Ontario · Registered charity
ALPHA HOUSE
ALPHA HOUSE (Ontario) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$266,486 to it, the largest being DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK (C$85,934). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ALPHA HOUSE has grown faster than half of the 947 core health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 947 core health care 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.
- Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canadashared fundersportfolio match
- Metropolitan Community Church of Torontolocal
- A Dollar A Day Foundationportfolio 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 94% · 2018 75% · 2019 61% · 2020 82% · 2021 82% · 2022 88% · 2023 72% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of ALPHA HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$4k → C$47k.
From the CRA filings of ALPHA HOUSE’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
ALPHA HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 ALPHA HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 48% · 2019 49% · 2020 36% · 2021 32% · 2022 76% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
54% of ALPHA HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
89% of ALPHA HOUSE's grant income comes from Ontario 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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canadashared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Metropolitan Community Church of TorontolocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- A Dollar A Day Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Homeless Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wagner Hills Farm Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Douglas Utting Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Paul's Foundation (Edmonton)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- British Columbia Masonic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Realtors Shelter Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raising the Roof Chez Toitportfolio 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 ALPHA HOUSE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 94% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ALPHA HOUSE
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALPHA HOUSE?
- ALPHA HOUSE (Ontario) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$266,486 to it, the largest being DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK (C$85,934). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALPHA HOUSE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$266,486 in grants to ALPHA HOUSE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALPHA HOUSE?
- DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK is the largest funder on record, with C$85,934 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALPHA HOUSE 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 14 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