British Columbia · Registered charity
WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION
WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$237 to it, the largest being Mobile Giving Foundation Canada / Fondation des dons mobiles du Canada (C$190). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 3,008 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,008 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Le Roi Community Foundationlocal
- Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundationportfolio match
- Aberdeen Hall Preparatory School Societyportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
100% of WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$47 → C$190.
From the CRA filings of WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION’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
WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 2 regions in all.
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.
- Le Roi Community FoundationlocalBC · funds 14 organizations near you
- Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aberdeen Hall Preparatory School Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Commonage Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Purkids Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barry Lapointe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- HAB Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Merrifield Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Randall Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Centra Cares 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.
Organizations like WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION?
- WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$237 to it, the largest being Mobile Giving Foundation Canada / Fondation des dons mobiles du Canada (C$190). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$237 in grants to WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION?
- Mobile Giving Foundation Canada / Fondation des dons mobiles du Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST KOOTENAY BAGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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