Ontario · Registered charity
FREE SPIRIT GARDENS
FREE SPIRIT GARDENS (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$19,800 to it, the largest being TD FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION (C$12,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FREE SPIRIT GARDENS's revenue fell 91% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 211 environment nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Collingwood/South Georgian Bay Rotary Charitable Foundationlocal
- Mission Community Foundationportfolio match
- Green Municipal Fundportfolio 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 26% · 2018 58% · 2020 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of FREE SPIRIT GARDENS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell C$5k → C$600.
From the CRA filings of FREE SPIRIT GARDENS’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
FREE SPIRIT GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 FREE SPIRIT GARDENS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of FREE SPIRIT GARDENS's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Collingwood/South Georgian Bay Rotary Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 15 organizations near you
- Mission Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Green Municipal Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Park People Projects Canada/Amis Des Parcs Projets Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The W. B. Wells Heritage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Big Wheel Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bulkley Valley Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reinland Mennoniten Gemeinde of Manitobaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Battle River Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Perth and District Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grand River Conservation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anglican Parish of Leeds Rearportfolio 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 FREE SPIRIT GARDENS reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 40% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FREE SPIRIT GARDENS
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FREE SPIRIT GARDENS?
- FREE SPIRIT GARDENS (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$19,800 to it, the largest being TD FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION (C$12,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREE SPIRIT GARDENS have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$19,800 in grants to FREE SPIRIT GARDENS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE SPIRIT GARDENS?
- TD FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$12,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE SPIRIT GARDENS 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 2017–2023), and the filings of 4 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