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ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC

ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC (Ontario) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$544,035 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$276,479). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$14M
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
C$544k
Grants received
C$11M
Net assets
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 442 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 442 teaching institutions nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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$10M) Expenses 100 (C$10M) Net assets 100 (C$4.4M)2018 Revenue 105 (C$11M) Expenses 96 (C$9.9M) Net assets 118 (C$5.2M)2019 Revenue 114 (C$12M) Expenses 104 (C$11M) Net assets 138 (C$6.1M)2020 Revenue 109 (C$11M) Expenses 95 (C$9.8M) Net assets 168 (C$7.4M)2021 Revenue 109 (C$11M) Expenses 96 (C$9.9M) Net assets 197 (C$8.7M)2022 Revenue 115 (C$12M) Expenses 102 (C$11M) Net assets 222 (C$9.8M)2023 Revenue 123 (C$13M) Expenses 115 (C$12M) Net assets 241 (C$11M)2024 Revenue 139 (C$14M) Expenses 122 (C$13M) Net assets 253 (C$11M)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (122)Net assets (253)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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 390 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$97k
’17
C$802k
’18
C$834k
’19
C$1.3M
’20
C$1.2M
’21
C$1.2M
’22
C$736k
’23
C$1.6M
’24
6.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell C$76k → C$57k.

From the CRA filings of ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC’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

ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC.

51%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 48% · 2019 45% · 2020 61% · 2021 73% · 2022 66% · 2023 34% — 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

38% of ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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

51% of ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$266k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$278k 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 13 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.

Government revenue ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2021C$314k
20
21
  • 3% of FY2021 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like ELMWOOD SCHOOL 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

14
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC?
ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC (Ontario) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$544,035 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$276,479). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$544,035 in grants to ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC?
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa is the largest funder on record, with C$276,479 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ELMWOOD SCHOOL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

Play a game about who funds Elmwood School →

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