British Columbia · Registered charity
VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY
VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 29 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,362,463 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$580,897). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 1,601 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations 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 →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.
48% of VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose C$134k → C$157k.
Left out of every figure on this page: C$15k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Vancouver Fire Fighters' Charitable Society). These are real filings, and they are not money VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY raised.
From the CRA filings of VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY’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 FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 69%; 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 FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 36% · 2019 39% · 2020 35% · 2021 48% · 2022 49% · 2023 54% — 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
60% of VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
81% of VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY'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 29 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Coquitlam FoundationlocalBC · funds 9 organizations near you
- Global Change for Children SocietylocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Burquitlam Care SocietylocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Victor & Anna Kern Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- Seedlings Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Port Coquitlam Community FoundationlocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Peter & Joanne Brown Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Ames Family Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Oasis Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Dr. Ann Worth Charitable Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Beedie Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 64 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY?
- VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 29 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,362,463 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$580,897). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 29 organizations giving C$1,362,463 in grants to VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE SOCIETY?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$580,897 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VANCOUVER FIRE FIGHTERS' CHARITABLE 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 29 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