Ontario · Registered charity
UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION
UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$519,463 to it, the largest being ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA EMPLOYEES CHARTIBLE FU (C$456,859). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited - Employees' Charitylocalportfolio match
- United Way of Canada - Centraide Canadashared fundersportfolio match
- Brightstart Caledon Family Centrelocal
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell C$165k → C$7k.
From the CRA filings of UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION’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
UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 92% · 2019 94% · 2020 84% · 2021 82% · 2022 82% · 2023 69% — 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
40% of UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
100% of UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited - Employees' Charitylocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Canada - Centraide Canadashared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Brightstart Caledon Family CentrelocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Farantatos Family Religious Land Holding FoundationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Peterborough Child and Family Centresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- General Motors of Canada Limited Employees Charityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and Areaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Durham Regionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goodwill Industries Ontario Great Lakesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William F Hayball Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Don and Joan Walker Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Oxfordportfolio 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.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION?
- UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$519,463 to it, the largest being ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA EMPLOYEES CHARTIBLE FU (C$456,859). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$519,463 in grants to UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION?
- ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA EMPLOYEES CHARTIBLE FU is the largest funder on record, with C$456,859 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF YORK REGION 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 FY2017, 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register