Ontario · Registered charity
DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC.
DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$511,072 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY NIAGARA (C$417,090). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC.'s revenue fell 33% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 Branscombe Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Wise Guys Charity Fundshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Ctfs Employees' Charity Trustlocalportfolio 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 85% · 2018 76% · 2019 72% · 2020 70% · 2021 77% · 2022 82% · 2023 79% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC.’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% 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 narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell C$128k → C$121k.
From the CRA filings of DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC.’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 78% · 2019 90% · 2020 99% · 2021 95% · 2022 98% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
100% of DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC.'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$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. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Branscombe Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wise Guys Charity Fundshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ctfs Employees' Charity Trustlocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bethesda Foundation Inc.localON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis Club of St Catharines Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MOOD DISORDERS SOCIETY OF CANADA La Societe Pour Les Troubles de L'Humeur du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The River Realty Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A Dollar A Day Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stamford Lane United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- District School Board of NiagaralocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
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 DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 66% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC.
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC.?
- DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$511,072 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY NIAGARA (C$417,090). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$511,072 in grants to DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC., 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC.?
- UNITED WAY NIAGARA is the largest funder on record, with C$417,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISTRESS CENTRE OF NIAGARA INC. 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 11 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