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ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC.

ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 15 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$88,950 to it, the largest being THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION OF OTTAWA-CORNWALL (C$25,725). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$114k
Revenue FY2024
15
Funders on record
C$89k
Grants received
C$41k
Net assets
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC.'s funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$169k) Expenses 100 (C$141k) Net assets 100 (C$44k)2018 Revenue 92 (C$154k) Expenses 117 (C$165k) Net assets 64 (C$28k)2019 Revenue 100 (C$170k) Expenses 103 (C$145k) Net assets 119 (C$53k)2020 Revenue 70 (C$118k) Expenses 94 (C$131k) Net assets 89 (C$40k)2021 Revenue 61 (C$103k) Expenses 72 (C$101k) Net assets 93 (C$42k)2022 Revenue 88 (C$149k) Expenses 92 (C$130k) Net assets 136 (C$61k)2023 Revenue 96 (C$163k) Expenses 111 (C$156k) Net assets 152 (C$68k)2024 Revenue 67 (C$114k) Expenses 100 (C$141k) Net assets 92 (C$41k)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (100)Net assets (92)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

38% of ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC.’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,863 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$28k
’17
−C$10k
’18
C$24k
’19
−C$13k
’20
C$2k
’21
C$19k
’22
C$7k
’23
−C$27k
’24
3.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$15k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$14k
Abundance Canadaunclassified
C$4k
First Fruits Foundationunclassified
C$2k
funders
6
9
7
8
9
8
6
7

From the CRA filings of ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC.’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. 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

ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 73%; 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 ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC..

29%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 31% · 2019 43% · 2020 52% · 2021 38% · 2022 53% · 2023 30% — 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

42% of ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC.'s grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’18
’19
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’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$26k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC. reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2021C$12k
20
21
  • 11% of FY2021 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC.

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 Ontario

Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation/Corporation de Recherches de L'Institut de Cardiologie D'Ottawa70%Ontario Public Health Association L'Association Pour la Sante Publique de L'Ontario69%Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights/Action Canada Pour la Santé Et Les Droits Sexuels69%Physical and Health Education Canada69%Ottawa Community Loan Fund/Fonds D'Emprunt Communautaire D'Ottawa69%Oxford County Right to Life Inc.69%Ottawa Carleton Lifeskills Inc69%Active Aging Canada Inc./Vieillir Activement Canada Inc.69%

Nationally

Reseau de la Sante Sexuelle Du Quebec Inc./ Sexual Health Network of Quebec Inc.71%Royal Life Saving Society Canada British Columbia and Yukon Branch And/Or la Societe Royale de Sauvetage Du Canada Division C B Et Yukon71%Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation/Corporation de Recherches de L'Institut de Cardiologie D'Ottawa70%Ontario Public Health Association L'Association Pour la Sante Publique de L'Ontario69%Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights/Action Canada Pour la Santé Et Les Droits Sexuels69%Physical and Health Education Canada69%Ottawa Community Loan Fund/Fonds D'Emprunt Communautaire D'Ottawa69%Agriculture for Life Inc.69%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 28%Fundraising 21%

Governance

8
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC.?
ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 15 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$88,950 to it, the largest being THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION OF OTTAWA-CORNWALL (C$25,725). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC. have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 15 organizations giving C$88,950 in grants to ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC., 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC.?
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION OF OTTAWA-CORNWALL is the largest funder on record, with C$25,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ACTION LIFE OTTAWA INC. find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

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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 15 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