Ontario · Registered charity
Shelley Cares Foundation
Shelley Cares Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$342,425 to it, the largest being Right To Food (C$192,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Shelley Cares Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,008 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
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 Alberta Associationshared fundersportfolio match
- Peter and Taina Youngren Gospel Legacy Foundationlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 65% · 2021 19% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Shelley Cares Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose C$7k → C$26k.
From the CRA filings of Shelley Cares Foundation’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
Shelley Cares Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 Shelley Cares Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 97% · 2021 77% · 2022 44% · 2023 46% — 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 Shelley Cares Foundation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 89% 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
93% of Shelley Cares Foundation's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
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. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Food Banks British Columbiashared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Alberta Associationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Peter and Taina Youngren Gospel Legacy FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AMA Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feed Nova Scotia Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sussex Sharing Club Incportfolio 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
- Simcoe County Paramedic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David McAntony Gibson Foundationportfolio 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 Shelley Cares Foundation reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 89% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Shelley Cares Foundation
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Shelley Cares Foundation?
- Shelley Cares Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$342,425 to it, the largest being Right To Food (C$192,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Shelley Cares Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 9 organizations giving C$342,425 in grants to Shelley Cares Foundation, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Shelley Cares Foundation?
- Right To Food is the largest funder on record, with C$192,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Shelley Cares Foundation 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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