Ontario · Registered charity
PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE
PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$80,300 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$41,554). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 878 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 878 teaching institutions nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 Harry P Ward Foundationlocalportfolio match
- St Giles Presbyterian Churchlocal
- Books Over Borders Livres Transfrontièresportfolio 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 91% · 2018 84% · 2019 88% · 2020 91% · 2021 95% · 2022 91% · 2023 91% · 2024 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose C$7k → C$11k.
From the CRA filings of PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE’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
PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 58% · 2019 76% · 2020 61% · 2021 46% · 2022 73% · 2023 62% — 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 PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
100% of PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE'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$3k 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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Harry P Ward Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- St Giles Presbyterian ChurchlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Books Over Borders Livres Transfrontièresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Literacy Association of Nova Scotiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Excellence in Literacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Decoda Literacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick Ltd.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pillar Nonprofit Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The AIMCo Foundation for Financial Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maurice Price Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barristers for a Better Bytownportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 84% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE?
- PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$80,300 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$41,554). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 9 organizations giving C$80,300 in grants to PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$41,554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE WORDS & CHANGE 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 9 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