Ontario · Registered charity
MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION
MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$16,069 to it, the largest being BenefAction Foundation (C$7,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,180 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,180 public amenities nonprofits under $100k, 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 KNOR Foundation: Local Food for Local Goodlocal
- The Phyllis Lambert Foundation/La Fondation Phyllis Lambertportfolio match
- Allen Family 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 14% · 2019 18% · 2020 57% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (28% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose C$500 → C$7k.
From the CRA filings of MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION’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
MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 91% · 2022 84% · 2023 69% — 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.
Where its funders are
78% of MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION'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.
- The KNOR Foundation: Local Food for Local GoodlocalON · funds 16 organizations near you
- The Phyllis Lambert Foundation/La Fondation Phyllis Lambertportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clarus Foundation / Fondation Clarusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Alex U. Soykaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/La Fondation Jarislowskyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation/La Fondation Canadienne Beaverbrookportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Murray Frum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hal Jackman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Butterfield Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Karen Green Charitable Trustportfolio 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 MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 12% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION?
- MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$16,069 to it, the largest being BenefAction Foundation (C$7,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$16,069 in grants to MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION?
- BenefAction Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIE DRESSLER FOUNDATION 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 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