Ontario · Registered charity
WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES
WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$9,788 to it, the largest being Waterloo Region Community Foundation (C$9,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource 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.
- Trinity United Churchlocalportfolio match
- Astley Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Regionlocalportfolio 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 96% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$96 → C$192.
From the CRA filings of WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES’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
WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$788 that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Ontario, across 2 regions.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$9k 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.
- Trinity United Churchlocalportfolio matchON · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Astley Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Regionlocalportfolio matchON · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fundlocalportfolio matchON · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloolocalportfolio matchON · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waterloolocalportfolio matchON · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Fairmount Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Matthews (Kitchener) Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emmanuel United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bloomingdale United Churchportfolio 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.
Government revenue WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 93% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES?
- WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$9,788 to it, the largest being Waterloo Region Community Foundation (C$9,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$9,788 in grants to WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES?
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES 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 3 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