Ontario · Registered charity
THE MENNONITE STORY INC.
THE MENNONITE STORY INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$84,278 to it, the largest being MERSYNERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$20,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE MENNONITE STORY INC.'s revenue fell 96% between 2017 and 2024.
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 Jim and Lorna Blair Charitable Foundationshared funders
- D F Plett Historical Research Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Kroeker Foundation Incorporatedportfolio 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: 2018 3% · 2019 14% · 2020 5% · 2021 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of THE MENNONITE STORY INC.’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell C$18k → C$2k.
From the CRA filings of THE MENNONITE STORY INC.’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
THE MENNONITE STORY INC. has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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 THE MENNONITE STORY INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 34% · 2019 33% · 2020 57% · 2021 30% · 2022 34% · 2023 64% — 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
64% of THE MENNONITE STORY INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
84% of THE MENNONITE STORY INC.'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. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 155 organizations that share them.
- The Jim and Lorna Blair Charitable Foundationshared fundersON · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- D F Plett Historical Research Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kroeker Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charleswood Mennonite Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- River East Church Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fort Garry Mennonite Fellowshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crossroads Mennonite Brethren Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McIvor Avenue M B Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mennonite Church British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saanich Community Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wallenstein Feed Charitable Foundationshared fundersON · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- Shantz Mennonite Churchshared fundersON · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
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 THE MENNONITE STORY INC. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 25% of FY2021 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE MENNONITE STORY INC.
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 THE MENNONITE STORY INC.?
- THE MENNONITE STORY INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$84,278 to it, the largest being MERSYNERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$20,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MENNONITE STORY INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$84,278 in grants to THE MENNONITE STORY INC., 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MENNONITE STORY INC.?
- MERSYNERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MENNONITE STORY INC. 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 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