Ontario · Registered charity
POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA
POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA (Ontario) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$139,253 to it, the largest being THE M A C AIDS FUND/LE FONDS SIDA MAC (C$40,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA is better cushioned than half 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.
- The Branscombe Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Wise Guys Charity Fundshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundationlocalportfolio 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 94% · 2018 95% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 94% · 2022 99% · 2023 94% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA’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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell C$26k → C$8k.
From the CRA filings of POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA’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
POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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 POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 56% · 2019 65% · 2020 49% · 2021 78% · 2022 73% · 2023 63% — 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
27% of POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
95% of POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA'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$18k 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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Branscombe Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 12 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wise Guys Charity Fundshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Niagara-On-The-Lake Rotary Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 10 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ctfs Employees' Charity Trustlocalportfolio matchON · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Federation of University Women - St Catharines Charitable FundlocalON · funds 10 organizations near you
- Pride and Remembrance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stamford Lane United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis Club of St Catharines Charitable TrustlocalON · funds 8 organizations near you
- Silver Spire United ChurchlocalON · funds 8 organizations near you
- Erwin Taylor Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 8 organizations near you
- Trillium United ChurchlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Rotary Club of St. Catharines Charitable TrustlocalON · funds 10 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 POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 94% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA?
- POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA (Ontario) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$139,253 to it, the largest being THE M A C AIDS FUND/LE FONDS SIDA MAC (C$40,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$139,253 in grants to POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA?
- THE M A C AIDS FUND/LE FONDS SIDA MAC is the largest funder on record, with C$40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POSITIVE LIVING NIAGARA 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 14 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