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FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS

FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$31,330 to it, the largest being THE PATERSON FOUNDATION (C$20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$3k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
C$31k
Grants received
—
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%

Against its field

FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−1264% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,910 support of schools and education 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.

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

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$10k) Expenses 100 (C$4k)2018 Revenue 136 (C$13k) Expenses 119 (C$5k)2019 Revenue 164 (C$16k) Expenses 371 (C$16k)2020 Revenue 16 (C$2k) Expenses 109 (C$5k)2021 Revenue 36 (C$3k) Expenses 35 (C$2k)2022 Revenue 372 (C$36k) Expenses 668 (C$29k)2023 Revenue 824 (C$80k) Expenses 1059 (C$46k)2024 Revenue 32 (C$3k) Expenses 958 (C$42k)
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Revenue (32)Expenses (958)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 35% · 2018 28% · 2019 82% · 2022 78% · 2023 71% · 2024 1621%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,807 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$5k
’17
C$8k
’18
−C$390
’19
−C$3k
’20
C$2k
’21
C$7k
’22
C$33k
’23
−C$39k
’24
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose C$5k → C$21k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$20k
C$6k
C$5k
funders
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
1

From the CRA filings of FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS’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

FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS 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 FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS.

64%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 51% · 2023 72% — 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

100% of FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$800 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 171 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.

Government revenue FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$50k
17
18
19
22
23
24
  • 1621% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS?
FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$31,330 to it, the largest being THE PATERSON FOUNDATION (C$20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$31,330 in grants to FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS?
THE PATERSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF GRAIN ELEVATORS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

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 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