Ontario · Registered charity
UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES
UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES (Ontario) receives grants from 57 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,280,341 to it, the largest being United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada (C$3,960,837). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES has grown faster than half of the 1,601 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations 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 Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Good Foundation Inc.local
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundationportfolio 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 4% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 26% · 2022 2% · 2023 5% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 25 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose C$337k → C$3.1M.
From the CRA filings of UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 80%; 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 UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 69% · 2019 57% · 2020 49% · 2021 50% · 2022 63% · 2023 59% — 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
49% of UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
70% of UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES'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$995k 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 57 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.localON · funds 3 organizations near you
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Manfred & Penny Conrad Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Church of the Holy Saviourportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Kitchener-Westmount Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- School Sisters of Notre Dame of Ontarioshared fundersON · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
- The Mitchell and Kathryn Baran Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Longo Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- The Slaight Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- The Wb Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
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 UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 24% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES?
- UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES (Ontario) receives grants from 57 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,280,341 to it, the largest being United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada (C$3,960,837). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 57 organizations giving C$14,280,341 in grants to UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES?
- United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$3,960,837 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 57 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