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CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES

CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$75,727 to it, the largest being TORONTO FOUNDATION (C$40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$3.7M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
C$76k
Net assets
C$1.1M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Canadian Accredited Independent Schools/Ecoles Independantescanadiennes Acreditees does

Ongoing programs

Cais is a national network for member schools supporting collaborative initiatives in leadership education management and governance its activities are establishing national standards / best practices and accreditation process organizing coordinating and facilitating conferences benchmarking research and marketing.

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$2.5M) Expenses 100 (C$2.4M) Net assets 100 (C$964k)2018 Revenue 101 (C$2.6M) Expenses 98 (C$2.3M) Net assets 125 (C$1.2M)2019 Revenue 104 (C$2.7M) Expenses 110 (C$2.6M) Net assets 131 (C$1.3M)2020 Revenue 95 (C$2.4M) Expenses 107 (C$2.5M) Net assets 117 (C$1.1M)2021 Revenue 92 (C$2.3M) Expenses 96 (C$2.3M) Net assets 123 (C$1.2M)2022 Revenue 84 (C$2.1M) Expenses 96 (C$2.3M) Net assets 109 (C$1.1M)2023 Revenue 121 (C$3.1M) Expenses 136 (C$3.2M) Net assets 92 (C$887k)2024 Revenue 147 (C$3.7M) Expenses 150 (C$3.6M) Net assets 111 (C$1.1M)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (150)Net assets (111)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from C$1.2M to C$1.7M (+41%).

C$1.4M
C$1.8M
C$1.9M
C$1.4M
C$1.4M
C$1.2M
C$1.2M
C$1.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 7% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (34% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 355 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$166k
’17
C$244k
’18
C$52k
’19
−C$127k
’20
C$56k
’21
−C$136k
’22
−C$166k
’23
C$181k
’24
3.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2017201820192020202220232024
Listed22182223222024
Joined·+5+6+5·+3+6
No longer listed·924·52
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$25k → C$25k.

Funder
'19
'20
'23
total
Toronto Foundationunclassified
C$40k
C$25k
Pickering Collegeunclassified
C$20
funders
1
2
2

From the CRA filings of CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES’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

CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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 CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES.

53%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 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

67% of CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’20
’23
Ontario out of province

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 388 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 388 support of schools and education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government revenue CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2021C$85k
17
18
19
20
21
  • 4% of FY2021 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

24
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES?
CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$75,727 to it, the largest being TORONTO FOUNDATION (C$40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$75,727 in grants to CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES?
TORONTO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CANADIAN ACCREDITED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS/ECOLES INDEPENDANTESCANADIENNES ACREDITEES 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 4 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register