British Columbia · Registered charity
GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY
GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$495,712 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$191,942). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$915k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- C$496k
- Net assets
- C$912k
What Green Thumb Players Society does
Ongoing programs
We create produce and tour professional theatrical productions for children youth and young adults. We tour our works directly into schools and venues to meet youth where they are. We continue to encounter a lot of difficulties while touring such as the high cost of hiring professional contractors or the last-minute cancellations due to illness. This season we produced and toured one elementary school show: the mixolydian which toured in-person regionally. We also produced and toured two secondary school shows-for now which toured regionally and still falling which also toured regionally. The playwrights' gym is a paid training program that offers professional development opportunities for playwrights to study and develop skills specific to scrip writing for school touring for young audiences. This program helps to develop playwrights with the skills and knowledge to successfully write a tya touring play for green thumb.
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 2017 to 2018, from C$129k to C$1.2M (+812%).
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 63% · 2018 61% · 2019 68% · 2020 73% · 2021 92% · 2022 82% · 2023 73% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose C$42k → C$63k.
From the CRA filings of GREEN THUMB PLAYERS 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
GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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 GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 41% · 2019 39% · 2020 60% · 2021 50% · 2022 31% · 2023 35% — 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
45% of GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
69% of GREEN THUMB PLAYERS 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. C$3k 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.
Against its field
GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government revenue GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 81% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like GREEN THUMB PLAYERS 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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY?
- GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$495,712 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$191,942). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 22 organizations giving C$495,712 in grants to GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$191,942 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREEN THUMB PLAYERS SOCIETY 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 22 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