Ontario · Registered charity
GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre
GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre (Ontario) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$420,413 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$106,372). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- St Davids Queenston United Churchlocalportfolio match
- Stamford Lane United Churchlocalportfolio match
- Greater Hamilton Food Shareshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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: 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose C$6k → C$27k.
From the CRA filings of GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 funders by total. 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
GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 39% · 2023 73% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% 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
86% of GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre'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$3k 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 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- St Davids Queenston United Churchlocalportfolio matchON · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Stamford Lane United Churchlocalportfolio matchON · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hamilton Food Shareshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Niagara Community ChurchlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Securityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Mississaugaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David McAntony Gibson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sperowayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food for Life Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The River Realty FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Hennepin Council No 1652 Charitable TrustlocalON · funds 3 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 GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 11% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre
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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre?
- GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre (Ontario) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$420,413 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$106,372). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 17 organizations giving C$420,413 in grants to GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$106,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROW- Community Food Literacy Centre find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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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 2020–2024), and the filings of 17 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