Ontario · Registered charity
Hit The Ground Running
Hit The Ground Running (Ontario) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$36,176 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$19,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Hit The Ground Running has grown faster than three-quarters of the 857 supportive health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 857 supportive health care 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.
- Celebration! Church Ottawalocal
- The Peterson Foundationportfolio match
- The Teslia and Turner Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
100% of Hit The Ground Running’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$5k → C$8k.
From the CRA filings of Hit The Ground Running’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
Hit The Ground Running leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 Hit The Ground Running.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 88% — 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
53% of Hit The Ground Running'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$17k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Ontario, across 4 regions.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$19k 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Celebration! Church OttawalocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Peterson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Teslia and Turner Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Four Oaks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sapna Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aston Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Buzz and Vicki Green Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acorn Seed Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Monks Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nelson Arthur Hyland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Egan Family Foundationportfolio 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 Hit The Ground Running
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Hit The Ground Running?
- Hit The Ground Running (Ontario) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$36,176 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$19,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Hit The Ground Running have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$36,176 in grants to Hit The Ground Running, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hit The Ground Running?
- Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa is the largest funder on record, with C$19,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hit The Ground Running 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 6 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