British Columbia · Registered charity
WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY
WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$43,464 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$42,464). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 301 foundations advancing education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 301 foundations advancing education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Societyshared fundersportfolio match
- Nakusp and Area Community Foundationlocal
- Times Colonist Literacy Societyportfolio 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: 2017 76% · 2018 68% · 2019 70% · 2020 75% · 2021 72% · 2022 58% · 2023 54% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the CRA filings of WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE 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
WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY.
“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
100% of WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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.
- Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Societyshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 3 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Nakusp and Area Community FoundationlocalBC · funds 8 organizations near you
- Times Colonist Literacy Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Postmedia Network Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sedin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lectureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music Education Charity of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thumb Switch for Lifeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Art Starts in Schools Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation / L'Institut Jane Goodall Pour la Recherche L'Education Et la Conservation de la Fauneportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Plant a Seed & See What Grows 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 WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE 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 WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY?
- WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$43,464 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA (C$42,464). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$43,464 in grants to WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE SOCIETY?
- UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA is the largest funder on record, with C$42,464 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST KOOTENAY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE 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 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