Ontario · Registered charity
THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH (Ontario) receives grants from 63 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,939,396 to it, the largest being Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston (C$2,199,988). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$2.0M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- C$3.9M
- Net assets
- C$0
What The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research does
Ongoing programs
1. 1. The michael j fox foundation for parkinson’s research is the world’s largest nonprofit funder of parkinson’s research. It is dedicated to accelerating a cure and ensuring the development of improved therapies for the estimated six million people worldwide living with parkinson’s disease today. The foundation pursues its goals through an aggressively funded highly targeted research program coupled with the active global engagement of scientists parkinson’s patients and care partners business leaders clinical-trial participants and donors. The foundation has fundamentally altered the trajectory of progress toward a cure. Operating at the hub of worldwide of parkinson’s research the foundation: (I) forges groundbreaking collaborations with industry leaders academic scientists and government research funders; (ii) leverages new technologies to amplify the patient voice in parkinson’s research; (iii) mobilizes patients and families to increase the flow of participants into clinical trials; and (iv) coordinates community engagement efforts including patient policy advocacy education and community building through the grassroots involvement of thousands of team fox…
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 2023 to 2024, from C$4.0M to C$2.2M (−45%).
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.
99% of THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 21 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose C$255k → C$788k.
From the CRA filings of THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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 THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 22% · 2019 21% · 2020 25% · 2021 39% · 2022 84% · 2023 69% — 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
53% of THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
89% of THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH'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$109k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH is better cushioned than half of the 1,601 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH?
- THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH (Ontario) receives grants from 63 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,939,396 to it, the largest being Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston (C$2,199,988). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 63 organizations giving C$3,939,396 in grants to THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH?
- Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston is the largest funder on record, with C$2,199,988 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH 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 63 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