Ontario · Registered charity
CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN
CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN (Ontario) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$97,390 to it, the largest being BETHEL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH OF AYLMER (C$34,231). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Don and Hazel Williams Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Dunwich Pastoral Chargelocalportfolio match
- Aylmer Baptist Churchlocalportfolio match
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.
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.
64% of CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose C$6k → C$13k.
From the CRA filings of CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN’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
CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 60%; 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 CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 44% · 2019 42% · 2020 52% · 2021 41% · 2022 59% · 2023 33% — 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
88% of CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
100% of CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN'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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Don and Hazel Williams Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dunwich Pastoral Chargelocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Aylmer Baptist Churchlocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- St. Paul's United Churchlocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- St Andrew's United Churchlocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- First Yarmouth Baptist ChurchlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- Prairie Pregnancy Support Centreportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Open Door Womens Care Centreportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Netherlands Reformed Congregation of Lethbridgeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwold United Church Pastoral ChargelocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- The Barrie FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Elgin-St. Thomas Community FoundationlocalON · funds 15 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN
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
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN?
- CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN (Ontario) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$97,390 to it, the largest being BETHEL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH OF AYLMER (C$34,231). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$97,390 in grants to CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN?
- BETHEL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH OF AYLMER is the largest funder on record, with C$34,231 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHOOSE LIFE ELGIN 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 14 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