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NIPISSING UNIVERSITY

NIPISSING UNIVERSITY (Ontario) receives grants from 33 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,111,304 to it, the largest being The Joyce Family Foundation (C$1,500,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$96M
Revenue FY2024
33
Funders on record
C$3.1M
Grants received
C$20M
Net assets
17/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

NIPISSING UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 442 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 442 teaching institutions nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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$81M) Expenses 100 (C$82M) Net assets 100 (C$24M)2018 Revenue 107 (C$86M) Expenses 105 (C$85M) Net assets 104 (C$25M)2019 Revenue 103 (C$83M) Expenses 106 (C$87M) Net assets 88 (C$21M)2020 Revenue 103 (C$83M) Expenses 104 (C$85M) Net assets 79 (C$19M)2021 Revenue 95 (C$76M) Expenses 98 (C$80M) Net assets 66 (C$16M)2022 Revenue 100 (C$81M) Expenses 104 (C$85M) Net assets 60 (C$14M)2023 Revenue 110 (C$89M) Expenses 107 (C$87M) Net assets 67 (C$16M)2024 Revenue 119 (C$96M) Expenses 113 (C$92M) Net assets 84 (C$20M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (113)Net assets (84)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 49% · 2019 49% · 2020 51% · 2021 51% · 2022 49% · 2023 50% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of NIPISSING UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 390 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$1.2M
’17
C$853k
’18
−C$4.0M
’19
−C$1.9M
’20
−C$4.0M
’21
−C$4.5M
’22
C$1.7M
’23
C$3.5M
’24
3.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose C$67k → C$723k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Actuaidentity?
C$751k
Redpoll Foundationunclassified
C$7k
C$6k
Toronto Foundationunclassified
C$3k
C$1k
funders
9
10
12
12
9
7
12
10

From the CRA filings of NIPISSING UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

NIPISSING UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 NIPISSING UNIVERSITY.

48%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 48% · 2019 41% · 2020 43% · 2021 96% · 2022 66% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.

“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

39% of NIPISSING UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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

100% of NIPISSING UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$66k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

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 33 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 NIPISSING UNIVERSITY reports

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

FY2024C$44M
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  • 46% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like NIPISSING UNIVERSITY

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.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

33
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds NIPISSING UNIVERSITY?
NIPISSING UNIVERSITY (Ontario) receives grants from 33 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,111,304 to it, the largest being The Joyce Family Foundation (C$1,500,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NIPISSING UNIVERSITY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 33 organizations giving C$3,111,304 in grants to NIPISSING UNIVERSITY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NIPISSING UNIVERSITY?
The Joyce Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NIPISSING UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

Play a game about who funds Nipissing University →

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 33 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