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PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON)

PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON) (Ontario) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,533,199 to it, the largest being THE LYLE SHANTZ HALLMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$1,314,295). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$1.2M
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
C$1.5M
Grants received
C$0
Net assets
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%

Against its field

PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON) has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve4.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$398k) Expenses 100 (C$393k)2018 Revenue 113 (C$450k) Expenses 114 (C$449k)2019 Revenue 149 (C$594k) Expenses 141 (C$554k)2020 Revenue 129 (C$514k) Expenses 128 (C$504k)2021 Revenue 160 (C$635k) Expenses 152 (C$596k)2022 Revenue 153 (C$607k) Expenses 154 (C$605k)2023 Revenue 200 (C$795k) Expenses 201 (C$791k)2024 Revenue 313 (C$1.2M) Expenses 315 (C$1.2M)
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Revenue (313)Expenses (315)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 87% · 2018 61% · 2019 33% · 2020 38% · 2021 27% · 2022 25% · 2023 65% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,313 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$5k
’17
C$874
’18
C$40k
’19
C$10k
’20
C$39k
’21
C$1k
’22
C$4k
’23
C$6k
’24
4.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell C$249k → C$53k.

From the CRA filings of PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON)’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

PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON).

86%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 91% · 2019 93% · 2020 99% · 2021 87% · 2022 89% · 2023 56% — 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

50% of PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON)'s grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$129k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON) reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$967k
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  • 78% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON)

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON)?
PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON) (Ontario) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,533,199 to it, the largest being THE LYLE SHANTZ HALLMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$1,314,295). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON) have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$1,533,199 in grants to PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON), 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON)?
THE LYLE SHANTZ HALLMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,314,295 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT READ LITERACY NETWORK (WATERLOO - WELLINGTON) find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

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 8 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