Ontario · Registered charity
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (Ontario) receives grants from 37 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,566,377 to it, the largest being THE BALSILLIE FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$305,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Clergy Support Memorial Churchlocalportfolio match
- Donner Canadian Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Elpida Autism Foundationlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose C$8k → C$245k.
From the CRA filings of The Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 Civil Liberties Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 Civil Liberties Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 34% · 2020 23% · 2021 29% · 2022 44% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of The Canadian Civil Liberties Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
92% of The Canadian Civil Liberties Association'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$91k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Clergy Support Memorial Churchlocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Donner Canadian Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Elpida Autism FoundationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- N.A. Taylor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bfmi Sesquicentennial Trust (2017)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Friends Service Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Esther and Bernard Besner Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Esther Et Bernard Besnerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Canadian Bar Law for the Future Fund/Le Fonds Du Barreaucanadien Pour le Droit de Demainportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Macmillan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fonds pour la démocratie Matthew R. Scanlan Democracy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Diane and Daryl Howard Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- View West Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Civil Liberties Association reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like The Canadian Civil Liberties Association
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Canadian Civil Liberties Association?
- The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (Ontario) receives grants from 37 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,566,377 to it, the largest being THE BALSILLIE FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$305,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Canadian Civil Liberties Association have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 37 organizations giving C$1,566,377 in grants to The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Canadian Civil Liberties Association?
- THE BALSILLIE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Canadian Civil Liberties Association 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 37 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