Ontario · Registered charity
National Zakat Foundation
National Zakat Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 92 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$10,142,969 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$2,299,848). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
National Zakat Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 83 islam nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 83 islam nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Toronto and Region Islamic Congregation (Taric)local
- Vijay Anand Foundationlocal
- Rotary Club of Brampton Community Charitylocal
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: 2020 18% · 2021 5% · 2022 14% · 2023 9% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of National Zakat Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose C$38k → C$2.7M.
From the CRA filings of National Zakat Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
National Zakat Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 National Zakat Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 42% · 2019 93% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 17% · 2023 47% — 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
40% of National Zakat Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
81% of National Zakat 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. C$428k 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.
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 92 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Toronto and Region Islamic Congregation (Taric)localON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Vijay Anand FoundationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Rotary Club of Brampton Community CharitylocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Unity Church of MississaugalocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Rotary Club of Mississauga FoundationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of TorontolocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Brampton and Caledon Community FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Marion Ethel Kamm and Frederick John Kamm Charitable TrustlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of CanadalocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Royal Lepage Shelter Foundationshared fundersON · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- The United Way of Peel RegionlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Tippet Foundationshared fundersON · backs 30 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 National Zakat Foundation reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like National Zakat 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds National Zakat Foundation?
- National Zakat Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 92 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$10,142,969 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$2,299,848). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Zakat Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 92 organizations giving C$10,142,969 in grants to National Zakat Foundation, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Zakat Foundation?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$2,299,848 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Zakat Foundation 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 92 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