Ontario · Registered charity
START ME UP NIAGARA
START ME UP NIAGARA (Ontario) receives grants from 52 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,776,578 to it, the largest being BLUE SEA PHILANTHROPY INC. (C$941,582). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
START ME UP NIAGARA is better cushioned than half of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
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.
- Ctfs Employees' Charity Trustlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Niagara Falls and Greater Fort Erielocalportfolio match
- United Way of South Niagaralocalportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 78% · 2018 76% · 2019 67% · 2020 69% · 2021 71% · 2022 74% · 2023 73% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of START ME UP NIAGARA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose C$257k → C$522k.
From the CRA filings of START ME UP NIAGARA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
START ME UP NIAGARA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 68%; 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 START ME UP NIAGARA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 41% · 2019 44% · 2020 33% · 2021 62% · 2022 39% · 2023 28% — 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
57% of START ME UP NIAGARA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
98% of START ME UP NIAGARA'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$43k 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 52 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ctfs Employees' Charity Trustlocalportfolio matchON · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Niagara Falls and Greater Fort Erielocalportfolio matchON · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of South Niagaralocalportfolio matchON · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Federation of University Women - St Catharines Charitable FundlocalON · funds 10 organizations near you
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stamford Lane United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Onetree Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Erwin Taylor Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 8 organizations near you
- Niagara Peninsula Foundation for ChildrenlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- St Catharines United Mennonite ChurchlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Prevent Challenge FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- The Ontario Paper Thorold FoundationlocalON · funds 13 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.
Government revenue START ME UP NIAGARA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 60% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like START ME UP NIAGARA
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds START ME UP NIAGARA?
- START ME UP NIAGARA (Ontario) receives grants from 52 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,776,578 to it, the largest being BLUE SEA PHILANTHROPY INC. (C$941,582). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does START ME UP NIAGARA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 52 organizations giving C$2,776,578 in grants to START ME UP NIAGARA, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of START ME UP NIAGARA?
- BLUE SEA PHILANTHROPY INC. is the largest funder on record, with C$941,582 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like START ME UP NIAGARA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 52 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