → C$395k.
From the CRA filings of FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC.’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
FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC. has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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 FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 62% · 2019 97% · 2020 37% · 2021 43% · 2022 42% · 2023 34% — 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
25% of FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC. draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Newfoundland and Labrador, across 6 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$55k 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
FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC. holds deeper cash reserves 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 FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 52% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC.
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 Newfoundland and Labrador
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC.?
- FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC. (Newfoundland and Labrador) receives grants from 28 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,382,950 to it, the largest being SUNCOR ENERGY FOUNDATION/FONDATION SUNCOR ENERGIE (C$333,580). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 28 organizations giving C$1,382,950 in grants to FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC., 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC.?
- SUNCOR ENERGY FOUNDATION/FONDATION SUNCOR ENERGIE is the largest funder on record, with C$333,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST LIGHT ST. JOHN'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC. find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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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 28 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