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Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada (Ontario) receives grants from 304 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$8,389,416 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$896,740). 122 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$53M
- Funders on record
- 304
- Grants received
- C$8.4M
- Net assets
- C$38M
What Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada does
Ongoing programs
Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. We are on a quest to bring every eligible child's wish to life because a wish is an integral part of a child's treatment journey. Research shows children who have wishes granted can build the physical and emotional strength they need to fight a critical illness.
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 2020 to 2021, from C$235k to C$66M (+28211%).
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: 2020 33% · 2021 10% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada’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. 5 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 12 funders to 124 funders, grant income rose C$53k → C$2.1M.
From the CRA filings of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 304 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
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% 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 Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 63% · 2019 31% · 2020 19% · 2021 13% · 2022 19% · 2023 13% — 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
34% of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 11 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada has grown faster than three-quarters of the 73 supportive health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 73 supportive health care nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government revenue Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 0% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada?
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada (Ontario) receives grants from 304 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$8,389,416 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$896,740). 122 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 304 organizations giving C$8,389,416 in grants to Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada, 122 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada?
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$896,740 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada Fondation Rêves d'enfants Canada 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 304 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