Ontario · Registered charity
FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES
FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES (Ontario) receives grants from 87 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,266,857 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY SIMCOE MUSKOKA (C$186,270). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- First Yarmouth Baptist Churchlocal
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violenceportfolio match
- Bc Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programsportfolio 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 7% · 2018 11% · 2019 10% · 2020 10% · 2021 8% · 2022 11% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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 narrowed from 49 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose C$129k → C$272k.
From the CRA filings of FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 20% · 2019 27% · 2020 17% · 2021 37% · 2022 36% · 2023 29% — 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
61% of FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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 FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES'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$117k 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 87 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- First Yarmouth Baptist ChurchlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bc Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prairie Pregnancy Support Centreportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Royal Lepage Shelter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Muriel McQueen Fergusson Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grey Birch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Troop Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Torontoportfolio 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 FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 4% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES?
- FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES (Ontario) receives grants from 87 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,266,857 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY SIMCOE MUSKOKA (C$186,270). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 87 organizations giving C$1,266,857 in grants to FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY SIMCOE MUSKOKA is the largest funder on record, with C$186,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESH START SUPPORT SERVICES 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 87 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