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VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY

VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,713,066 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$673,035). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$16M
Revenue FY2024
31
Funders on record
C$1.7M
Grants received
C$17M
Net assets
12/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Against its field

VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty 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.

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$4.2M) Expenses 100 (C$4.1M) Net assets 100 (C$8.6M)2018 Revenue 111 (C$4.6M) Expenses 115 (C$4.7M) Net assets 100 (C$8.6M)2019 Revenue 93 (C$3.9M) Expenses 95 (C$3.9M) Net assets 100 (C$8.6M)2020 Revenue 96 (C$4.0M) Expenses 97 (C$3.9M) Net assets 99 (C$8.6M)2021 Revenue 158 (C$6.6M) Expenses 124 (C$5.1M) Net assets 120 (C$10M)2022 Revenue 217 (C$9.1M) Expenses 224 (C$9.1M) Net assets 137 (C$12M)2023 Revenue 253 (C$11M) Expenses 294 (C$12M) Net assets 149 (C$13M)2024 Revenue 388 (C$16M) Expenses 324 (C$13M) Net assets 199 (C$17M)
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Revenue (388)Expenses (324)Net assets (199)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 74% · 2018 68% · 2019 56% · 2020 54% · 2021 60% · 2022 47% · 2023 51% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

50% of VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (2% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 478 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$123k
’17
−C$31k
’18
C$19k
’19
C$101k
’20
C$1.6M
’21
−C$55k
’22
−C$1.3M
’23
C$3.1M
’24
9.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$112k → C$277k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$673k
C$237k
Right To Foodidentity?
C$100k
C$59k
C$21k
C$16k
C$3k
C$500
C$500
funders
8
7
6
12
13
13
14
10

From the CRA filings of VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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 VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY.

39%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 75% · 2019 63% · 2020 39% · 2021 32% · 2022 55% · 2023 52% — 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

50% of VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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

VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 4 regions in all.

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$21k 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.

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 31 funders put you typical 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 VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY reports

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

FY2024C$10M
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
  • 64% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY?
VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,713,066 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$673,035). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 31 organizations giving C$1,713,066 in grants to VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$673,035 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE 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 31 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