Northwest Territories · Registered charity
Food First Foundation NWT
Food First Foundation NWT (Northwest Territories) receives grants from 20 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,088,855 to it, the largest being United Way of Northwest Territories (C$296,833). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Food First Foundation NWT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,075 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,075 support of schools and education 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.
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada/Les repaires jeunesse du Canadashared funders
- Healthy Horizons Foundation Inc.portfolio match
- Breakfast for Learning Dejeuner Pour Apprendreportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 22% · 2019 96% · 2020 24% · 2021 32% · 2022 24% · 2023 60% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Food First Foundation NWT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (40% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose C$43k → C$56k.
From the CRA filings of Food First Foundation NWT’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
Food First Foundation NWT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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 Food First Foundation NWT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 54% · 2019 53% · 2020 50% · 2021 35% · 2022 39% · 2023 28% — 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
33% of Food First Foundation NWT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
Food First Foundation NWT draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Northwest Territories, across 6 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$215k 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 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada/Les repaires jeunesse du Canadashared fundersON · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Healthy Horizons Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakfast for Learning Dejeuner Pour Apprendreportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sj Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Plant a Seed & See What Grows Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Nutrition Council of Manitoba Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yellowknife Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Securityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation / L'Institut Jane Goodall Pour la Recherche L'Education Et la Conservation de la Fauneportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Endswell 2021 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Daily Bread Food Bankshared fundersON · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
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 Food First Foundation NWT reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 9% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Food First Foundation NWT
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 Northwest Territories
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 Food First Foundation NWT?
- Food First Foundation NWT (Northwest Territories) receives grants from 20 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,088,855 to it, the largest being United Way of Northwest Territories (C$296,833). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Food First Foundation NWT have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 20 organizations giving C$1,088,855 in grants to Food First Foundation NWT, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Food First Foundation NWT?
- United Way of Northwest Territories is the largest funder on record, with C$296,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Food First Foundation NWT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Northwest Territories.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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