Ontario · Registered charity
Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS)
Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS) (Ontario) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$61,560 to it, the largest being Ellis Family Foundation (C$50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS) runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,119 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,119 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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 Jesuit Seminary Association (Subsidiary of the Jesuit Fathers Upper Canada)local
- Greater Toronto Apartment Association Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/Hockey Aide Les Sans-Abriportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the CRA filings of Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS)’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
Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS).
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS)'s grant income comes from Ontario funders.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$5k 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.
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.
- The Jesuit Seminary Association (Subsidiary of the Jesuit Fathers Upper Canada)localON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Greater Toronto Apartment Association Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/Hockey Aide Les Sans-Abriportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charity Treeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raising the Roof Chez Toitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Realtors Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faith United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation RONAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Big Wheel Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greene Family 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 Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 97% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS)
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
24% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS)?
- Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS) (Ontario) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$61,560 to it, the largest being Ellis Family Foundation (C$50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$61,560 in grants to Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS), 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS)?
- Ellis Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS) 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 6 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