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VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY

VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 40 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,000,369 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$543,810). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$1.0M
Revenue FY2024
40
Funders on record
C$1.0M
Grants received
C$1.5M
Net assets
26/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%

Against its field

VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,451 christianity 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$785k) Expenses 100 (C$827k) Net assets 100 (C$1.5M)2018 Revenue 97 (C$763k) Expenses 104 (C$858k) Net assets 94 (C$1.4M)2019 Revenue 91 (C$713k) Expenses 105 (C$869k) Net assets 83 (C$1.3M)2020 Revenue 75 (C$588k) Expenses 60 (C$500k) Net assets 89 (C$1.4M)2021 Revenue 97 (C$762k) Expenses 61 (C$507k) Net assets 106 (C$1.6M)2022 Revenue 99 (C$781k) Expenses 93 (C$767k) Net assets 107 (C$1.6M)2023 Revenue 117 (C$915k) Expenses 102 (C$843k) Net assets 112 (C$1.7M)2024 Revenue 128 (C$1.0M) Expenses 146 (C$1.2M) Net assets 98 (C$1.5M)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (146)Net assets (98)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2018 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 14% · 2021 11% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

50% of VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,150 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$42k
’17
−C$96k
’18
−C$156k
’19
C$88k
’20
C$255k
’21
C$14k
’22
C$72k
’23
−C$207k
’24
3.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 19 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose C$65k → C$170k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$544k
Private Giving Foundationunclassified
C$62k
Vernon Alliance Churchunclassified
C$30k
Foord Family Foundationunclassified
C$30k
Pioneer Place Societyunclassified
C$23k
First West Foundationunclassified
C$20k
Alexis Park Churchunclassified
C$9k
BenefAction Foundationunclassified
C$6k
Community Baptist Churchunclassified
C$3k
Trinity United Churchunclassified
C$3k
The Kebzeh Foundationunclassified
C$2k
J & G Servant Foundationunclassified
C$2k
Canada Givesunclassified
C$1k
funders
19
19
19
16
19
23
17
17

From the CRA filings of VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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

VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY.

54%
largest funder
70%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 41% · 2019 39% · 2020 59% · 2021 52% · 2022 44% · 2023 62% — 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

56% of VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$152k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 40 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$184k
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  • 18% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION 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

Vernon Alliance Church76%Union Gospel Mission73%Vernon Christian Fellowship73%Village Missions of Canada71%Active Support Against Poverty Society70%Lotus Humanitarian Society70%Potter's Place Mission Society70%First United Church Community Ministry Society70%

Nationally

Vernon Alliance Church76%Riverside Mission Inc.74%Union Gospel Mission73%Inn From the Cold Society73%Vernon Christian Fellowship73%Upper Room Family Worship Center73%The Yonge Street Mission72%Restoration Missionary Fellowship Inc.72%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 8%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY?
VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 40 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,000,369 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$543,810). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 40 organizations giving C$1,000,369 in grants to VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$543,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VERNON UPPER ROOM MISSION SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.

Play a game about who funds Vernon Upper Room Mission Society →

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 40 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