Ontario · Registered charity
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA (Ontario) receives grants from 62 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$57,132,773 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$22,295,500). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- The Houssian Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Salal Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Ivey Foundationshared funders
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 63% · 2018 36% · 2019 26% · 2020 92% · 2021 82% · 2022 86% · 2023 92% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (2% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 23 funders, grant income fell C$4.4M → C$1.2M.
From the CRA filings of COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 69%; 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 57% · 2019 65% · 2020 24% · 2021 24% · 2022 26% · 2023 13% — 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
35% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
52% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA'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$1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 62 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Houssian Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Salal Foundationlocalportfolio matchBC · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ivey Foundationshared fundersON · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Balsam Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rosutec Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dragonfly Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Externalitator Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regent Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loran Scholars Foundation / Fondation Boursiers Loranportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Madan and Raksha M Bhayana Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Samuel Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chisholm Thomson Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 37% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA (Ontario) receives grants from 62 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$57,132,773 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$22,295,500). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 62 organizations giving C$57,132,773 in grants to COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$22,295,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA 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 62 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