British Columbia · Registered charity
VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,847 to it, the largest being DEUX MILLE FOUNDATION (C$9,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,070 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,070 arts nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Christopher Foundationshared fundersportfolio 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: 2018 46% · 2019 32% · 2022 45% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (28% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell C$254 → C$147.
From the CRA filings of VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC 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 PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 89% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
77% of VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC 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.
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Christopher Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Heathcliff Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mary and Gordon Christopher Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lutsky Family Foundationshared funderslocalBC · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · funds 11 organizations near you
- Marsid Family FoundationlocalBC · funds 14 organizations near you
- Beech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bing Thom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank & Joan Lew Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tuey Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 34% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY?
- VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,847 to it, the largest being DEUX MILLE FOUNDATION (C$9,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$13,847 in grants to VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY?
- DEUX MILLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$9,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VANCOUVER PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY 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 4 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