Ontario · Registered charity
CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (Ontario) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,899,366 to it, the largest being HUNTER FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$2,277,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
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.
- The Lewitt Family Foundationlocal
- Ivey Foundationportfolio match
- Salal Foundationportfolio 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.
78% of CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$100k → C$896k.
From the CRA filings of CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT’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
CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 55% · 2022 70% · 2023 70% — 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
33% of CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 4 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$23k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Lewitt Family FoundationlocalON · funds 10 organizations near you
- Ivey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Salal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Economy Fundportfolio 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
- Pirie Foundation Non-Profit Priv Assoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Macmillan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Externalitator Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loran Scholars Foundation / Fondation Boursiers Loranportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- N.A. Taylor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Panicaro Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The David Suzuki 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.
Organizations like CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT?
- CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (Ontario) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,899,366 to it, the largest being HUNTER FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$2,277,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 18 organizations giving C$3,899,366 in grants to CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT?
- HUNTER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$2,277,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 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 18 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