Ontario · Registered charity
THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE
THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE (Ontario) receives grants from 37 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,145,554 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$227,150). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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.
- Memorial Church Port Ryerselocal
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio match
- The Hospice Georgian Triangle 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: 2017 10% · 2018 24% · 2019 6% · 2020 22% · 2021 49% · 2022 36% · 2023 27% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose C$9k → C$216k.
From the CRA filings of THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 40% · 2019 37% · 2020 26% · 2021 42% · 2022 44% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“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
56% of THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
94% of THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE'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$333k 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 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Memorial Church Port RyerselocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David McAntony Gibson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sperowayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sussex Sharing Club Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food for Life Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Mississaugaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Alberta Associationportfolio 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 THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 33% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE?
- THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE (Ontario) receives grants from 37 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,145,554 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$227,150). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 37 organizations giving C$1,145,554 in grants to THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE?
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$227,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GATHERING FOOD CENTRE 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 37 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