Ontario · Registered charity
LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON
LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$9,432 to it, the largest being THE EARL B. CONNELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$6,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Financial Discipleship Canadalocal
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio match
- The Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
8% of LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell C$4k → C$96.
From the CRA filings of LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON’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
LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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 LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
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.
- Financial Discipleship CanadalocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scottish Rite Club of Victoria District Endowment Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Simcoe County Paramedic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food for Life Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David McAntony Gibson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hamilton Food Shareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AMA Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sperowayportfolio 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.
Organizations like LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Questions and answers
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON?
- LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$9,432 to it, the largest being THE EARL B. CONNELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$6,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$9,432 in grants to LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON?
- THE EARL B. CONNELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOAVES AND FISHES FUND OF OTTAWA-CARLETON 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 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