Manitoba · Registered charity
THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC
THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC (Manitoba) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,999,796 to it, the largest being HUNTER FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$670,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 75 research nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 75 research 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.
- Max Bell Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Prairie Spirit United Churchlocal
- Ivey Foundationportfolio 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 THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose C$96k → C$353k.
From the CRA filings of THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY 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
THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 70% · 2019 28% · 2020 39% · 2021 26% · 2022 48% · 2023 57% — 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
50% of THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Manitoba, across 6 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$2k 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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Max Bell Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Prairie Spirit United ChurchlocalMB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Ivey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Salal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Economy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bfmi Sesquicentennial Trust (2017)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Externalitator Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mindset Social Innovation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St John Brebeuf ParishlocalMB · funds 2 organizations near you
- St Bede's ChurchlocalMB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Avonlea United ChurchlocalMB · 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.
Organizations like THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY 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 Manitoba
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC?
- THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC (Manitoba) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,999,796 to it, the largest being HUNTER FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$670,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 19 organizations giving C$1,999,796 in grants to THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC?
- HUNTER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$670,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Manitoba.
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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 19 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