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DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA)

DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA) (Ontario) receives grants from 30 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$877,423 to it, the largest being THE FREEBURNE BANTING FOUNDATION (C$493,914). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$484k
Revenue FY2024
30
Funders on record
C$877k
Grants received
C$626k
Net assets
21/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%

Against its field

DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA) is better cushioned than half of the 712 supportive health care nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−56% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve11.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 712 supportive health care 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$326k) Expenses 100 (C$323k) Net assets 100 (C$434k)2018 Revenue 129 (C$422k) Expenses 89 (C$288k) Net assets 130 (C$564k)2019 Revenue 95 (C$308k) Expenses 105 (C$339k) Net assets 121 (C$524k)2020 Revenue 61 (C$198k) Expenses 73 (C$235k) Net assets 113 (C$488k)2021 Revenue 116 (C$379k) Expenses 91 (C$294k) Net assets 133 (C$576k)2022 Revenue 146 (C$477k) Expenses 150 (C$483k) Net assets 142 (C$615k)2023 Revenue 185 (C$604k) Expenses 137 (C$443k) Net assets 208 (C$903k)2024 Revenue 148 (C$484k) Expenses 234 (C$755k) Net assets 144 (C$626k)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (234)Net assets (144)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

78% of DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (35% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 705 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$3k
’17
C$134k
’18
−C$31k
’19
−C$37k
’20
C$85k
’21
−C$6k
’22
C$161k
’23
−C$272k
’24
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose C$83k → C$150k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$22k
C$16k
C$15k
Wcpd Foundationunclassified
C$10k
The Bloodroot Fundunclassified
C$5k
C$3k
funders
18
14
13
11
13
20
12
12

From the CRA filings of DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA)’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

DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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 DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA).

56%
largest funder
72%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 31% · 2019 25% · 2020 27% · 2021 17% · 2022 57% · 2023 80% — 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

46% of DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

90% of DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA)'s grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$27k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA)

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 4%Fundraising 6%

Governance

17
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA)?
DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA) (Ontario) receives grants from 30 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$877,423 to it, the largest being THE FREEBURNE BANTING FOUNDATION (C$493,914). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA) have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 30 organizations giving C$877,423 in grants to DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA), 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA)?
THE FREEBURNE BANTING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$493,914 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (DEBRA CANADA) 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 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