Ontario · Registered charity
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO (Ontario) receives grants from 31 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$7,967,676 to it, the largest being TORONTO FOUNDATION (C$5,382,118). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO is better cushioned than half of the 95 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 public amenities nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Helen McCrea Peacock Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Toronto Central Council Société de Saint-Vincent de Paul Conseil Central de Torontolocal
- Willow Beach Field Naturalists Clubportfolio 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 27% · 2018 28% · 2019 24% · 2020 57% · 2021 44% · 2022 29% · 2023 24% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (3% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 17 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose C$74k → C$144k.
From the CRA filings of BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 52% · 2019 43% · 2020 75% · 2021 96% · 2022 63% · 2023 95% — 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
28% of BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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 BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO'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$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. Your 31 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Helen McCrea Peacock Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Toronto Central Council Société de Saint-Vincent de Paul Conseil Central de TorontolocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Willow Beach Field Naturalists Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Patricia Koval Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Peel Naturalists' Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fitzhenry Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Newbirth Kingdom of God MinistrieslocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Natureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Slaight Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Islamic Society of MarkhamlocalON · funds 3 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 BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 20% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO?
- BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO (Ontario) receives grants from 31 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$7,967,676 to it, the largest being TORONTO FOUNDATION (C$5,382,118). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 31 organizations giving C$7,967,676 in grants to BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO?
- TORONTO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$5,382,118 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE TORONTO ZOO 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 31 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