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First Assist

First Assist (Ontario) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$259,439 to it, the largest being Senators Community Foundation / Fondation communautaire des Senateurs (C$105,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$517k
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
C$259k
Grants received
C$146k
Net assets
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%

Against its field

First Assist has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,881 community resource nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)78% · top quartile

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.

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

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 (C$92k) Expenses 100 (C$50k) Net assets 100 (C$74k)2022 Revenue 356 (C$328k) Expenses 492 (C$246k) Net assets 268 (C$198k)2023 Revenue 311 (C$286k) Expenses 555 (C$277k) Net assets 281 (C$208k)2024 Revenue 562 (C$517k) Expenses 1075 (C$536k) Net assets 197 (C$146k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (562)Expenses (1075)Net assets (197)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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

64% of First Assist’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,649 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

C$42k
’21
C$82k
’22
C$10k
’23
−C$19k
’24
3.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose C$593 → C$93k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$29k
funders
1
6
4
4

From the CRA filings of First Assist’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

First Assist leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 71%; 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 First Assist.

40%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 41% · 2023 54% — 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.

Where its funders are

79% of First Assist's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

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

’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$122k 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 7 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 First Assist

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

True North Aboriginal Partnership Inc.68%Whitefish River First Nation Community Support Organization68%True North Aid68%Water First Education and Training Inc./ L'Eau d'Abord Éducation et Formation Inc.68%Assist Group for Putting Youth in Sport67%Anishinabek Nation 7th Generation Charity67%Hockey 4 Youth Foundation/Fondation Hockey Pour Les Jeunes67%OCH Foundation for Healthy Communities/Fondation de Lco Pourdes communautés sainess66%

Nationally

First Nations Schools Association72%First Light St. John's Friendship Centre Inc.70%True North Aboriginal Partnership Inc.68%St.John Council for Manitoba Northwest Territories and Nunavut Inc68%Whitefish River First Nation Community Support Organization68%True North Aid68%St John Society (British Columbia & Yukon)68%Hockey Alberta Foundation68%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds First Assist?
First Assist (Ontario) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$259,439 to it, the largest being Senators Community Foundation / Fondation communautaire des Senateurs (C$105,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does First Assist have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$259,439 in grants to First Assist, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of First Assist?
Senators Community Foundation / Fondation communautaire des Senateurs is the largest funder on record, with C$105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like First Assist 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 First Assist →

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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