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Karis Community Initiatives

Karis Community Initiatives (Ontario) receives grants from 66 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,803,668 to it, the largest being KARIS DISABILITY SERVICES (C$636,862). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$2.6M
Revenue FY2024
66
Funders on record
C$1.8M
Grants received
C$5.7M
Net assets
42/66 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%

Against its field

Karis Community Initiatives holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 550 support of religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve26.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 support of religion 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$3.0M) Expenses 100 (C$2.6M) Net assets 100 (C$1.6M)2018 Revenue 88 (C$2.6M) Expenses 78 (C$2.0M) Net assets 138 (C$2.2M)2019 Revenue 86 (C$2.6M) Expenses 86 (C$2.2M) Net assets 153 (C$2.4M)2020 Revenue 110 (C$3.3M) Expenses 93 (C$2.4M) Net assets 221 (C$3.5M)2021 Revenue 97 (C$2.9M) Expenses 75 (C$1.9M) Net assets 283 (C$4.4M)2022 Revenue 121 (C$3.6M) Expenses 101 (C$2.6M) Net assets 350 (C$5.5M)2023 Revenue 119 (C$3.6M) Expenses 143 (C$3.7M) Net assets 383 (C$6.0M)2024 Revenue 89 (C$2.6M) Expenses 123 (C$3.2M) Net assets 359 (C$5.7M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (89)Expenses (123)Net assets (359)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

21% of Karis Community Initiatives’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 514 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$383k
’17
C$585k
’18
C$329k
’19
C$870k
’20
C$964k
’21
C$972k
’22
−C$161k
’23
−C$544k
’24
27
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 33 funders, grant income fell C$136k → C$100k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$637k
C$263k
C$33k
C$26k
C$17k
C$12k
C$10k
C$8k
C$7k
C$7k
Abundance Canadaunclassified
C$3k
funders
27
25
32
30
27
28
33
30

From the CRA filings of Karis Community Initiatives’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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

Karis Community Initiatives leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Karis Community Initiatives.

35%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 43% · 2019 68% · 2020 58% · 2021 42% · 2022 85% · 2023 50% — 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

52% of Karis Community Initiatives's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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

99% of Karis Community Initiatives's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$19k 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.

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 66 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 Karis Community Initiatives reports

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

FY2017C$2k
  • 0% of FY2017 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 1%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds Karis Community Initiatives?
Karis Community Initiatives (Ontario) receives grants from 66 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,803,668 to it, the largest being KARIS DISABILITY SERVICES (C$636,862). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Karis Community Initiatives have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 66 organizations giving C$1,803,668 in grants to Karis Community Initiatives, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Karis Community Initiatives?
KARIS DISABILITY SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with C$636,862 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Karis Community Initiatives 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 66 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