Ontario · Registered charity
FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC.
FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$274,500 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$165,876). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC. has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,180 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,180 public amenities 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.
- Gill Ratcliffe Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- John M. & Bernice Parrott Foundation Inc.shared fundersportfolio match
- The Davies Charitable Foundation Incshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
95% of FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC.’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (28% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose C$10k → C$44k.
From the CRA filings of FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC.’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 THE SPIRE INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 THE SPIRE INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 59% · 2020 77% · 2021 66% · 2022 38% · 2023 54% — 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 THE SPIRE INC.'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$53k 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 337 organizations that share them.
- Gill Ratcliffe Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- John M. & Bernice Parrott Foundation Inc.shared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Davies Charitable Foundation Incshared funderslocalON · backs 76 organizations that share your funders · funds 19 organizations near you
- National Trust for Canada / Fiducie Nationale Du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sir Thomas Cropo Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neal Memorial United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Toronto United Church Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lougheed Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Cuthberts Anglican Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The K. M. Hunter Charitableportfolio 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC.
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 FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC.?
- FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$274,500 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$165,876). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$274,500 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC., 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC.?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$165,876 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE SPIRE INC. 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 2018–2023), 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