Ontario · Registered charity
The Volunteer Well
The Volunteer Well (Ontario) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,003 to it, the largest being NIAGARA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FONDATION COMMUNAUTAIRE DE NIAGARA (C$1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
The Volunteer Well has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,442 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,442 community resource 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.
- St Johns Presbyterian Churchlocal
- Bernhard Melitz Foundationportfolio match
- The Lowidt Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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: 2023 74% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of The Volunteer Well’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the CRA filings of The Volunteer Well’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 Volunteer Well leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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 Volunteer Well.
“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
75% of The Volunteer Well'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$503 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ontario funders.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$2k 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.
- St Johns Presbyterian ChurchlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Bernhard Melitz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lowidt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Madan and Raksha M Bhayana Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clarkson Music Theatre Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W. C. Kitchen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Balsam Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Holdbest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toronto District School Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Samuel Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and Areaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable 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 Volunteer Well reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 95% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like The Volunteer Well
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Volunteer Well?
- The Volunteer Well (Ontario) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,003 to it, the largest being NIAGARA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FONDATION COMMUNAUTAIRE DE NIAGARA (C$1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Volunteer Well have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$2,003 in grants to The Volunteer Well.
- Who is the largest funder of The Volunteer Well?
- NIAGARA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FONDATION COMMUNAUTAIRE DE NIAGARA is the largest funder on record, with C$1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Volunteer Well 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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