Northwest Territories · Registered charity
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY (Northwest Territories) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$112,345 to it, the largest being THE JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF CANADA (C$112,177). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,948 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,948 community resource nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
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.
- A Dollar A Day Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Yellowknife Community Foundationlocal
- Big Wheel Community Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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: 2018 88% · 2019 95% · 2020 87% · 2021 96% · 2022 99% · 2023 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$12k → C$15k.
From the CRA filings of JOHN HOWARD 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
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Northwest Territories, across 2 regions in all.
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.
- A Dollar A Day Foundationlocalportfolio matchNL · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Yellowknife Community FoundationlocalNT · funds 15 organizations near you
- Big Wheel Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poorportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trek for Teens Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Volken Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace Church-On-The-Hillportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violenceportfolio 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.
Government revenue JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 86% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like JOHN HOWARD 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 Northwest Territories
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY?
- JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY (Northwest Territories) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$112,345 to it, the largest being THE JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF CANADA (C$112,177). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$112,345 in grants to JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY?
- THE JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$112,177 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Northwest Territories.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 3 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