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TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT

TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$624,667 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$307,326). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$15M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
C$625k
Net assets
C$2.5M
9/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Total Communication Environment does

Ongoing programs

Provides residential homes and support to individuals with multiple disabilities and special communication needs. Total Communication Environment's counselors use sign language bliss symbols and other forms of non-verbal communication to interact with our clients. TCE (Total Communication Environment) also provides respite/parent relief support to individuals with developmental disabilities in the community in Ottawa on an as needed basis for long and/or short term care.

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$12M) Expenses 100 (C$12M) Net assets 100 (C$1.8M)2018 Revenue 100 (C$12M) Expenses 100 (C$12M) Net assets 104 (C$1.9M)2019 Revenue 101 (C$13M) Expenses 101 (C$12M) Net assets 107 (C$2.0M)2020 Revenue 102 (C$13M) Expenses 102 (C$13M) Net assets 108 (C$2.0M)2021 Revenue 111 (C$14M) Expenses 108 (C$13M) Net assets 131 (C$2.4M)2022 Revenue 109 (C$13M) Expenses 109 (C$13M) Net assets 130 (C$2.4M)2023 Revenue 112 (C$14M) Expenses 114 (C$14M) Net assets 121 (C$2.2M)2024 Revenue 123 (C$15M) Expenses 120 (C$15M) Net assets 135 (C$2.5M)
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Revenue (123)Expenses (120)Net assets (135)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from C$5.5M to C$6.4M (+15%).

C$5.6M
C$5.5M
C$6.4M
C$6.1M
C$6.5M
C$6.4M
C$6.4M
C$6.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 90% · 2018 90% · 2019 90% · 2020 89% · 2021 88% · 2022 90% · 2023 91% · 2024 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (2% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 478 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$1k
’17
C$82k
’18
C$82k
’19
C$16k
’20
C$424k
’21
−C$15k
’22
−C$172k
’23
C$261k
’24
0.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed121215101212119
Joined·+2+6+2+4+0+3+4
No longer listed·2372046
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$29k → C$91k.

From the CRA filings of TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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

TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT.

49%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 65% · 2019 68% · 2020 59% · 2021 53% · 2022 51% · 2023 56% — 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.

How long its funders stay

56% of TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$307k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · above the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government revenue TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$14M
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  • 91% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT?
TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$624,667 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$307,326). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$624,667 in grants to TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT?
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa is the largest funder on record, with C$307,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TOTAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT 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 11 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register