Ontario · Registered charity
Next Canada
Next Canada (Ontario) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,356,871 to it, the largest being Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston (C$1,500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Next Canada holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 388 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 388 support of schools and education 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.
- The Macmillan Family Foundationlocal
- Rideau Hall Foundation / Fondation Rideau Hallportfolio match
- The Actuarial Foundation of Canada/La Fondation Actuarielle Du Canadaportfolio 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 55% · 2018 59% · 2019 64% · 2020 29% · 2021 19% · 2022 11% · 2023 8% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of Next Canada’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (34% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose C$175k → C$848k.
From the CRA filings of Next Canada’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
Next Canada leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Next Canada.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 50% · 2019 86% · 2020 63% · 2021 45% · 2022 31% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“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
36% of Next Canada's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
83% of Next 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$120k 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 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Macmillan Family FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Rideau Hall Foundation / Fondation Rideau Hallportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Actuarial Foundation of Canada/La Fondation Actuarielle Du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harris-Taylor Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Max Clarkson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pirie Foundation Non-Profit Priv Assoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caron Thorburn Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mastercard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Clearview FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- The Charles and Rita-Marsham FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research Societyshared fundersQC · backs 33 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 Next Canada reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 4% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Next 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
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Next Canada?
- Next Canada (Ontario) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,356,871 to it, the largest being Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston (C$1,500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Next Canada have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 21 organizations giving C$5,356,871 in grants to Next Canada, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Next Canada?
- Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston is the largest funder on record, with C$1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Next Canada 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 21 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