Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada
The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k717 grants · C$5.3M
- C$10k–50k2781 grants · C$68M
- C$50k–250k1296 grants · C$115M
- C$250k+105 grants · C$56M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The National Ballet of Canada | C$3,160,000 |
| Canadian Opera Company | C$2,350,000 |
| Toronto Symphony Orchestra | C$2,250,000 |
| Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | C$2,200,000 |
| Vancouver Symphony Society | C$1,920,000 |
| Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal | C$1,725,000 |
| Stratford Festival of Canada | C$1,500,000 |
| Opéra de Montréal | C$1,220,000 |
| Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra | C$1,190,000 |
| Edmonton Symphony Orchestra | C$909,033 |
| Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra | C$871,210 |
| Symphony Nova Scotia | C$825,000 |
| Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (TNM) | C$800,000 |
| Shaw Festival | C$780,000 |
| Ballet BC | C$765,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 0% of grant dollars (C$0). The 100% that went abroad (C$516M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 100% of all-years giving (C$516M)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
1293 repeat relationships — 1293 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 319 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$31M went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”
Backed again, and grew
- TNThe National Ballet of Canada2× · 2023–2024 · C$6.3M
- COCanadian Opera Company2× · 2023–2024 · C$4.7M
- OSOrchestre symphonique de Montréal2× · 2023–2024 · C$4.6M
Funded once
- RWRoyal Winnipeg Ballet2× · 2023–2024 · C$941k
- ADA'no:wara Dance Theatreone grant, 2023 · C$308k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · C$300k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2023–2024.
Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2023–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.