Ontario · Registered charity
THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK
THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK (Ontario) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$358,570 to it, the largest being DRYDEN ROTARY CHARITY FOUNDATION (C$137,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Food Banks Alberta Associationshared fundersportfolio match
- Christian Light Publications of Canadalocal
- Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporationportfolio 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.
57% of THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose C$30k → C$57k.
From the CRA filings of THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK’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
THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; 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 THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 29% · 2019 41% · 2020 36% · 2021 49% · 2022 30% · 2023 53% — 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
60% of THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
96% of THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK'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 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Food Banks Alberta Associationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Christian Light Publications of CanadalocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feed Nova Scotia Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Simcoe County Paramedic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AMA Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Otter Lake Conservative Mennonnite ChurchlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Sussex Sharing Club Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David McAntony Gibson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lighthouse Church Paocportfolio 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 DRYDEN FOOD BANK
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK?
- THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK (Ontario) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$358,570 to it, the largest being DRYDEN ROTARY CHARITY FOUNDATION (C$137,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 22 organizations giving C$358,570 in grants to THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK?
- DRYDEN ROTARY CHARITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$137,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DRYDEN FOOD BANK 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 22 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