Ontario · Registered charity
Circle of Life Charitable Foundation
Circle of Life Charitable Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$864,923 to it, the largest being TZIVOS HASHEM CANADA INC (C$285,430). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Circle of Life Charitable Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,601 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations 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.
- Toronto Chesed Foundationshared funders
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio match
- Toronto Care Fundportfolio 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.
100% of Circle of Life Charitable Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose C$18k → C$297k.
From the CRA filings of Circle of Life Charitable Foundation’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
Circle of Life Charitable Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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 Circle of Life Charitable Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 55% · 2023 84% — 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
25% of Circle of Life Charitable Foundation's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 10% 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
71% of Circle of Life Charitable Foundation's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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 10 funders put you under-funded among the 150 organizations that share them.
- Toronto Chesed Foundationshared fundersON · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toronto Care Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club International Aid Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shia Muslim Community of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blossom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- O'Brien/Jackson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rahma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Islamic Centre of Markhamportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Torontoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Belleville Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of London in Ontarioportfolio 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 Circle of Life Charitable 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
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Circle of Life Charitable Foundation?
- Circle of Life Charitable Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$864,923 to it, the largest being TZIVOS HASHEM CANADA INC (C$285,430). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Circle of Life Charitable Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 10 organizations giving C$864,923 in grants to Circle of Life Charitable Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Circle of Life Charitable Foundation?
- TZIVOS HASHEM CANADA INC is the largest funder on record, with C$285,430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Circle of Life Charitable 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 10 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