Ontario · Registered charity
THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (Ontario) receives grants from 68 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,764,637 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$1,187,499). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$6.0M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- C$5.8M
- Net assets
- C$1.6M
What The Royal Canadian Geographical Society does
Ongoing programs
Publication of bi-monthly magazine. Public lectures held across canada. A program of grants and aid designed to encourage and stimulate geographics among secondary college and university teachers. An annual geography contest is organized for high school students across canada.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from C$3.5M to C$6.1M (+74%).
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 19% · 2018 26% · 2019 23% · 2020 37% · 2021 18% · 2022 1% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (34% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose C$142k → C$1.3M.
From the CRA filings of THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 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 THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 26% · 2019 55% · 2020 40% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 19% — 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
52% of THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
82% of THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY'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$625k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 regions 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.
Against its field
THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 36 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 388 support of schools and education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 15% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY?
- THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (Ontario) receives grants from 68 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,764,637 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$1,187,499). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 68 organizations giving C$5,764,637 in grants to THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY?
- RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,187,499 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 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 68 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register