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Winnipeg, MB · Public foundation

Manitoba Arts Council

Provide programs of support to mb arts and cultural organizations and artists.

C$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
351
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$900k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 351 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k149 grants · C$934k
  • C$10k–50k167 grants · C$3.2M
  • C$50k–250k29 grants · C$2.6M
  • C$250k+6 grants · C$3.6M
C$11,250
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Inc.C$900,000
Winnipeg Symphony OrchestraC$900,000
Royal Winnipeg BalletC$820,000
Manitoba OperaC$370,000
Prairie Theatre Exchange Inc.C$355,000
Manitoba Theatre for Young PeopleC$280,000
The Art Gallery of Southwestern ManitobaC$185,000
Théâtre Cercle MolièreC$175,000
Plug-In Inc. (Plug In Institute of Contemporary Arts)C$166,000
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet SchoolC$130,000
Winnipeg International Children's Festival Inc.C$120,000
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra Inc.C$112,000
Winnipeg's Contemporary DancersC$110,000
Winnipeg Folk FestivalC$105,000
Manitoba Arts NetworkC$100,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 77% of grant dollars (C$8.0M). The 23% that went abroad (C$2.4M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 23% of all-years giving (C$2.4M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

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International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.

Winnipeg arts council inc. funds and supports artists and arts organizations. we initiate and promote development of the arts for the people of winnipeg.

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Winnipeg Studio Theatre Inc.

Creating developing and performing original Canadian contemporary plays and musicals. Teaching and mentoring Manitoba theatre students

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3
Virtuosi Concerts (Mb) Inc

Conert series in the city of winnipeg; young artist program

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4
Manitoba Arts Council

Provide programs of support to mb arts and cultural organizations and artists. this includes professional development grants creation and presentation arts education and capacity building. provide grant support to indigenous artists and…

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5
Station Arts Centre Co-Operative

The station arts centre is an art gallery and theatre producing and presenting theatre productions. we showcase local and saskatchewan emerging and professional artists. we host numerous artists talks gallery tours live concerts…

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Moosomin & District Arts Council Inc.

The local arts council brings entertainment groups and performers to rural saskatchewan for the enjoyment of adults and children providing four to five live shows per year and movies throughout the fall and winter months.

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Alliance for Arts Education in Manitoba Inc
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The Manitoba Music Experience Inc.
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Southwest Cultural Development Group Inc.

Provide a venue to support artistic talent in southwest saskatchewan. provide the opportunity for people in southwest saskatchewan to appreciate and view the arts

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10
Arts Ottawa

Supports artists and art organizations

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Theatre By the River Inc.

Theatre by the river is a professional winnipeg-based company that produces theatre that gets you talking. using unique intimate venues we engage theatre professionals to create exceptional live performance experiences. we do theatre for a…

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Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dance Manitoba Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Green Kids Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

121 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 121 of the 299 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
121/121
Grantees still filing
2/121
Grew since you first funded

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

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRoyal Winnipeg Ballet — C$965,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetWinnipeg Symphony Orchestra — C$957,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetRoyal Manitoba Theatre Centre Inc. — C$935,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetManitoba Opera — C$370,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPrairie Theatre Exchange Inc. — C$355,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetManitoba Theatre for Young People — C$330,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetThe Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba — C$189,688 over 1y, 25% of budgetThéâtre Cercle Molière — C$175,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPlug-In Inc. (Plug In Institute of Contemporary Arts) — C$166,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetManitoba Chamber Orchestra Inc. — C$122,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetManitoba Arts Network — C$121,321 over 1y, 24% of budgetWinnipeg Film Group — C$101,562 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetVideo Pool Media Arts Centre — C$96,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA) — C$90,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetArts Manitoba Publications Inc (Border Crossings) — C$90,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGraffiti Art Programming Inc. — C$90,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetUrban Shaman Inc. — C$90,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetManitoba Printmakers Association Inc. / Martha Street Studio — C$88,750 over 1y, 25% of budgetManitoba Craft Council Inc — C$80,750 over 1y, 35% of budgetace art inc. — C$80,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetPrairie Fire Press Inc. — C$76,420 over 1y, 23% of budgetManitoba Children's Museum Inc. — C$74,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGas Station Arts Centre — C$70,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetArt City Inc. — C$65,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetJazz Winnipeg — C$59,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetManitoba Association of Playwrights Inc. — C$56,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetShakespeare in the Ruins — C$56,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPLATFORM centre for Photographic Digital Arts — C$55,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetManitoba Choral Association — C$53,750 over 1y, 19% of budgetTheatre Projects Manitoba — C$52,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAssociated Manitoba Arts Festivals Inc. — C$50,625 over 1y, 42% of budgetWest End Cultural Centre — C$48,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetNAfro Dance Productions — C$48,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetManitoba Band Association — C$48,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGroundSwell Inc. — C$47,500 over 1y, 32% of budgetManitoba Conservatory of Music & Arts — C$45,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetGimli Film Festival — C$40,500 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetRainbow Stage — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPrairie Fusion Arts and Entertainment Inc. — C$37,625 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetContemporary Verse 2 — C$36,420 over 1y, 24% of budgetManitoba Underground Opera — C$36,250 over 1y, 16% of budgetWinnipeg Jewish Theatre — C$35,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSteinbach Arts Council Inc. — C$35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWinnipeg International Writers Festival — C$34,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetThe School of Contemporary Dancers Inc. — C$32,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLes Éditions du Blé — C$32,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTiger Hills Arts Association Inc. — C$31,940 over 1y, 43% of budgetIndia School of Dance Music & Theatre Inc — C$30,500 over 1y, 25% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Winnipeg Arts Council…Thomas Sill Foundatio…The Winnipeg Foundati…The Gail Asper Family…The Asper FoundationThe Jewish Foundation…The Moe Levin Family …All Charities CampaignRichardson Foundation…The Pollard Family Fo…Graham C. Lount Famil…The W.H. & S.E. Loewe…
Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.MB54.2× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Winnipeg Arts Council Inc. · Thomas Sill Foundation Inc. · The Winnipeg Foundation · The Gail Asper Family Foundation Inc · The Asper Foundation · The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba · The Moe Levin Family Foundation - · All Charities Campaign · Richardson Foundation Inc. /Fondation Richardson Inc. · The Pollard Family Foundation Inc. · Graham C. Lount Family Foundation Inc. · The W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation Inc.

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 299 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations advancing education.

Source object 871219440:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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