British Columbia · Registered charity
VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY
VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY (British Columbia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$126,436 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$25,350). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 95 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 public amenities 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.
- Rotary Club of Lantzville Societylocal
- Kimberley Foundationportfolio match
- Tony and Mignon Fenton Trustportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (3% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell C$14k → C$7k.
From the CRA filings of VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 16 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 ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 71% · 2019 57% · 2020 43% · 2021 65% · 2022 98% · 2023 56% — 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
40% of VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
65% of VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY'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. C$46k 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.
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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rotary Club of Lantzville SocietylocalBC · funds 12 organizations near you
- Kimberley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tony and Mignon Fenton Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ontario Genealogical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Christopher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bowen Island Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Campbell River Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dogwood Heritage Society of B.C.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Societyshared funderslocalBC · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 25 organizations near you
- Fanny Bay Salmonid Enhancement SocietylocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- Etra Therapeutic Riding AssociationlocalBC · funds 3 organizations near you
- First Unitarian Fellowship of NanaimolocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
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 ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 99% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY?
- VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY (British Columbia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$126,436 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$25,350). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 16 organizations giving C$126,436 in grants to VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$25,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VANCOUVER ISLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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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 16 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