Ontario · Registered charity
GRAND RIVER HEALTH
GRAND RIVER HEALTH (Ontario) receives grants from 15 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$48,075,255 to it, the largest being WATERLOO REGIONAL HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION (C$47,609,890). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GRAND RIVER HEALTH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 146 core health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 146 core health care nonprofits over $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.
- Rockway Mennonite Churchlocal
- The Hiroc Foundationportfolio match
- Paterson Family Foundation Inc.portfolio 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 81% · 2018 80% · 2019 80% · 2020 79% · 2021 81% · 2022 83% · 2023 82% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of GRAND RIVER HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% 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 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell C$8.6M → C$5.9M.
From the CRA filings of GRAND RIVER HEALTH’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
GRAND RIVER HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 GRAND RIVER HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 73% · 2019 97% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
36% of GRAND RIVER HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of GRAND RIVER HEALTH's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
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. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rockway Mennonite ChurchlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Hiroc Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paterson Family Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cardiac Health Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Premature Babies Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine / Fondation Pour L'Avancement de la Médecine Familialeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Club de L'Age D'Or le Foyer Pointe-Aux-Rochesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Markham Waterloo Mennonite Conferenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 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.
Government revenue GRAND RIVER HEALTH reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 82% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like GRAND RIVER HEALTH
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GRAND RIVER HEALTH?
- GRAND RIVER HEALTH (Ontario) receives grants from 15 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$48,075,255 to it, the largest being WATERLOO REGIONAL HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION (C$47,609,890). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND RIVER HEALTH have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 15 organizations giving C$48,075,255 in grants to GRAND RIVER HEALTH, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND RIVER HEALTH?
- WATERLOO REGIONAL HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$47,609,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND RIVER HEALTH 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 15 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