Ontario · Registered charity
The Democracy Fund
The Democracy Fund (Ontario) receives grants from 40 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,005,346 to it, the largest being ABUNDANCE CANADA (C$507,629). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Gates of Mercylocal
- The Macmillan Family Foundationportfolio match
- Bay Tree Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 25 funders, grant income fell C$843k → C$247k.
From the CRA filings of The Democracy Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
The Democracy Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 The Democracy Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 59% · 2022 33% · 2023 41% — 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.
Where its funders are
The Democracy Fund draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 7 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$29k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 40 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Gates of MercylocalON · funds 21 organizations near you
- The Macmillan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bay Tree Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- N.A. Taylor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Haynes-Connell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Butterfield Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bfmi Sesquicentennial Trust (2017)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- View West Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mindset Social Innovation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- StoneyField 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.
Organizations like The Democracy Fund
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Democracy Fund?
- The Democracy Fund (Ontario) receives grants from 40 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,005,346 to it, the largest being ABUNDANCE CANADA (C$507,629). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Democracy Fund have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 40 organizations giving C$2,005,346 in grants to The Democracy Fund, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Democracy Fund?
- ABUNDANCE CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$507,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Democracy Fund 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 40 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