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British Columbia · Registered charity

VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY (British Columbia) receives grants from 48 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$19,153,909 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY FOUNDATION (C$11,989,834). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$3.9M
Revenue FY2024
48
Funders on record
C$19M
Grants received
C$7.4M
Net assets
34/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%

Against its field

VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−29% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,019 teaching institutions 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 →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$3.6M) Expenses 100 (C$4.2M) Net assets 100 (C$7.9M)2018 Revenue 88 (C$3.2M) Expenses 96 (C$4.0M) Net assets 97 (C$7.7M)2019 Revenue 95 (C$3.4M) Expenses 100 (C$4.2M) Net assets 91 (C$7.2M)2020 Revenue 122 (C$4.4M) Expenses 103 (C$4.3M) Net assets 93 (C$7.4M)2021 Revenue 99 (C$3.5M) Expenses 112 (C$4.7M) Net assets 92 (C$7.3M)2022 Revenue 156 (C$5.6M) Expenses 116 (C$4.8M) Net assets 89 (C$7.1M)2023 Revenue 101 (C$3.6M) Expenses 116 (C$4.8M) Net assets 94 (C$7.4M)2024 Revenue 108 (C$3.9M) Expenses 120 (C$5.0M) Net assets 93 (C$7.4M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (108)Expenses (120)Net assets (93)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

86% of VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 821 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$578k
’17
−C$850k
’18
−C$759k
’19
C$86k
’20
−C$1.1M
’21
C$776k
’22
−C$1.2M
’23
−C$1.1M
’24
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose C$1.8M → C$2.6M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Vancouver Foundationunclassified
C$3.7M
St Andrew's Hallidentity?
C$1.1M
The United Church of Canadaunclassified
C$761k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$232k
The Victoria Foundationunclassified
C$98k
The Foundation Office.Caunclassified
C$20k
BenefAction Foundationunclassified
C$6k
Movein Vision Teamunclassified
C$3k
funders
20
24
24
22
27
30
22
21

From the CRA filings of VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY.

63%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 72% · 2019 70% · 2020 61% · 2021 57% · 2022 52% · 2023 60% — 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

51% of VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
British Columbia out of province

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.

03Its place in the field

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 48 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2022C$25k
17
20
22
  • 0% of FY2022 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

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

Canadian Chinese School of Theology Vancouver76%Vancouver Institute for Evangelical Worldview75%Associated Canadian Theological Schools Society75%Vancouver School of Theology Foundation75%Seminary of Christ the King73%Institute of Lutheran Theology Canada Society72%The Parish of St. Paul Vancouver72%Calvary School of Theology Canadian Fellowship72%

Nationally

Canadian Chinese School of Theology Vancouver76%Vancouver Institute for Evangelical Worldview75%Associated Canadian Theological Schools Society75%Vancouver School of Theology Foundation75%Newman Theological College St. Josephs Seminary75%The Toronto School of Theology74%Seminary of Christ the King73%Lutheran Theological Seminary73%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 20%Fundraising 6%

Governance

15
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY?
VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY (British Columbia) receives grants from 48 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$19,153,909 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY FOUNDATION (C$11,989,834). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 48 organizations giving C$19,153,909 in grants to VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY?
VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$11,989,834 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY 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 48 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