Ontario · Registered charity
Fora: Network for Change
Fora: Network for Change (Ontario) receives grants from 27 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,005,808 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$1,008,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Fora: Network for Change's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 300 educational orgs n.e.c. 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.
- Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundationshared funders
- The Counselling Foundation of Canadaportfolio match
- Inspirit 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 26% · 2019 28% · 2020 42% · 2021 36% · 2022 34% · 2023 45% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Fora: Network for Change’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 13 funders, grant income rose C$106k → C$403k.
From the CRA filings of Fora: Network for Change’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
Fora: Network for Change leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 Fora: Network for Change.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 48% · 2019 44% · 2020 41% · 2021 75% · 2022 71% · 2023 60% — 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
43% of Fora: Network for Change's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
94% of Fora: Network for Change'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$20k 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 27 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundationshared fundersON · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- The Counselling Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inspirit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cedrus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Houssian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bealight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beedie Luminaries Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bernhard Melitz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Macmillan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nancy's Very Own Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Grenadier Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tippet Foundationshared fundersON · backs 43 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 Fora: Network for Change reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 47% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Fora: Network for Change
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Questions and answers
- Who funds Fora: Network for Change?
- Fora: Network for Change (Ontario) receives grants from 27 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,005,808 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$1,008,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fora: Network for Change have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 27 organizations giving C$2,005,808 in grants to Fora: Network for Change, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fora: Network for Change?
- RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,008,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fora: Network for Change 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 27 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