Ontario · Registered charity
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO (Ontario) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$107,569 to it, the largest being THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (C$58,133). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 857 supportive health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 857 supportive health care nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Christian Reformed Church of Brampton Ontariolocal
- The Ontario Caregiver Organizationportfolio match
- Brampton and Caledon Community Foundationlocal
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: 2022 92% · 2023 78% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 8 funders, grant income rose C$3k → C$14k.
From the CRA filings of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO’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
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 39% · 2019 36% · 2020 91% · 2021 78% · 2022 97% · 2023 36% — 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
25% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 3 regions in all.
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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Christian Reformed Church of Brampton OntariolocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- The Ontario Caregiver Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brampton and Caledon Community FoundationlocalON · funds 8 organizations near you
- Goodlife Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Autism Speaks Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Federated Health Charities Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unity for Autismportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Steel Car Limited Employees Charitable Donation Funportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sinneave Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry E Foster Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toronto Fire Fighters Charities Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Durham Regionportfolio 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 46% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO?
- DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO (Ontario) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$107,569 to it, the largest being THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (C$58,133). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$107,569 in grants to DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO?
- THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE is the largest funder on record, with C$58,133 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO 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 13 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