British Columbia · Registered charity
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (British Columbia) receives grants from 192 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$88,540,449 to it, the largest being United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada (C$27,061,618). 115 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA is better cushioned than half of the 362 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 362 foundations nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Dania Home Society Residents Foundationlocal
- Lending a Hand Societyportfolio match
- Blue Planet Linksportfolio 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 30% · 2018 33% · 2019 26% · 2020 70% · 2021 42% · 2022 41% · 2023 74% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 83 funders to 88 funders, grant income rose C$5.4M → C$24M.
Left out of every figure on this page: C$871k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way British Columbia). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA raised.
From the CRA filings of UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 192 funders by total. 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
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 65%; 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 UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 34% · 2019 25% · 2020 64% · 2021 27% · 2022 36% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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
49% of UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 9 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$737k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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 192 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Dania Home Society Residents FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Lending a Hand Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Planet Linksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hieros Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Randall Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parish of St-Francis-In-The-Woodportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Buddha's Light International Association - Vancouverportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Su Ming Guo 2019 Charitable TrustlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Indo-Africa Charitable SocietylocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Marathi Society of B.C.localBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Urban Spirit FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Danish Lutheran Church 'Granly' SurreylocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
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 UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 22% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA?
- UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (British Columbia) receives grants from 192 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$88,540,449 to it, the largest being United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada (C$27,061,618). 115 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 192 organizations giving C$88,540,449 in grants to UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA, 115 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA?
- United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$27,061,618 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA 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 192 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