Ontario · Registered charity
Skills For Life Inc
Skills For Life Inc (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$366,041 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$98,688). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Skills For Life Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,075 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,075 support of schools and education 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.
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- Dhan Dhan Baba Budha Ji Gurdwara Sahiblocal
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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: 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 32% · 2021 46% · 2022 87% · 2023 50% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Skills For Life Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (40% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$5k → C$78k.
From the CRA filings of Skills For Life Inc’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
Skills For Life Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Skills For Life Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 37% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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
20% of Skills For Life Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
72% of Skills For Life Inc'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$98k 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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fundshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dhan Dhan Baba Budha Ji Gurdwara SahiblocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yellow Bus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Johansen-Larsen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles H. Ivey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The PepsiCo Canada Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beutel goodman charitable foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable 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 Skills For Life Inc reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 36% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Skills For Life Inc
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Skills For Life Inc?
- Skills For Life Inc (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$366,041 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$98,688). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Skills For Life Inc have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 9 organizations giving C$366,041 in grants to Skills For Life Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Skills For Life Inc?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$98,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Skills For Life Inc 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 2018–2024), 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