Ontario · Registered charity
THE LISGAR FUND
THE LISGAR FUND (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$61,258 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$53,987). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE LISGAR FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 484 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 484 teaching institutions 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.
- Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundationshared funders
- Smart Serve Ontarioportfolio match
- Chartered Professional Accountants' Education Foundation of British Columbiaportfolio 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.
20% of THE LISGAR FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose C$5k → C$12k.
From the CRA filings of THE LISGAR FUND’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
THE LISGAR FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 THE LISGAR FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 96% · 2019 72% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 92% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE LISGAR FUND'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$5k 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.
- Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundationshared fundersON · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
- Smart Serve Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chartered Professional Accountants' Education Foundation of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canerector Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Credit Union Foundation of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Music Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- B.O.L.T. Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Nutrition Council of Manitoba Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ayemel Family Foundation/Fondation de la Famille Ayemelportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Odette Kaye Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Earl B. Connell Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canadaportfolio 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.
Organizations like THE LISGAR FUND
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LISGAR FUND?
- THE LISGAR FUND (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$61,258 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$53,987). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LISGAR FUND have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$61,258 in grants to THE LISGAR FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LISGAR FUND?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$53,987 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LISGAR FUND 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 3 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