Ontario · Registered charity
YMCA Canada
YMCA Canada (Ontario) receives grants from 36 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,485,365 to it, the largest being THE AUXILIUM FOUNDATION (C$385,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
YMCA Canada runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 83 support of religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 83 support of religion 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.
- The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundationlocal
- The Grenadier Foundationportfolio match
- Gordon Butler Bequestportfolio 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 2% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 7% · 2021 2% · 2022 25% · 2023 23% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of YMCA Canada’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (24% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$118k → C$181k.
From the CRA filings of YMCA Canada’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
YMCA Canada has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
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 YMCA Canada.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 82% · 2019 51% · 2020 75% · 2021 37% · 2022 34% · 2023 33% — 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
24% of YMCA Canada's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
YMCA Canada draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 6 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$6k 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 36 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 7 organizations near you
- The Grenadier Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gordon Butler Bequestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Madan and Raksha M Bhayana Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The PepsiCo Canada Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jays Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Diane and Daryl Howard Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kiwanis Club of Riverdale Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Toronto Star Children's Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sony Canada Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlas Graham Furgale Ltd. Employees Charity Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sullivan Family FoundationlocalON · 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 YMCA Canada reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 7% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like YMCA 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.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds YMCA Canada?
- YMCA Canada (Ontario) receives grants from 36 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,485,365 to it, the largest being THE AUXILIUM FOUNDATION (C$385,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YMCA Canada have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 36 organizations giving C$1,485,365 in grants to YMCA Canada, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YMCA Canada?
- THE AUXILIUM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$385,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YMCA Canada 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 36 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