Ontario · Registered charity
Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills
Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$150,838 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$92,667). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,881 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource 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.
- Harry E Foster Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The United Way of Peel Regionlocalportfolio match
- Rotary Club of Bolton Charitable Trustlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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: 2023 5% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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 Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills’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
Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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 Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills.
“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
61% of Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$58k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ontario funders.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$93k 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.
- Harry E Foster Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The United Way of Peel Regionlocalportfolio matchON · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Bolton Charitable TrustlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helpage Canada - / Aide Aux Aînes (Canada)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ontario Caregiver Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Home Instead Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Georgina Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Literacy Association of Nova Scotiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aberdeen Health and Community Services Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marion Ethel Kamm and Frederick John Kamm Charitable Trustportfolio 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.
Government revenue Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 9% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills?
- Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$150,838 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$92,667). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$150,838 in grants to Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills?
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$92,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 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