Quebec · Registered charity
Bishop's University Foundation
Bishop's University Foundation (Quebec) receives grants from 61 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$8,621,601 to it, the largest being The Joyce Family Foundation (C$2,000,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Bishop's University Foundation's revenue fell 24% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 208 foundations advancing education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Fondation Des Gens Des Cantons de L'Est Pour la Recherche Et la Culture/Townshippers Research and Cultural Foundationlocal
- Chartered Professional Accountants' Education Foundation of British Columbiaportfolio match
- Arthur L. Irving Family 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.
53% of Bishop's University Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 33 funders, grant income fell C$2.2M → C$741k.
From the CRA filings of Bishop's University Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
Bishop's University Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 Bishop's University Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 50% · 2019 57% · 2020 18% · 2021 37% · 2022 22% · 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
56% of Bishop's University Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
Bishop's University Foundation draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Quebec, across 4 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$128k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 regions 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 61 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fondation Des Gens Des Cantons de L'Est Pour la Recherche Et la Culture/Townshippers Research and Cultural FoundationlocalQC · funds 7 organizations near you
- Chartered Professional Accountants' Education Foundation of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur L. Irving Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frederick J Hennessey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Credit Union Foundation of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Prostate Cancer Fight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Donald K. Jackson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canerector Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peter and Shelagh Godsoe Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skills for Hope Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research/Fondation Canadienne de Recherche Sur le Sidaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Scowen FoundationlocalON · 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 Bishop's University Foundation
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 Quebec
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Bishop's University Foundation?
- Bishop's University Foundation (Quebec) receives grants from 61 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$8,621,601 to it, the largest being The Joyce Family Foundation (C$2,000,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bishop's University Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 61 organizations giving C$8,621,601 in grants to Bishop's University Foundation, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bishop's University Foundation?
- The Joyce Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bishop's University Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Quebec.
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 61 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