Ontario · Registered charity
THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION
THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$231,204 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$199,193). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 712 supportive health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 712 supportive health care nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Vision Ministries Canadalocal
- The Healing Cycle Foundationportfolio match
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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: 2021 35% · 2022 36% · 2023 15% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (35% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose C$3k → C$64k.
From the CRA filings of THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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 LIVING WISH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 LIVING WISH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 66% · 2022 70% · 2023 98% — 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
50% of THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION'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. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Vision Ministries CanadalocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Healing Cycle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Warren Y. Soper Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trotter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saint Elizabeth Community Enterpriseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Order of St John Palliative Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mabel and Gordon McMillen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Timothy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- HBNG Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wilf and Jean Bell Foundationportfolio 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 LIVING WISH FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 3% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE LIVING WISH 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
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION?
- THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$231,204 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$199,193). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$231,204 in grants to THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$199,193 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIVING WISH FOUNDATION 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 14 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