Ontario · Registered charity
OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION
OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 285 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$9,485,831 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$1,694,483). 174 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 396 core health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 396 core health care nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Scarborough Health Network Foundationlocal
- Health Partners International of Canada / Partenaires canadiens pour la santé internationaleportfolio match
- Blossom Foundationportfolio 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.
98% of OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% 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 91 funders to 111 funders, grant income rose C$230k → C$2.7M.
From the CRA filings of OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 285 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
OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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 OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 59% · 2019 17% · 2020 15% · 2021 43% · 2022 19% · 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
43% of OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
53% of OPERATION SMILE CANADA 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$654k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 285 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Scarborough Health Network FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Health Partners International of Canada / Partenaires canadiens pour la santé internationaleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blossom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sinai Health FoundationlocalON · funds 7 organizations near you
- The Gilbert Goodman Family FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Ruby Family FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Odette Federer Family FoundationlocalON · funds 7 organizations near you
- Evald Torokvei FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Browning Watt FoundationlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- Uhn FoundationlocalON · funds 8 organizations near you
- The Krembil Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you
- The Jim Meekison & Carolyn Keystone FoundationlocalON · funds 5 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.
Organizations like OPERATION SMILE CANADA 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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION?
- OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 285 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$9,485,831 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$1,694,483). 174 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 285 organizations giving C$9,485,831 in grants to OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION, 174 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,694,483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION SMILE CANADA FOUNDATION 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 285 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