Ontario · Registered charity
Meal Exchange
Meal Exchange (Ontario) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$641,472 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$198,484). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Meal Exchange receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$641k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,700 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2020
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.
- Metropolitan Community Church of Torontolocal
- Food for Life Inc.portfolio match
- Sperowayportfolio 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 43% · 2018 55% · 2019 38% · 2020 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Meal Exchange’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$27k → C$138.
From the CRA filings of Meal Exchange’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
Meal Exchange has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Meal Exchange.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 35% · 2019 54% · 2020 39% · 2021 72% · 2022 95% · 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of Meal Exchange's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
57% of Meal Exchange'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$335 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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Metropolitan Community Church of TorontolocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Food for Life Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sperowayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sodexo Foundation Inc/Fondation Sodexo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakfast for Learning Dejeuner Pour Apprendreportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fct Charitable Foundation/Fondation de Bienfaisance Fctportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Law Society Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Mississaugaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David McAntony Gibson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mazon Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steelworkers Humanity Fund Incportfolio 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 Meal Exchange reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 36% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Meal Exchange
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
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Meal Exchange?
- Meal Exchange (Ontario) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$641,472 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$198,484). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Meal Exchange have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 19 organizations giving C$641,472 in grants to Meal Exchange, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Meal Exchange?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$198,484 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Meal Exchange 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 19 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