Manitoba · Registered charity
WHY ENCOUNTER INC.
WHY ENCOUNTER INC. (Manitoba) receives grants from 25 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$469,790 to it, the largest being CANADIAN NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION (C$173,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WHY ENCOUNTER INC.'s revenue fell 93% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,630 support of religion nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Lac Du Bonnet & District Charitable Foundation Inc.local
- Catch The Fire Toronto Eastportfolio match
- National House of Prayer -portfolio 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: 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of WHY ENCOUNTER INC.’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell C$121k → C$33k.
From the CRA filings of WHY ENCOUNTER INC.’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
WHY ENCOUNTER INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 67%; 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 WHY ENCOUNTER INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 46% · 2019 34% · 2020 67% · 2021 77% · 2022 62% · 2023 63% — 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
5% of WHY ENCOUNTER INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
76% of WHY ENCOUNTER INC.'s grant income comes from Manitoba funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$208k 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 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lac Du Bonnet & District Charitable Foundation Inc.localMB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Catch The Fire Toronto Eastportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National House of Prayer -portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Life of Victory Family Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlottetown Bible Chapelportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apsley Community Chapelportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faith Family Church Christian Faith Outreach Centreportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- V-Kol Media Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Worship Centre Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Church on the Rockportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Damascus Road Foundationshared fundersON · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Starbuck All Charities Inc.localMB · funds 3 organizations near you
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 WHY ENCOUNTER INC. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 14% of FY2021 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like WHY ENCOUNTER INC.
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 Manitoba
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds WHY ENCOUNTER INC.?
- WHY ENCOUNTER INC. (Manitoba) receives grants from 25 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$469,790 to it, the largest being CANADIAN NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION (C$173,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHY ENCOUNTER INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 25 organizations giving C$469,790 in grants to WHY ENCOUNTER INC., 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHY ENCOUNTER INC.?
- CANADIAN NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$173,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHY ENCOUNTER INC. find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Manitoba.
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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 25 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