Ontario · Registered charity
Mississauga Foundation
Mississauga Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,164,389 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA (C$3,520,522). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$5.5M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- C$4.2M
- Net assets
- C$31M
What Mississauga Foundation does
Ongoing programs
First the Foundation brings donors to the table as community builders helping them formulate and realize their philanthropic goals matching their interest and concerns with community needs and organizations and finding innovative and responsible ways to give their investments lasting impact. Second the Foundation takes the broadest view of what a community is and what it needs to succeed. This is why grants from the Foundation support everything from shelter sustenance and care for those in need to recreation the arts and the environment. Third the Foundation takes the long term view for the community identifying long term needs and opportunities and investing through grants in sustainable solutions helping our communities become resilient resourceful and ready for the future. Mississauga Vital Signs: The Foundation participates in this national initiative which provides donors organizations and the broader community with information in key quality of life indicators helping the community identify area of strength as well as opportunities to invest resources for greater impact.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from C$24M to C$28M (+16%).
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: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Mississauga Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$45k → C$1.3M.
From the CRA filings of Mississauga Foundation’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
Mississauga Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 Mississauga Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 45% · 2019 45% · 2020 92% · 2021 50% · 2022 83% · 2023 94% — 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
46% of Mississauga Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
89% of Mississauga Foundation'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$444k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$3.7M 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.
Against its field
Mississauga Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,601 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue Mississauga Foundation reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Mississauga Foundation
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Mississauga Foundation?
- Mississauga Foundation (Ontario) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,164,389 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA (C$3,520,522). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mississauga Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 18 organizations giving C$4,164,389 in grants to Mississauga Foundation, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mississauga Foundation?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$3,520,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mississauga Foundation 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 18 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