Rainbows for all Children Canada

What Rainbows for all Children Canada does

Rainbows for all Children Canada is a Canadian non-profit organization headquartered in Barrie, Ontario, founded in 1983. It is dedicated to supporting children and adolescents who are grieving, delivering structured peer-group and facilitator-led programs tailored to this population. The organization operates with a small team of 11–50 employees, suggesting a lean, program-delivery-led operating model rather than a large-scale service institution.

No information is disclosed in the source data regarding specific programmatic offerings, pricing, fee structures, technology platforms, or digital products. There is no evidence of a software or technology component — the organization's value proposition appears to rest on trained facilitators and a recognized program model for childhood bereavement. The legal name registered in source materials is "Rainbows for all Children Canada," and a public website exists at https://www.rainbows.ca/, but further detail on online tools, apps, or partner integrations is not provided.

The funding model is consistent with a Canadian registered charity: revenue is generated through grants and donations rather than commercial pricing. The only documented funding event in the dataset is a 2023 community grant of $25,000 from the Energizing Life Community Fund (a Hydro One community grants program). The organization appears to be operationally active based on its inclusion as a charitable recipient in 2023 news coverage, but there are no disclosures of headcount trend, donor base size, total annual inflow, geographic footprint beyond Canada, or named corporate partners.

Name

Rainbows for all Children Canada

Legal name

Rainbows for all Children Canada

Website

https://rainbows.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Rainbows for all Children Canada is a Barrie, Ontario-based non-profit, founded in 1983, that delivers grief-support programs for children and teenagers across Canada.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Bereavement Support Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Parent Support Groups & Peer Networks (EDACALAG)

Keywords

• Youth grief support
• Peer support programs
• Bereavement counseling
• Children grief services
• Nonprofit social services

Headquarters

HQ city

Barrie

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Rainbows for All Children Canada is a non-profit organization that provides peer-based grief support services for children, adolescents, and their families who have experienced a significant loss. Programs are facilitated by trained adult volunteers through group-based peer-support sessions in schools and community settings across Canada, supporting participants through the grieving process.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Peer-support grief program for children and adolescents A structured, peer-based bereavement support program for grieving children and adolescents (and their families), facilitated by trained adult volunteers in school and community settings across Canada.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• The Dougy Center: Pioneering U.S. non-profit offering peer-support groups for grieving children and teens. It is the foundational model of the international Rainbows network and the closest functional analogue to Rainbows Canada's program design.
• Bo's Place: Houston-based non-profit providing free peer-support group programs for grieving children, teens, and adults. Operates the same peer-group model with volunteer facilitators that Rainbows employs.
• Bereaved Families of Ontario: Canadian non-profit offering peer-based bereavement support groups for children, teens, and adults. Operates in overlapping geographies with Rainbows and serves a substantively identical grieving-youth population.

Broad incumbents

• Kids Help Phone: Canada's largest youth mental-health support organization providing 24/7 counselling via phone and text. Although broader in scope, it increasingly addresses bereavement and competes for the same donor and government mental-health funding pools as Rainbows.
• Canadian Mental Health Association: National Canadian mental-health non-profit whose youth and family programs overlap with bereavement support. Competes for the same corporate, government, and individual-donor funding pool.

Regional players

• Kids Grief Support (Alberta): Alberta-based grief support programs serving children and families, representing a regional peer that addresses the same population but in a different Canadian province.
• Hospice Palliative Care Ontario: Provincial umbrella for Ontario hospice providers, many of whom run children's bereavement programs. A natural partner-and-overlap channel for Rainbows within Ontario's hospice ecosystem.

Emerging players

• Camp Erin (Moyer Foundation): Network of free bereavement camps for children and teens across North America. Comparable mission and beneficiary population, delivered via a residential-camp model rather than ongoing peer groups.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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