Ontario · Registered charity
TELLING TALES
TELLING TALES (Ontario) receives grants from 27 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,032,966 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$302,866). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TELLING TALES has grown faster than half of the 1,075 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,075 support of schools and education 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.
- Incite Foundation for the Artsshared fundersportfolio match
- Hamilton Presbytery Mission Council of the United Church Oflocal
- Charity of Hopeportfolio 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 19% · 2018 35% · 2019 43% · 2020 56% · 2021 50% · 2022 66% · 2023 46% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of TELLING TALES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (40% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose C$2k → C$209k.
Left out of every figure on this page: C$30k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Telling Tales). These are real filings, and they are not money TELLING TALES raised.
From the CRA filings of TELLING TALES’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
TELLING TALES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 65%; 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 TELLING TALES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 46% · 2020 41% · 2021 49% · 2022 71% · 2023 48% — 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
47% of TELLING TALES'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
85% of TELLING TALES'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$337k 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 27 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Incite Foundation for the Artsshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hamilton Presbytery Mission Council of the United Church OflocalON · funds 11 organizations near you
- Charity of Hopeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustprportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gwd Foundation for Kidsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Art Gallery of Hamiltonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick Ltd.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Excellence in Literacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hamilton Food Shareshared fundersON · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Beamsville Church of ChristlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Hultink Family FoundationlocalON · funds 11 organizations near you
- Waterdown Pastoral Charge St James United ChurchlocalON · funds 4 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 TELLING TALES reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 36% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like TELLING TALES
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds TELLING TALES?
- TELLING TALES (Ontario) receives grants from 27 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,032,966 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$302,866). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TELLING TALES have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 27 organizations giving C$1,032,966 in grants to TELLING TALES, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TELLING TALES?
- HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$302,866 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TELLING TALES 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 27 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