Ontario · Registered charity
TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION
TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 28 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,571,017 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$514,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 879 core health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 879 core health care 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.
- The United Way of Miltonlocal
- Order of St John Palliative Care Foundationportfolio match
- The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in Canada L'Ordre Militaire Et Hospitalier de St-Lazare-De-Jerusalem Au Canadaportfolio 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: 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (6% 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 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose C$6k → C$537k.
From the CRA filings of TOWNSEND SMITH 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
TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 35% · 2019 21% · 2020 48% · 2021 79% · 2022 75% · 2023 75% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
99% of TOWNSEND SMITH 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. C$515k 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. Your 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The United Way of MiltonlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Order of St John Palliative Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in Canada L'Ordre Militaire Et Hospitalier de St-Lazare-De-Jerusalem Au Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saint Elizabeth Community Enterpriseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Children's Grief Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Centre Hastings Community Support and Education Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alix and Robert Jickling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brian Todd Memorial Community Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wiseman Hamilton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Muslim Association of MiltonlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- United Way of Halton HillslocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
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 TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 23% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like TOWNSEND SMITH 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
4% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION?
- TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 28 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,571,017 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$514,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 28 organizations giving C$1,571,017 in grants to TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOWNSEND SMITH FOUNDATION?
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$514,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOWNSEND SMITH 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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