Ontario · Registered charity
THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND
THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND (Ontario) receives grants from 72 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$314,966 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$97,196). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 879 core health care 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.
- Les Soeurs de Notre-Dame D'Auvergneshared funders
- Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Personsportfolio match
- The John A. Sanderson and Family Trustportfolio 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 3% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (6% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose C$43k → C$47k.
From the CRA filings of THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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 THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 41% · 2019 74% · 2020 39% · 2021 26% · 2022 20% · 2023 35% — 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
49% of THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND'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
THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 9 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$110k 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 72 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Les Soeurs de Notre-Dame D'Auvergneshared fundersSK · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Personsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John A. Sanderson and Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pastor Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles Norcliffe Baker and Thelma Scott Baker Foundatioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deep-Akt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hiebert Inspirational Support Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dr. Charles and Margaret Brown Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute FoundationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Chinese and Canadian Heritage Cultural AssociationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Ralph & Maureen Phillips Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barrhaven United ChurchlocalON · funds 3 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 CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND?
- THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND (Ontario) receives grants from 72 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$314,966 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$97,196). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 72 organizations giving C$314,966 in grants to THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND?
- Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa is the largest funder on record, with C$97,196 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND 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 72 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