Ontario · Registered charity
CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM
CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM (Ontario) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$354,054 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO (C$150,498). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource 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.
- Pine Grove Council No. 11273 Charitable Welfare Trustlocal
- Harry E Foster Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- The Ontario Caregiver Organizationportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 10% · 2019 3% · 2020 39% · 2021 34% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$15k.
From the CRA filings of CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM’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
CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% 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 CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 55% · 2019 51% · 2020 51% · 2021 82% · 2022 46% · 2023 65% — 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
45% of CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
97% of CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM'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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Pine Grove Council No. 11273 Charitable Welfare TrustlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Harry E Foster Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ontario Caregiver Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unity for Autismportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goodlife Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Charlottetown Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Els For Autism Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Georgina Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Autism Speaks Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greey-Lennox Charitable 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.
Government revenue CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 2% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM?
- CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM (Ontario) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$354,054 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO (C$150,498). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$354,054 in grants to CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO is the largest funder on record, with C$150,498 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATING ALTERNATIVES DAY PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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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 14 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