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CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND

CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND (Ontario) receives grants from 84 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,138,736 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$489,436). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$3.7M
Revenue FY2024
84
Funders on record
C$2.1M
Grants received
C$21M
Net assets
55/84 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Months of reserve17.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,019 teaching institutions 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$2.4M) Expenses 100 (C$1.9M) Net assets 100 (C$14M)2018 Revenue 114 (C$2.8M) Expenses 99 (C$1.9M) Net assets 99 (C$14M)2019 Revenue 124 (C$3.0M) Expenses 107 (C$2.1M) Net assets 105 (C$15M)2020 Revenue 197 (C$4.8M) Expenses 112 (C$2.2M) Net assets 123 (C$18M)2021 Revenue 245 (C$6.0M) Expenses 298 (C$5.7M) Net assets 131 (C$19M)2022 Revenue 173 (C$4.2M) Expenses 127 (C$2.4M) Net assets 138 (C$20M)2023 Revenue 174 (C$4.2M) Expenses 260 (C$5.0M) Net assets 133 (C$19M)2024 Revenue 150 (C$3.7M) Expenses 142 (C$2.7M) Net assets 145 (C$21M)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (142)Net assets (145)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 0% · 2020 5% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

65% of CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 821 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$519k
’17
C$879k
’18
C$964k
’19
C$2.6M
’20
C$259k
’21
C$1.8M
’22
−C$743k
’23
C$940k
’24
17
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose C$125k → C$514k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$489k
C$45k
C$35k
C$23k
Canada Givesunclassified
C$20k
C$17k
Toronto Foundationunclassified
C$16k
C$15k
funders
28
35
31
39
37
35
39
39

From the CRA filings of CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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 GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND.

23%
largest funder
38%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 14% · 2019 27% · 2020 14% · 2021 17% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% — 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

44% of CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

78% of CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$384k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

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. Your 84 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$9k
19
20
21
22
23
24
  • 0% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 5%Fundraising 9%

Governance

9
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND?
CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND (Ontario) receives grants from 84 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,138,736 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$489,436). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 84 organizations giving C$2,138,736 in grants to CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$489,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CANADIAN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND 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 84 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