Ontario · Registered charity
A Better Tent City Waterloo Region
A Better Tent City Waterloo Region (Ontario) receives grants from 33 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$400,635 to it, the largest being SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CENTRE WATERLOO REGION (C$119,664). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
A Better Tent City Waterloo Region has grown faster than half of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
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.
- The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloolocalportfolio match
- Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waterloolocalportfolio match
- Parkminster United Churchlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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: 2022 54% · 2023 43% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of A Better Tent City Waterloo Region’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. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$23k → C$166k.
From the CRA filings of A Better Tent City Waterloo Region’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
A Better Tent City Waterloo Region leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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 A Better Tent City Waterloo Region.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 44% · 2023 51% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of A Better Tent City Waterloo Region's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$102k 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 33 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloolocalportfolio matchON · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waterloolocalportfolio matchON · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Parkminster United ChurchlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Food Bank of Waterloo Regionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emmanuel United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breslau Mennonite Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Matthews (Kitchener) Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church KitchenerlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Zonta Club Kitchener-Waterloo Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Astley Family Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 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 A Better Tent City Waterloo Region reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 56% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like A Better Tent City Waterloo Region
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.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds A Better Tent City Waterloo Region?
- A Better Tent City Waterloo Region (Ontario) receives grants from 33 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$400,635 to it, the largest being SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CENTRE WATERLOO REGION (C$119,664). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A Better Tent City Waterloo Region have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 33 organizations giving C$400,635 in grants to A Better Tent City Waterloo Region, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A Better Tent City Waterloo Region?
- SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CENTRE WATERLOO REGION is the largest funder on record, with C$119,664 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A Better Tent City Waterloo Region find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 33 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