British Columbia · Registered charity
PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY
PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,457,865 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA (C$3,082,770). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 388 support of schools and education 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.
- Clayoquot Biosphere Trust Societylocalportfolio match
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- North Family 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: 2017 18% · 2018 18% · 2019 8% · 2020 5% · 2021 26% · 2022 25% · 2023 11% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (34% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$376k → C$571k.
From the CRA filings of PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE 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
PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 93% · 2019 80% · 2020 86% · 2021 67% · 2022 48% · 2023 49% — 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.
Where its funders are
84% of PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE 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. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Clayoquot Biosphere Trust Societylocalportfolio matchBC · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Willow Grove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifiqueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bc Parks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Wildlife Federation/Fédération Canadienne de la Fauneportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Vancouver Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Conservation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cocks Family FoundationlocalBC · funds 5 organizations near you
- Comox Valley Community FoundationlocalBC · funds 21 organizations near you
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 PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 19% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE 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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY?
- PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,457,865 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA (C$3,082,770). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$4,457,865 in grants to PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE SOCIETY?
- UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA is the largest funder on record, with C$3,082,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC MARINE SCIENCE ALLIANCE 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 7 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