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Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada

Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada (Quebec) receives grants from 119 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,653,031 to it, the largest being Ardene Foundation / Fondation Ardene (C$1,383,778). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$9.9M
Revenue FY2024
119
Funders on record
C$5.7M
Grants received
C$3.1M
Net assets
48/119 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada's funding base is broadening — from 23 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty 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$6.5M) Expenses 100 (C$6.3M) Net assets 100 (C$1.4M)2018 Revenue 102 (C$6.7M) Expenses 102 (C$6.5M) Net assets 116 (C$1.7M)2019 Revenue 106 (C$6.9M) Expenses 111 (C$7.0M) Net assets 110 (C$1.6M)2020 Revenue 96 (C$6.3M) Expenses 82 (C$5.2M) Net assets 188 (C$2.7M)2021 Revenue 115 (C$7.6M) Expenses 115 (C$7.3M) Net assets 206 (C$2.9M)2022 Revenue 153 (C$10.0M) Expenses 156 (C$9.9M) Net assets 211 (C$3.0M)2023 Revenue 157 (C$10M) Expenses 162 (C$10M) Net assets 214 (C$3.1M)2024 Revenue 151 (C$9.9M) Expenses 156 (C$9.9M) Net assets 218 (C$3.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (151)Expenses (156)Net assets (218)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

60% of Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,313 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$225k
’17
C$229k
’18
−C$81k
’19
C$1.1M
’20
C$262k
’21
C$147k
’22
C$52k
’23
C$47k
’24
2.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose C$342k → C$855k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$310k
Sofina Foundationunclassified
C$163k
C$148k
Toronto Foundationunclassified
C$78k
C$24k
C$20k
C$19k
C$18k
funders
23
29
31
55
33
30
26
32

Left out of every figure on this page: C$71k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada). These are real filings, and they are not money Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada raised.

From the CRA filings of Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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

Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada.

24%
largest funder
45%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 46% · 2019 36% · 2020 14% · 2021 68% · 2022 53% · 2023 49% — 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

22% of Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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

57% of Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada's grant income comes from Quebec funders.

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Quebec out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$543k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 119 funders put you typical 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 Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada reports

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

FY2018C$14k
  • 0% of FY2018 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada

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 Quebec

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 3%Fundraising 14%

Governance

6
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada?
Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada (Quebec) receives grants from 119 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,653,031 to it, the largest being Ardene Foundation / Fondation Ardene (C$1,383,778). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 119 organizations giving C$5,653,031 in grants to Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada?
Ardene Foundation / Fondation Ardene is the largest funder on record, with C$1,383,778 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Starlight Children's Foundation Canada / Fondation pour l'enfance Starlight Canada find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Quebec.

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 119 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