Ontario · Registered charity
Literal Change
Literal Change (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$635,735 to it, the largest being LAIDLAW FOUNDATION (C$199,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Literal Change has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,075 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,075 support of schools and education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- The Kinsmen Club of Lindsay Foundationlocal
- The Excellence in Literacy Foundationportfolio match
- The Maytree 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 42% · 2019 27% · 2020 4% · 2021 0% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Literal Change’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (40% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$100k → C$114k.
From the CRA filings of Literal Change’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
Literal Change leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 Literal Change.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 50% · 2022 54% · 2023 53% — 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
17% of Literal Change's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
71% of Literal Change'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$2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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.
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. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Kinsmen Club of Lindsay FoundationlocalON · funds 17 organizations near you
- The Excellence in Literacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Maytree Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation - Fondation Canadienne Des Relations Racialesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Traquair Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meaningful Work Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sonor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Johansen-Larsen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gandy Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Books Over Borders Livres Transfrontièresportfolio 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 Literal Change reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 0% of FY2022 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Literal Change
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Literal Change?
- Literal Change (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$635,735 to it, the largest being LAIDLAW FOUNDATION (C$199,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Literal Change have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$635,735 in grants to Literal Change, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Literal Change?
- LAIDLAW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$199,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Literal Change 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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