British Columbia · Registered charity
WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY
WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$669,176 to it, the largest being THE TROTTIER FAMILY FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION FAMILIALE TROTTIER (C$200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 184 environment 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.
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Whistler Health Care Foundationlocal
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.
100% of WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (25% 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$9k → C$323k.
From the CRA filings of WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE 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
WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 92% · 2021 71% · 2022 75% · 2023 31% — 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
25% of WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
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
WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$49k 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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Whistler Health Care FoundationlocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Endswell 2021 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glasswaters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dragonfly Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Salal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Economy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Willow Grove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The David Suzuki Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rand Alexander Lomas Family FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Whistler Rotary Club FoundationlocalBC · funds 4 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.
Organizations like WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE 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 WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY?
- WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$669,176 to it, the largest being THE TROTTIER FAMILY FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION FAMILIALE TROTTIER (C$200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$669,176 in grants to WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY?
- THE TROTTIER FAMILY FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION FAMILIALE TROTTIER is the largest funder on record, with C$200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHISTLER CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE SOCIETY 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 8 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