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WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY

WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY (Ontario) receives grants from 139 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$19,602,325 to it, the largest being EASTERN SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERN CHURCH IN CANADA / SYNODE DE L'EST DE L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE AU CANADA (C$3,650,064). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$446M
Revenue FY2024
139
Funders on record
C$20M
Grants received
C$344M
Net assets
91/139 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 220 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 220 teaching institutions nonprofits over $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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$366M) Expenses 100 (C$356M) Net assets 100 (C$157M)2018 Revenue 105 (C$383M) Expenses 104 (C$370M) Net assets 104 (C$163M)2019 Revenue 108 (C$396M) Expenses 108 (C$386M) Net assets 128 (C$202M)2020 Revenue 107 (C$391M) Expenses 113 (C$402M) Net assets 116 (C$182M)2021 Revenue 101 (C$369M) Expenses 105 (C$376M) Net assets 147 (C$230M)2022 Revenue 109 (C$399M) Expenses 112 (C$400M) Net assets 181 (C$284M)2023 Revenue 120 (C$437M) Expenses 118 (C$421M) Net assets 195 (C$307M)2024 Revenue 122 (C$446M) Expenses 121 (C$429M) Net assets 219 (C$344M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (121)Net assets (219)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 32% · 2019 30% · 2020 31% · 2021 32% · 2022 31% · 2023 29% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 208 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$9.3M
’17
C$13M
’18
C$10M
’19
−C$11M
’20
−C$6.8M
’21
−C$879k
’22
C$16M
’23
C$16M
’24
3.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 52 funders to 56 funders, grant income fell C$3.9M → C$1.8M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Astley Family Foundationunclassified
C$575k
William Birchall Foundationunclassified
C$500k
Mistera Foundationunclassified
C$400k
Abundance Canadaunclassified
C$364k
Walker Wood Foundationunclassified
C$178k
Aqueduct Foundationunclassified
C$137k
Makeway Foundationunclassified
C$120k
Canada Givesunclassified
C$107k
funders
52
54
60
60
58
59
56
48

From the CRA filings of WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 139 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

WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY.

19%
largest funder
39%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 31% · 2019 24% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — 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

39% of WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

81% of WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

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 139 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$137M
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24
  • 31% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY

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

King's University College at the University of Western Ontario73%Nipissing University71%Queen's University at Kingston70%Victoria University70%University of Ottawa / Université D'Ottawa69%Renison University College69%Carleton University68%Brock University68%

Nationally

Simon Fraser University75%Trinity Western University74%King's University College at the University of Western Ontario73%University of Northern British Columbia72%The University of Lethbridge71%Nipissing University71%University of the Fraser Valley71%Queen's University at Kingston70%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 3%Fundraising 1%

Governance

35
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY?
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY (Ontario) receives grants from 139 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$19,602,325 to it, the largest being EASTERN SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERN CHURCH IN CANADA / SYNODE DE L'EST DE L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE AU CANADA (C$3,650,064). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 139 organizations giving C$19,602,325 in grants to WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY, 91 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY?
EASTERN SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERN CHURCH IN CANADA / SYNODE DE L'EST DE L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE AU CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$3,650,064 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

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 139 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