Ontario · Registered charity
WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS
WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS (Ontario) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$394,659 to it, the largest being Green Municipal Fund (C$168,700). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 67 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 67 environment 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 funderslocalportfolio match
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Rockway Mennonite 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 45% · 2018 46% · 2019 46% · 2020 51% · 2021 46% · 2022 40% · 2023 46% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% 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 broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$8k → C$100k.
From the CRA filings of WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS’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 GREEN SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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 WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 40% · 2019 32% · 2020 35% · 2021 55% · 2022 89% · 2023 81% — 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
31% of WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
91% of WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS'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$50k 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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rockway Mennonite ChurchlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Green Communities Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Small Change Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greenbelt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alberta Ecotrust Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John and Pat McCutcheon Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Salamander Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kitchener Rotary Club Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Wildlife Foundationportfolio 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 GREEN SOLUTIONS reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 45% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS?
- WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS (Ontario) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$394,659 to it, the largest being Green Municipal Fund (C$168,700). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 16 organizations giving C$394,659 in grants to WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS?
- Green Municipal Fund is the largest funder on record, with C$168,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERLOO REGION GREEN SOLUTIONS 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 16 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