Ontario · Registered charity
REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)
REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) (Ontario) receives grants from 70 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,032,570 to it, the largest being THE FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGION (C$1,158,190). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Regionlocalportfolio match
- St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church Kitchenerlocal
- Zonta Club Kitchener-Waterloo Charitable Foundationlocal
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 65% · 2018 67% · 2019 29% · 2020 72% · 2021 80% · 2022 89% · 2023 66% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose C$203k → C$432k.
From the CRA filings of REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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 REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 60% · 2019 56% · 2020 59% · 2021 47% · 2022 33% · 2023 17% — 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
49% of REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
96% of REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)'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$348k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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 70 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Regionlocalportfolio matchON · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church KitchenerlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Zonta Club Kitchener-Waterloo Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessnessportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trek for Teens Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raising the Roof Chez Toitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Junior League of Torontoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grand River Unitarian CongregationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you
- Erb Street Mennonite ChurchlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Rotary Club of Kitchener-Westmount Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Family & Children's Services of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
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 REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 67% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)
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 REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)?
- REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) (Ontario) receives grants from 70 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,032,570 to it, the largest being THE FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGION (C$1,158,190). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 70 organizations giving C$4,032,570 in grants to REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER), 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)?
- THE FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,158,190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) 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 70 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