British Columbia · Registered charity
VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS
VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS (British Columbia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$473,250 to it, the largest being FOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION (C$181,246). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,067 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Deux Mille Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Christopher Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Bing Thom Foundationlocalportfolio 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.
100% of VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS’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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose C$10k → C$55k.
From the CRA filings of VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS’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
VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 77% · 2020 66% · 2021 77% · 2022 82% · 2023 54% — 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
75% of VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
100% of VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS'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. 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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Deux Mille Foundationlocalportfolio matchBC · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Christopher Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchBC · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bing Thom Foundationlocalportfolio matchBC · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationlocalportfolio matchBC · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Y.P.Heung Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lutsky Family Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- Beech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Just Philanthropy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bergeron Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tuey Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central City FoundationlocalBC · funds 9 organizations near you
- Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS?
- VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS (British Columbia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$473,250 to it, the largest being FOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION (C$181,246). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$473,250 in grants to VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS?
- FOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$181,246 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS 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 11 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