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CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER (Ontario) receives grants from 1534 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$114,143,989 to it, the largest being PayPal Giving Fund Canada (C$17,988,976). 870 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$181M
- Funders on record
- 1,534
- Grants received
- C$114M
- Net assets
- C$169M
What Canadian Cancer Society - Société Canadienne Du Cancer does
Ongoing programs
The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all types of cancer. Together with patients supporters donors and volunteers we work to create a healthier future for everyone. Because to take on cancer it takes all of us. It takes a society.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from C$137M to C$182M (+33%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 21% · 2022 14% · 2023 11% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% 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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 643 funders to 537 funders, grant income rose C$8.6M → C$20M.
From the CRA filings of CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1534 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
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 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 CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 21% · 2019 15% · 2020 17% · 2021 22% · 2022 13% · 2023 26% — broadly stable.
“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
34% of CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER'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
59% of CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER'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$4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 146 core health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 146 core health care nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government revenue CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 11% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER?
- CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER (Ontario) receives grants from 1534 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$114,143,989 to it, the largest being PayPal Giving Fund Canada (C$17,988,976). 870 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 1534 organizations giving C$114,143,989 in grants to CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER, 870 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER?
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$17,988,976 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1534 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register