Ontario · Registered charity
GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION
GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 1 organization whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$108,100 to it, the largest being CONAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$108,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 362 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 362 foundations nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Leah and Paul Atkinson Family Foundationlocal
- Timothy Foundationportfolio match
- Giancarlo and Odette Tognetti Legacy Trust 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.
85% of GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (56% 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the CRA filings of GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
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.
- Leah and Paul Atkinson Family FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Timothy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Giancarlo and Odette Tognetti Legacy Trust Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Moses & Temara Tobe Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sharp Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zlc Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rethink Charity Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ciro and Caterina Gucciardi Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacqui Cohen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trinity Pacific Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Naomi and Gerald Goldenberg and Family Charitable Foundationportfolio 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 GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION?
- GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 1 organization whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$108,100 to it, the largest being CONAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$108,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 1 organization giving C$108,100 in grants to GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION?
- CONAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$108,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGE AND HELEN VARI FOUNDATION 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 1 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