Ontario · Registered charity
Tamil Literary Garden
Tamil Literary Garden (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,185 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$2,389). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Tamil Literary Garden runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,910 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,910 support of schools and education nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Toronto Dream Churchlocal
- The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundationportfolio match
- Champsee Family Foundationportfolio 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: 2018 26% · 2019 9% · 2020 48% · 2021 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Tamil Literary Garden’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$100 → C$2k.
From the CRA filings of Tamil Literary Garden’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
Tamil Literary Garden leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 Tamil Literary Garden.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 68% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
93% of Tamil Literary Garden'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.
- Toronto Dream ChurchlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Champsee Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hal Jackman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stonefields Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The K. M. Hunter Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingfisher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lindy Green Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Radlett Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Tamil Literary Garden reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 57% of FY2021 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Tamil Literary Garden
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Questions and answers
- Who funds Tamil Literary Garden?
- Tamil Literary Garden (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,185 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$2,389). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tamil Literary Garden have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$3,185 in grants to Tamil Literary Garden, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tamil Literary Garden?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$2,389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tamil Literary Garden 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 4 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