Quebec · Registered charity
Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal
Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal (Quebec) receives grants from 86 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$23,009,043 to it, the largest being Fondation Marcelle et Jean Coutu (C$5,937,500). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal has grown faster than half of the 1,601 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Eglise la Chapellelocal
- Fondation Michaudportfolio match
- Fondation Norman Fortierportfolio 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.
99% of Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose C$348k → C$6.6M.
From the CRA filings of Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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 Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 35% · 2019 32% · 2020 46% · 2021 31% · 2022 36% · 2023 38% — 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
44% of Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
95% of Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal's grant income comes from Quebec funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$148k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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 86 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Eglise la ChapellelocalQC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Fondation Michaudportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Norman Fortierportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation K.M.P. Follaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marchab Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Jean-Luc Gravel Et Brigitte Bretonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Altru Foundation Inc.shared funderslocalQC · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 2 organizations near you
- Fondation J-Louis Lévesqueshared funderslocalQC · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 2 organizations near you
- Fondation Inter EcholocalQC · funds 3 organizations near you
- The George Hogg Family Foundationshared fundersQC · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- Fondation Famille Légershared fundersQC · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
- Fondation Ariane Riou & Réal Plourdeshared funderslocalQC · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 2 organizations near you
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 Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 0% of FY2022 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal
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 Quebec
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal?
- Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal (Quebec) receives grants from 86 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$23,009,043 to it, the largest being Fondation Marcelle et Jean Coutu (C$5,937,500). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 86 organizations giving C$23,009,043 in grants to Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal?
- Fondation Marcelle et Jean Coutu is the largest funder on record, with C$5,937,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Giant steps foundation-Montreal La Fondation à pas de géant-Montréal find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Quebec.
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 86 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