British Columbia · Registered charity
Wonderful World of Books
Wonderful World of Books (British Columbia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$45,636 to it, the largest being PARKSVILLE - QUALICUM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$24,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Wonderful World of Books has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,910 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,910 support of schools and education 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.
- Bradley Community Centre Associationlocal
- Kimberley Foundationportfolio match
- Postmedia Network Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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: 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of Wonderful World of Books’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$5k → C$12k.
From the CRA filings of Wonderful World of Books’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
Wonderful World of Books leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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 Wonderful World of Books.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 40% · 2023 32% — 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
62% of Wonderful World of Books's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$17k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$29k 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.
- Bradley Community Centre AssociationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Kimberley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Postmedia Network Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Times Colonist Literacy Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- British Columbia Courthouse Library Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tweedledum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Decoda Literacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richardson Foundation Inc. /Fondation Richardson Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jt Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bailie Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carleton North Community 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 Wonderful World of Books reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 30% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Wonderful World of Books
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Wonderful World of Books?
- Wonderful World of Books (British Columbia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$45,636 to it, the largest being PARKSVILLE - QUALICUM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$24,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wonderful World of Books have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$45,636 in grants to Wonderful World of Books, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wonderful World of Books?
- PARKSVILLE - QUALICUM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$24,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wonderful World of Books 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 2021–2024), 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