Ontario · Registered charity
STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO)
STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO) (Ontario) receives grants from 26 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$629,785 to it, the largest being Ardene Foundation / Fondation Ardene (C$400,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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
- Showers of Blessing Evangelistic Ministrylocal
- Alice and Murray Maitland Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell C$63k → C$3k.
From the CRA filings of STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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 (ONTARIO) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 47% · 2019 46% · 2020 46% · 2021 49% · 2022 53% · 2023 47% — 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
21% of STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO) draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 5 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$75k 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.
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 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fundshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Showers of Blessing Evangelistic MinistrylocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Alice and Murray Maitland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barrie Colts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sofina Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ellis Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rand Kildare Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wilf and Jean Bell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Krg Children's Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis Club of Orillia Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beutel goodman charitable foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stone Bridge Baptist ChurchlocalON · funds 7 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 STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO)
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO)?
- STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO) (Ontario) receives grants from 26 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$629,785 to it, the largest being Ardene Foundation / Fondation Ardene (C$400,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 26 organizations giving C$629,785 in grants to STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO), 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO)?
- Ardene Foundation / Fondation Ardene is the largest funder on record, with C$400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (ONTARIO) 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, and the filings of 26 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