Ontario · Registered charity
Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth
Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth (Ontario) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$619,498 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$142,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth 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.
- The Peter Gilgan Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Rotary Club of Haliburton Charitable Trustlocal
- The Yellowknife Community Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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: 2019 29% · 2021 58% · 2022 78% · 2023 51% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$2k → C$76k.
From the CRA filings of Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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
Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 99% · 2020 61% · 2021 32% · 2022 51% · 2023 78% — 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
29% of Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
70% of Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$5k 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.
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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Peter Gilgan Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 94 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Haliburton Charitable TrustlocalON · funds 11 organizations near you
- The Yellowknife Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Future Generations Foundation / la Fondation Des Generationsà Venirportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Counselling Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Makeway Charitable Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Horizons Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inspirit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taking It Global Youth Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laidlaw Foundationportfolio 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 Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 25% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth?
- Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth (Ontario) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$619,498 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$142,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 19 organizations giving C$619,498 in grants to Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth?
- RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$142,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 19 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