British Columbia · Registered charity
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.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$16M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- C$1.7M
- Net assets
- C$17M
What Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society does
Ongoing programs
Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society's vision is to create a thriving self-sustaining culturally-based urban aboriginal community. The society provides programs in health welfare social services human rights culture education recreation and equality for all genders of aboriginal people of all age groups. Other programs include: 1. Recreation designed to provide sport and leisure activities for aboriginal youth between the ages of 6-29 years. 2. Elder's program provides a nourishing environment for elders to apply and maintain tranditional practices in a social environment. 3. Urban aboriginal representative (family support) serves both status and non-status aboriginal families who reside off the reserve in the greater vancouver regional district area offering guidance case consultations in child protection court assistance counselling support material and human resource referrals and other preventative social services. 4. Family place provides healthy supportive environment to the whole family learning new lifeskill tools and access valuable resouces. 5. Aboriginal shelter is a program open to all cultures on a first come first serve basis. The…
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$14M to C$19M (+34%).
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$112k → C$277k.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government revenue VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 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
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register