British Columbia · Registered charity
WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY
WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$668,473 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$450,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$319k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- C$668k
- Net assets
- C$93k
What Wepress Community Arts Space Society does
Ongoing programs
WePress continued to advance education in methods of print- and art-making by providing free public opportunities in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Canada with a particular focus on individuals marginalized by systems of class sexuality gender race culture disability mental health addictions and colonization. WePress continued to take the extra efforts and resources required to address accessibility issues and the numerous barriers to art-making that exist for many low-income and marginalized people by providing free equipment materials skills and digital technology.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from C$80k to C$197k (+146%).
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: 2019 23% · 2020 65% · 2021 73% · 2022 74% · 2023 53% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY’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 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$100k → C$101k.
From the CRA filings of WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE 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
WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 44% · 2022 66% · 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
79% of WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE 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.
Against its field
WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 689 education in the arts nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government revenue WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 56% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY?
- WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$668,473 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$450,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$668,473 in grants to WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE SOCIETY?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$450,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEPRESS COMMUNITY ARTS SPACE 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register