Ontario · Registered charity
HOMES FIRST SOCIETY
HOMES FIRST SOCIETY (Ontario) receives grants from 28 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,250,102 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO (C$1,201,108). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HOMES FIRST SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $10M–$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.
- Card for Changelocalportfolio match
- Tippet Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- P. and L. Odette Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio 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 80% · 2018 86% · 2019 90% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 96% · 2023 95% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of HOMES FIRST SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (2% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell C$207k → C$145k.
From the CRA filings of HOMES FIRST SOCIETY’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
HOMES FIRST SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 HOMES FIRST SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 60% · 2021 69% · 2022 43% · 2023 84% — 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
20% of HOMES FIRST SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
96% of HOMES FIRST SOCIETY'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 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Card for Changelocalportfolio matchON · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tippet Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- P. and L. Odette Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Providence Healthcare FoundationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Greater Toronto Apartment Association Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- C3 Church 416 Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Diaper Bank of Torontoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Felix Y. Manalo Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St. Andrew's Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M.E.H. Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Lung AssociationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Jordan and Lynne Elliott Family FoundationlocalON · 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 HOMES FIRST SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 95% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like HOMES FIRST SOCIETY
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds HOMES FIRST SOCIETY?
- HOMES FIRST SOCIETY (Ontario) receives grants from 28 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,250,102 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO (C$1,201,108). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOMES FIRST SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 28 organizations giving C$2,250,102 in grants to HOMES FIRST SOCIETY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMES FIRST SOCIETY?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO is the largest funder on record, with C$1,201,108 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMES FIRST SOCIETY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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