Ontario · Registered charity
The Free Methodist Church in Canada
The Free Methodist Church in Canada (Ontario) receives grants from 142 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$15,438,266 to it, the largest being THE FREE METHODIST FOUNDATION IN CANADA (C$3,865,145). 110 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Free Methodist Church in Canada has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,968 christianity nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,968 christianity 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 Damascus Road Foundationshared funders
- North American Word Outreach Inc.portfolio match
- Woodgreen Presbyterian Churchportfolio 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 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of The Free Methodist Church in Canada’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 81 funders to 88 funders, grant income rose C$1.4M → C$1.9M.
Left out of every figure on this page: C$1.9M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Free Methodist Church in Canada). These are real filings, and they are not money The Free Methodist Church in Canada raised.
From the CRA filings of The Free Methodist Church in Canada’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 142 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 Free Methodist Church in Canada has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 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 Free Methodist Church in Canada.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 28% · 2019 23% · 2020 29% · 2021 26% · 2022 31% · 2023 40% — 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
71% of The Free Methodist Church in Canada's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
76% of The Free Methodist Church in Canada'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$46k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 142 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Damascus Road Foundationshared fundersON · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- North American Word Outreach Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woodgreen Presbyterian Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lansdowne Community Baptist Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chinook Bible Church Christian Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Presbyterian Womens Missionary Society Western Divisionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thistletown Baptist Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope City Abbotsford Church Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maranatha Canadian Reformed Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Charitable Foundation of Canadashared fundersON · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Heron Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
- Peoples Ministries Inc.shared fundersON · backs 43 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 Free Methodist Church in Canada reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like The Free Methodist Church in 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Free Methodist Church in Canada?
- The Free Methodist Church in Canada (Ontario) receives grants from 142 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$15,438,266 to it, the largest being THE FREE METHODIST FOUNDATION IN CANADA (C$3,865,145). 110 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Free Methodist Church in Canada have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 142 organizations giving C$15,438,266 in grants to The Free Methodist Church in Canada, 110 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Free Methodist Church in Canada?
- THE FREE METHODIST FOUNDATION IN CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$3,865,145 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Free Methodist Church in Canada find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 142 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