Ontario · Registered charity
The Canada Ireland Foundation
The Canada Ireland Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,302,338 to it, the largest being Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock (C$531,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Canada Ireland Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities 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.
- Hal Jackman Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Shen Family Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio 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: 2021 34% · 2022 19% · 2023 15% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of The Canada Ireland Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (10% 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 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$93k → C$256k.
From the CRA filings of The Canada Ireland Foundation’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
The Canada Ireland Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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 The Canada Ireland Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 94% · 2019 52% · 2020 73% · 2021 61% · 2022 68% · 2023 39% — 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
36% of The Canada Ireland Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
82% of The Canada Ireland Foundation'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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hal Jackman Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Shen Family Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Partners in ArtlocalON · funds 9 organizations near you
- The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Murray Frum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Covell and Edwina Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The K. M. Hunter CharitablelocalON · funds 17 organizations near you
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundationshared fundersON · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- The Bennett Family Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 6 organizations near you
- Lindy Green Family FoundationlocalON · funds 10 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 The Canada Ireland Foundation reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 2% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like The Canada Ireland 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 Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
31% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Canada Ireland Foundation?
- The Canada Ireland Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,302,338 to it, the largest being Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock (C$531,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Canada Ireland Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 19 organizations giving C$1,302,338 in grants to The Canada Ireland Foundation, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Canada Ireland Foundation?
- Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock is the largest funder on record, with C$531,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Canada Ireland Foundation 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 19 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