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CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB)

CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB) (Quebec) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,219 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY EAST ONTARIO / CENTRAIDE EST DE L'ONTARIO (C$1,238). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

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Revenue FY2024
5
Funders on record
C$2k
Grants received
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Net assets
4/5 repeat funders

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$100 → C$496.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
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C$770
funders
1
4
1
3
3
2
2

From the CRA filings of CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB)’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

CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB).

56%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 55% · 2023 54% — 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.

Where its funders are

CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB) draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Quebec, across 2 regions in all.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Quebec out of province

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB)

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

Fondation des Aveugles du Québec (F.A.Q.) / Quebec Foundation for the Blind (Q.F.B.)80%Fondation de la rétine du Canada The retina foundation of Canada74%Fondation Du Glaucome Du Quebec70%Quebec Federation of the Blind Foundation69%The Canadian Breastfeeding Foundation/68%Fondation Constance Lethbridge/Constance Lethbridge Foundation68%Commonwealth Jewish Foundation of Canada/Fondation Commonwealth juive du Canada68%The CRB Foundation/La fondation CRB68%

Nationally

The Canadian Council of the Blind89%Canadian Friends of the Jewish Institute for the Blind82%The Canadian National Institute For The Blind - L'Institut national canadien pour les aveugles80%Fondation des Aveugles du Québec (F.A.Q.) / Quebec Foundation for the Blind (Q.F.B.)80%Ontario Foundation for the Korean Blind78%Fighting Blindness Canada77%Canadian Deafblind Assocation-Alberta Chapter76%Canadian Federation of the Blind76%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Governance

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board members

Questions and answers

Who funds CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB)?
CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB) (Quebec) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,219 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY EAST ONTARIO / CENTRAIDE EST DE L'ONTARIO (C$1,238). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB) have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$2,219 in grants to CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB), 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB)?
UNITED WAY EAST ONTARIO / CENTRAIDE EST DE L'ONTARIO is the largest funder on record, with C$1,238 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (CFB) find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Quebec.

Play a game about who funds Canadian Foundation for the Blind (Cfb) →

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024, and the filings of 5 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