Ontario · Registered charity
BRUCE HOUSE
BRUCE HOUSE (Ontario) receives grants from 24 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,245,668 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$360,165). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BRUCE HOUSE runs a healthier operating margin 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 Ottawa Masonic Corporationlocalportfolio match
- St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Churchlocal
- The OutCare Foundation/La Fondation OutCareportfolio 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 53% · 2018 52% · 2019 50% · 2020 50% · 2021 51% · 2022 53% · 2023 49% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of BRUCE 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$137k → C$185k.
From the CRA filings of BRUCE HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
BRUCE HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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 BRUCE HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 41% · 2019 44% · 2020 49% · 2021 38% · 2022 33% · 2023 42% — 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
67% of BRUCE HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
97% of BRUCE 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. C$363k 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 24 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Ottawa Masonic Corporationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran ChurchlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- The OutCare Foundation/La Fondation OutCareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pride and Remembrance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abbey of the Long Cedar Canoe Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Columbus Club - Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Walter and Friedl Stenger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Paul's Foundation (Edmonton)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Joan and Jim Patterson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stephen and Jocelyne Greenberg Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rideau Park United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Matt Foundationshared fundersON · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
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 BRUCE HOUSE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 53% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BRUCE 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.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BRUCE HOUSE?
- BRUCE HOUSE (Ontario) receives grants from 24 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,245,668 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$360,165). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRUCE HOUSE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 24 organizations giving C$1,245,668 in grants to BRUCE HOUSE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRUCE HOUSE?
- Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa is the largest funder on record, with C$360,165 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRUCE 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 24 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