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LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES
LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES (Ontario) receives grants from 163 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,120,659 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$311,850). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$11M
- Funders on record
- 163
- Grants received
- C$4.1M
- Net assets
- C$31M
What Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides/Fondation Des Lions Ducanada Chien-Guides does
Ongoing programs
Operation of a dog guides school providing service dogs to Canadians with visual hearing medical disabilities epilepsy autism and diabetes at no cost. Provide support dog guides to professional agencies at no cost to offer support to individuals in traumatic situations.
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 2023 to 2024, from C$31M to C$54M (+73%).
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.
75% of LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (56% 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 broadened from 38 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose C$241k → C$894k.
From the CRA filings of LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 163 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
LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 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 LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 15% · 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 8% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% — 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
35% of LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
79% of LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES'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$818k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES has grown faster than half of the 362 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 362 foundations nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES?
- LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES (Ontario) receives grants from 163 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,120,659 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$311,850). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 163 organizations giving C$4,120,659 in grants to LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES?
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$311,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES/FONDATION DES LIONS DUCANADA CHIEN-GUIDES 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 163 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