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UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT

UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT (Ontario) receives grants from 40 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,129,819 to it, the largest being ALGOMA STEEL INC. EMPLOYEES' CHARITY TRUST (C$1,135,170). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$1.6M
Revenue FY2024
40
Funders on record
C$4.1M
Grants received
C$367k
Net assets
29/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%

Against its field

UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations 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$1.9M) Expenses 100 (C$1.9M) Net assets 100 (C$1.1M)2018 Revenue 89 (C$1.7M) Expenses 94 (C$1.8M) Net assets 89 (C$956k)2019 Revenue 103 (C$1.9M) Expenses 105 (C$2.0M) Net assets 83 (C$889k)2020 Revenue 89 (C$1.7M) Expenses 108 (C$2.1M) Net assets 47 (C$504k)2021 Revenue 143 (C$2.7M) Expenses 126 (C$2.4M) Net assets 74 (C$791k)2022 Revenue 93 (C$1.8M) Expenses 96 (C$1.9M) Net assets 66 (C$706k)2023 Revenue 62 (C$1.2M) Expenses 64 (C$1.2M) Net assets 48 (C$516k)2024 Revenue 82 (C$1.6M) Expenses 88 (C$1.7M) Net assets 34 (C$367k)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (88)Net assets (34)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
2019
2020
2021
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 29% · 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 39% · 2022 28% · 2023 25% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,335 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$33k
’17
−C$136k
’18
−C$70k
’19
−C$393k
’20
C$271k
’21
−C$85k
’22
−C$62k
’23
−C$149k
’24
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 17 funders, grant income rose C$319k → C$690k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$712k
Right To Foodunclassified
C$110k
C$8k
C$5k
C$4k
C$600
funders
17
18
21
22
15
17
17
17

From the CRA filings of UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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

UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 69%; 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 UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT.

27%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 50% · 2019 48% · 2020 60% · 2021 32% · 2022 44% · 2023 51% — 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

45% of UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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

98% of UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$2k 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 40 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 UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT reports

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

FY2024C$140k
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  • 9% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT

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.

Governance

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board members

Questions and answers

Who funds UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT?
UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT (Ontario) receives grants from 40 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,129,819 to it, the largest being ALGOMA STEEL INC. EMPLOYEES' CHARITY TRUST (C$1,135,170). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 40 organizations giving C$4,129,819 in grants to UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT?
ALGOMA STEEL INC. EMPLOYEES' CHARITY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with C$1,135,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED WAY SAULT STE. MARIE & ALGOMA DISTRICT 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 40 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