Ontario · Registered charity
KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (Ontario) receives grants from 56 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,858,337 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES (C$1,414,592). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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.
- Astley Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Grand River Unitarian Congregationlocal
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Regionlocal
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 42% · 2018 43% · 2019 43% · 2020 55% · 2021 74% · 2022 77% · 2023 68% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (24% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 25 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose C$439k → C$762k.
From the CRA filings of KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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 KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 40% · 2019 50% · 2020 35% · 2021 34% · 2022 27% · 2023 30% — 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
45% of KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
99% of KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION'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$969k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 56 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Astley Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Grand River Unitarian CongregationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo RegionlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- The Vaux Family FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Family & Children's Services of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- First United ChurchlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Kitchener-Waterloo Children's Drama WorkshoplocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Project Read Literacy Network (Waterloo - Wellington)localON · funds 2 organizations near you
- St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran ChurchlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of WaterloolocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church of PetawawalocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Congregation of the Resurrection in OntariolocalON · funds 4 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 KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 52% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
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
38% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION?
- KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (Ontario) receives grants from 56 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,858,337 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES (C$1,414,592). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 56 organizations giving C$4,858,337 in grants to KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION?
- UNITED WAY WATERLOO REGION COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with C$1,414,592 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KITCHENER-WATERLOO YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 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 56 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