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Guelph, ON · Charitable organization

Musagetes Foundation

Musagetes advances the arts in canada and internationally by supporting the visual literary performing and media arts supporting research on the arts and supporting arts education at all levels of education and in the communities

C$188k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$25k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$156k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE STONEFIELDS FOUNDATIONC$100,000
MITACS INCC$56,128
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPHC$25,000
CONTEMPORARY ART FORUM KITCHENER + AREAC$5,000
GUELPH FILM FESTIVALC$1,500
VOCAMUS WRITERS COMMUNITYC$250
NATIVE WOMEN IN THE ARTSC$134
GUELPH BLACK HERITAGE SOCIETYC$70
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$244k · 5 repeat orgsC$191k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
1

Total granted

C$244k
C$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$183k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • UO
    University of Guelph
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$142k · revenue +18%
  • AG
    Art Gallery of Guelph
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$41k · revenue +19%
  • CU
    Carleton University
    2× · 2017–2021 · C$35k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • HC
    Harbourfront Corporation (1990)
    one grant, 2018 · C$8k · revenue +9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

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.

1
The Guelph Creative Arts Association

Art exhibitions craft shows workshops; operation of guelph artisans store to give local artists/crafters an opportunity to sell art; university of guelph scholarship.

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2
Guelph Arts Council

1) initiate facilitate and/or participate in community arts initiatives that provide opportunities for artists art groups and the community. 2) provide arts- and heritage- related services and information resources to artists arts groups…

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3
Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival

Promoting canadian contemporary dance artists and their audiences with the state of the arts program and venues in different locations by organizing performances arts education activities promoting events and selling tickets.

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4
O a C Alumni Foundation

Scholarships and awards at the university of guelph special initiatives grants programs at the university of guelph

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5
The Guelph Community Foundation

The guelph community foundation and its donors strengthen our community by making grants building and maintaining endowment funds and serving our community as a philanthropic resource and partner. grants are disbursed to qualified donees…

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6
Hillside Community Festival of Guelph

To produce performing arts festivals events and workshops for the purposes of educating and advancing the public's understanding and appreciation of performing arts and to educate artists through participation in such festivals events and…

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7
Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts De L'ontario

Established in 1991 the ontario arts foundation (oaf) encourages and facilitates private giving to the arts by working with donors to establish endowment funds. the oaf administers the arts endowment fund program for the ontario govenment…

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8
The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

KWAG is Waterloo Region's leading public art gallery connecting people and ideas through art with a focus on the best of contemporary culture. For the benefit of current and future generations the Gallery collects preserves researches…

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9
National Turfgrass Research Foundation

Directs and promotes turf research for the benefit of the turfgrass industry and the general public. supported turfgrass research facilities ie. univeristy of guelph.

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10
Art Gallery of Ontario

As a public museum the ago's mission is to bring people together. the ago has a collection of more than 100 000 works which it protects and preserves for current and future generations 4 000 of which are on constant public display.

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11
Art Gallery of Burlington

As a charitable not-for-profit cultural and educational organization we provide Burlington and surrounding areas an equitable and inclusive place to create collaborate and innovate. We deliver thought-provoking exhibitions educational…

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12
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Gallery of Guelph and the most unlike its peers is The Stonefields Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Guelph — C$142,117 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STONEFIELDS FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetArt Gallery of Guelph — C$41,305 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCarleton University — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVE — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART FORUM KITCHENER + AREA — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHarbourfront Corporation (1990) — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUELPH FILM FESTIVAL — C$1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNATIVE WOMEN IN THE ARTS — C$134 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUELPH BLACK HERITAGE SOCIETY — C$70 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Guelph Community …Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
The Guelph Community FoundationON7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Guelph Community Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon

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 13 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under education in the arts.

Source object 858117005:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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