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Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario

Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario (Ontario) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$417,320 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$262,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
C$308k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
C$417k
Net assets
—
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario does

Ongoing programs

We provide public worship services and pastoral care to our congregation and the community. We provide free meals groceries and clothing to those in need. We also provide financial support to The United Church of Canada the Brantford Food Bank and other charitable causes as listed in report of Qualified Donnees. We provide free space for Senior's exercise classes and low rental space for other community groups.

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The 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$281k) Expenses 100 (C$276k) Net assets 100 (C$653k)2018 Revenue 83 (C$234k) Expenses 102 (C$282k) Net assets 93 (C$609k)2019 Revenue 122 (C$344k) Expenses 95 (C$263k)2020 Revenue 108 (C$305k) Expenses 114 (C$316k)2021 Revenue 79 (C$223k) Expenses 101 (C$280k)2022 Revenue 79 (C$221k) Expenses 112 (C$309k) Net assets 84 (C$549k)2023 Revenue 84 (C$238k) Expenses 101 (C$278k) Net assets 82 (C$536k)2024 Revenue 109 (C$308k) Expenses 110 (C$303k)
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Revenue (109)Expenses (110)Net assets (82)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from C$785k to C$589k (−25%).

C$657k
C$609k
C$705k
C$692k
C$785k
C$589k
C$536k
C$608k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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: 2020 14% · 2021 0% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,295 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$5k
’17
−C$48k
’18
C$80k
’19
−C$11k
’20
−C$57k
’21
−C$88k
’22
−C$40k
’23
C$4k
’24
24
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed1414161613131412
Joined·+1+8+3+0+2+1+1
No longer listed·1633203
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell C$120k → C$25k.

From the CRA filings of Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario’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

Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario.

63%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 74% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 86% · 2022 85% · 2023 81% — 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.

Where its funders are

63% of Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$155k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$262k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,997 christianity nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve23.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,997 christianity nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government revenue Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario reports

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

FY2022C$3k
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21
22
  • 1% of FY2022 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford 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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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario?
Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario (Ontario) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$417,320 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$262,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$417,320 in grants to Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario?
Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$262,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sydenham - Heritage United Church Brantford Ontario 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 5 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register