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CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION

CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 136 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$10,178,932 to it, the largest being Thistledown Foundation (C$2,000,000). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$20M
Revenue FY2024
136
Funders on record
C$10M
Grants received
C$39M
Net assets
83/136 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%

Against its field

CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 396 core health care nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 396 core health care nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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$9.8M) Expenses 100 (C$11M) Net assets 100 (C$21M)2018 Revenue 92 (C$8.9M) Expenses 89 (C$9.6M) Net assets 93 (C$20M)2019 Revenue 108 (C$11M) Expenses 83 (C$9.0M) Net assets 97 (C$20M)2020 Revenue 100 (C$9.7M) Expenses 98 (C$11M) Net assets 93 (C$20M)2021 Revenue 148 (C$14M) Expenses 96 (C$10M) Net assets 112 (C$24M)2022 Revenue 185 (C$18M) Expenses 93 (C$10.0M) Net assets 149 (C$31M)2023 Revenue 145 (C$14M) Expenses 40 (C$4.3M) Net assets 155 (C$33M)2024 Revenue 209 (C$20M) Expenses 135 (C$15M) Net assets 183 (C$39M)
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Revenue (209)Expenses (135)Net assets (183)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: 2021 4% · 2022 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

52% of CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 338 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$1.0M
’17
−C$690k
’18
C$1.6M
’19
−C$882k
’20
C$4.1M
’21
C$8.1M
’22
C$9.9M
’23
C$5.9M
’24
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 55 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose C$1.1M → C$1.4M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$2.0M
C$469k
C$352k
Canada Givesunclassified
C$311k
Takla Foundationunclassified
C$182k
Sofina Foundationunclassified
C$127k
C$91k
C$85k
funders
55
49
48
42
48
48
49
58

From the CRA filings of CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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

CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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 CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION.

20%
largest funder
40%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 11% · 2019 17% · 2020 12% · 2021 65% · 2022 25% · 2023 22% — 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

38% of CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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

88% of CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION'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$795k 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 136 funders put you typical 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 CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION reports

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

FY2023C$8k
21
22
23
  • 0% of FY2023 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION

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

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 5%Fundraising 21%

Governance

13
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION?
CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 136 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$10,178,932 to it, the largest being Thistledown Foundation (C$2,000,000). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 136 organizations giving C$10,178,932 in grants to CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION?
Thistledown Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION 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 136 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