Ontario · Registered charity
The Rotary Foundation (Canada)
The Rotary Foundation (Canada) (Ontario) receives grants from 227 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,454,891 to it, the largest being THE ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY - COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND (C$5,801,910). 169 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Rotary Foundation (Canada) runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Palgrave Rotary Foundationlocal
- Brampton and Caledon Community Foundationlocal
- Inglewood United Churchlocal
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 5% · 2018 8% · 2019 10% · 2020 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of The Rotary Foundation (Canada)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (2% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 117 funders to 105 funders, grant income rose C$715k → C$1.8M.
From the CRA filings of The Rotary Foundation (Canada)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 227 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
The Rotary Foundation (Canada) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 53%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 The Rotary Foundation (Canada).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 11% · 2018 49% · 2019 58% · 2020 51% · 2021 19% · 2022 32% · 2023 52% — 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
61% of The Rotary Foundation (Canada)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
The Rotary Foundation (Canada) draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 10 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$496k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 regions 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 227 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Palgrave Rotary FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Brampton and Caledon Community FoundationlocalON · funds 8 organizations near you
- Inglewood United ChurchlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Cheltenham Pastoral ChargelocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Ignat Kaneff Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Community Charitable TrustlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- The Rand Alexander Lomas Family FoundationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Arthur J E Child Foundationshared fundersAB · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Shining Waters Region - The United Church of CanadalocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fundshared fundersAB · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canadashared fundersON · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Children's Hospital Aid Societyshared fundersAB · backs 34 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 The Rotary Foundation (Canada) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 12% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like The Rotary Foundation (Canada)
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Rotary Foundation (Canada)?
- The Rotary Foundation (Canada) (Ontario) receives grants from 227 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,454,891 to it, the largest being THE ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY - COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND (C$5,801,910). 169 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Rotary Foundation (Canada) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 227 organizations giving C$14,454,891 in grants to The Rotary Foundation (Canada), 169 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Rotary Foundation (Canada)?
- THE ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY - COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND is the largest funder on record, with C$5,801,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Rotary Foundation (Canada) 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 227 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