Manitoba · Registered charity
Gowns for Grads Inc.
Gowns for Grads Inc. (Manitoba) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$16,518 to it, the largest being THE WINNIPEG FOUNDATION (C$5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Gowns for Grads Inc. runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,008 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,008 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.shared funderslocal
- Timothy Foundationportfolio match
- Trotter Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
100% of Gowns for Grads Inc.’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$5k → C$6k.
From the CRA filings of Gowns for Grads 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
Gowns for Grads Inc. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 Gowns for Grads Inc..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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
87% of Gowns for Grads Inc.'s grant income comes from Manitoba funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$5k 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 400 organizations that share them.
- Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.shared funderslocalMB · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you
- Timothy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trotter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Collingwood/South Georgian Bay Rotary Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- BIG Hearts Canada Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sault Ste. Marie Rotary Club Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Platinum Jets Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toronto East Rotary Club Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canerector Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Life Community Church - Grand Bendportfolio 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 Gowns for Grads 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Questions and answers
- Who funds Gowns for Grads Inc.?
- Gowns for Grads Inc. (Manitoba) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$16,518 to it, the largest being THE WINNIPEG FOUNDATION (C$5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gowns for Grads Inc. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$16,518 in grants to Gowns for Grads Inc., 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gowns for Grads Inc.?
- THE WINNIPEG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gowns for Grads 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 2019–2024), 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