Ontario · Registered charity
Illuminating Lights Foundation
Illuminating Lights Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$18,343 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$12,343). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Illuminating Lights Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,910 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,910 support of schools and education 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.
- Muslim Neighbour Nexusshared funders
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio match
- HBNG Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 Illuminating Lights Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
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 Illuminating Lights Foundation’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
Illuminating Lights Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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 Illuminating Lights Foundation.
“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
Illuminating Lights Foundation draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 2 regions in all.
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.
- Muslim Neighbour Nexusshared fundersON · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- HBNG Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rethink Charity Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Timothy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cadence Cares Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Triercon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Joshua Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ricky and Peter Cohen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Henry and Sylvia Waks Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Odette Kaye Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sef 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 Illuminating Lights Foundation
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 Illuminating Lights Foundation?
- Illuminating Lights Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$18,343 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$12,343). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Illuminating Lights Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$18,343 in grants to Illuminating Lights Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Illuminating Lights Foundation?
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne is the largest funder on record, with C$12,343 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Illuminating Lights Foundation 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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