Ontario · Registered charity
LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE
LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE (Ontario) receives grants from 68 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$12,638,500 to it, the largest being THE TROTTIER FAMILY FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION FAMILIALE TROTTIER (C$4,850,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$13M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- C$13M
- Net assets
- C$1.7M
What Let's Talk Science/Parlons Science does
Ongoing programs
Let’s Talk Science is a national charitable organization that helps children and youth fulfill their potential and prepare for their future careers and role as citizens in a rapidly changing world by supporting their learning and engagement through science technology engineering and mathematics ('STEM'). The organization offers many programs services and resources that help youth develop positive attitudes critical skills and career awareness and it connects the STEM and education communities to strengthen learning. Let’s Talk Science engages diverse audiences including preschool through high school youth and educators post-secondary and industry-based volunteers and community organizations to make STEM engagement relevant. Programming is available in English and French in person and online in alignment with education curricula across Canada. The organization is supported by universities colleges governments industry foundations and individuals.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from C$3.3M to C$7.2M (+118%).
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 51% · 2018 58% · 2019 49% · 2020 54% · 2021 57% · 2022 64% · 2023 69% · 2024 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% 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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 21 funders, grant income rose C$1.1M → C$1.9M.
From the CRA filings of LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 67%; 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 LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 32% · 2021 47% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — 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
31% of LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
50% of LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE'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$424k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 regions 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.
Against its field
LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE has grown faster than half of the 442 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 442 teaching institutions nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government revenue LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 62% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE?
- LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE (Ontario) receives grants from 68 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$12,638,500 to it, the largest being THE TROTTIER FAMILY FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION FAMILIALE TROTTIER (C$4,850,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 68 organizations giving C$12,638,500 in grants to LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE?
- THE TROTTIER FAMILY FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION FAMILIALE TROTTIER is the largest funder on record, with C$4,850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LET'S TALK SCIENCE/PARLONS SCIENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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 68 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