Ontario · Registered charity
Road to Zero Waste (RZW)
Road to Zero Waste (RZW) (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,992 to it, the largest being Club des petits déjeuners du Canada - Breakfast Club of Canada (C$5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Road to Zero Waste (RZW)'s revenue fell 77% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,008 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Food Banks British Columbiashared fundersportfolio match
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canadashared fundersportfolio match
- Hope City Residenceslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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: 2020 44% · 2022 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of Road to Zero Waste (RZW)’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell C$5k → C$0.
From the CRA filings of Road to Zero Waste (RZW)’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
Road to Zero Waste (RZW) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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 Road to Zero Waste (RZW).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
Road to Zero Waste (RZW) draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Food Banks British Columbiashared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canadashared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hope City ResidenceslocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food for Life Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David McAntony Gibson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sperowayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hamilton Food Shareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Alberta Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AMA Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporationportfolio 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 Road to Zero Waste (RZW) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 73% of FY2022 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Road to Zero Waste (RZW)
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Road to Zero Waste (RZW)?
- Road to Zero Waste (RZW) (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,992 to it, the largest being Club des petits déjeuners du Canada - Breakfast Club of Canada (C$5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Road to Zero Waste (RZW) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$5,992 in grants to Road to Zero Waste (RZW), 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Road to Zero Waste (RZW)?
- Club des petits déjeuners du Canada - Breakfast Club of Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Road to Zero Waste (RZW) 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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