Ontario · Registered charity
STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING
STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING (Ontario) receives grants from 63 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,884,520 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$738,410). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING has grown faster than half 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.
- The Rotary Club of Stratford Charitable Foundationlocal
- The Rotary Club of Festival City Stratford Foundationportfolio match
- Saint John Community Christmas Exchangeportfolio 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 11% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose C$99k → C$262k.
From the CRA filings of STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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 STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 30% · 2019 31% · 2020 32% · 2021 39% · 2022 38% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“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
58% of STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
97% of STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING'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$117k 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 63 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Rotary Club of Stratford Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 7 organizations near you
- The Rotary Club of Festival City Stratford Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saint John Community Christmas Exchangeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feed Nova Scotia Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thrive Church Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Mark's Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stratford Arts FoundationlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- United Way of Perth-HuronlocalON · funds 10 organizations near you
- St James' ChurchlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Optimist Club of Stratford Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Blessings Community StorelocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival Endowment 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 STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 6% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING?
- STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING (Ontario) receives grants from 63 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,884,520 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$738,410). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 63 organizations giving C$1,884,520 in grants to STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$738,410 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING 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 63 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