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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

Music Education Charity of Canada

Musicounts is a music education charity that supports urban and rural community organizations and schools throughout canada.

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
99
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$19k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$137k
  • C$10k–50k78 grants · C$1.3M
C$16,000
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DÉLINE GOT'INE GOVERNMENTC$19,000
BIRCHMOUNT COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCILC$19,000
JARVIS COLLEGIATE INSTITUTEC$19,000
THE KAWARTHA YOUTH ORCHESTRAC$19,000
UNCLE GABE'S FRIENDSHIP CENTREC$19,000
OOKNAKANE FRIENDSHIP CENTREC$19,000
Individual grant recipientC$19,000
THE PAS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC O/A THE PAS FRIENDSHIPC$19,000
ÉCOLE ELEMENTAIRE KB WOODWARDSC$19,000
JACK RIVER SCHOOLC$19,000
SCARBOROUGH CONCERT BAND (SCB)C$18,500
Individual grant recipientC$18,500
EL SISTEMA CALGARY MULTICULTURAL ORCHESTRA FOUNDC$18,500
EDMONTON SYMPHONY SOCIETYC$18,500
MI'KMAW NATIVE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY O/A MI'KMAW NAC$18,500
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 87% of grant dollars (C$3.6M). The 13% that went abroad (C$543k) is mapped below.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$781k
British Columbia
C$284k
Alberta
C$273k
Manitoba
C$227k
Quebec
C$197k
Saskatchewan
C$163k
Nova Scotia
C$148k
New Brunswick
C$117k
Northwest Territories
C$113k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$104k
Yukon
C$10k

Beyond home — 13% of all-years giving (C$543k)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore

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

03Your 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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$826k · 22 repeat orgsC$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 94 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
175

Total granted

C$826k
C$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+31%

Still filing today

95%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’23’24
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

  • SA
    St. Aidan
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$150k · revenue +27%
  • CP
    CLAIRLEA PUBLIC SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$105k · revenue +32%
  • OP
    OAKLEY PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$50k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • HR
    HOLY REDEEMERgraduated
    3× · 2018–2023 · C$63k · revenue +53%
  • LF
    LABRADOR FRIENDSHIP CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +83%
  • AC
    Attawapiskat Community Music Program
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k

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

04Your 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 Board of Education of School District No. 5 (Southeast Kootenay)

K-12 School District operating 17 schools

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2
Renfrew County District School Board

We work together to create a dynamic and respectful learning environment that supports and encourages individual achievement and well-being and creates outstanding educational experiences for all our students.

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3
Border Land School Division

The division operates a kindergarten to grade 12 public education system in the south eastern area in the province of manitoba

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4
The Board of Education of School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake)

Delivery of K-12 public education on behalf of Ministry of Education

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5
School District No. 83 (Kwsaltktnéws ne Secwepemcul'ecw)

The Board of Education of School District No. 83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap) is established for the purposes of providing public school instruction for children in kindergarten to grade 12 within its boundaries. Activities and programs…

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6
The Board of Education of School District No. 64 (Gulf Islands)

Public schools and board 99%; scholarships bursaries and awards 1%. sd64 (gulf islands) delivers public education within the boundaries of the school district in accordance with the british columbia school act.

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7
High Prairie School Division No. 48

High Prairie School Division operates to the School Act and offers education to students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 in 12 schools

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8
The Red River Valley School Division

The Red River Valley School Division with the support of parents and the community strives to provide a learning environment that will allow our youth an opportunity to achieve their highest potential in a global environment.

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9
Northwest School Division No. 203

The northwest school division operates 22 schools in 15 communities across saskatchewan's mid-west and offer classes from pre-k to grade 12. we issue scholarships to qualifying students in accordance with the rules of each scholarship. we…

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10
The Board of Education of School District No. 67 (Okanagan Skaha)

To provide learning resources equipment and bursaries to support student academics art and athletic activities for the advancement of education

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11
The Board of Education of School District No. 52 (Prince Rupert)

The Board of School Trustees of School District No. 52 (Prince Rupert) is responsible for the operation of the public school district including Prince Rupert and the surrounding area. The District has about 1 832 school aged students…

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12
The Board of Education of School District No. 45 (West Vancouver)

Scholarships bursaries awards.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conseil Scolaire Du District Du Nord-Est De L'ontario and the most unlike its peers is El Sistema Grey-Bruce (the Big Sound). 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

313 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
64
Early backer (in before they grew)
306/313
Grantees still filing
250/313
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSt. Aidan — C$150,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLAIRLEA PUBLIC SCHOOL — C$104,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY REDEEMER — C$63,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetOAKLEY PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL — C$50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPTARMIGAN ARTS SOCIETY — C$43,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSistema NB - Fredricton — C$42,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYouth Orchestra of Northern Alberta Sistema (YONA-Sistem) — C$42,455 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAHP MATTHEW ELEMENTARY — C$40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFATHER SCOLLEN SCHOOL — C$35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWinnipegosis Elementary School — C$31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — C$28,092 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLocke's Public School — C$28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME COLLEGIATE — C$27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEXIMER AVENUE PUBLIC SCHOOL — C$26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTENNIAL PUBLIC SCHOOL — C$26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLABRADOR FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMACPHAIL MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INC O/A THE PAS FRIENDSHIP — C$24,600 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNorth York Arts: Creative Leaders at Ephraim's Place — C$24,440 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBROADWAY NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE INC — C$24,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJUENES MUSICIENS DU MONDE — C$23,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMINNETONKA SCHOOL — C$22,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLONDON FOOD BANK — C$22,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetECOLE WILLIAM MCDONALD SCHOOL — C$21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST. JOHN'S NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE (FIRS — C$20,500 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetPlace des Arts Music Education Outreach Program — C$20,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRefugee Children — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEcole Primaire Langlois — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Music Centre - Jam Club — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNUSATSUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDoane Uschool Accessibility and Performance Initiative 2017 — C$20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetNDINAWEMAAGANAG ENDAAWAAD INC — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE KAWARTHA YOUTH ORCHESTRA — C$19,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetUNCLE GABE'S FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$19,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMI'KMAW NATIVE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY O/A MI'KMAW NA — C$18,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL SISTEMA CALGARY MULTICULTURAL ORCHESTRA FOUND — C$18,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetPARTAGEONS L'ESPOIR — C$18,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTILLICUM LELUM ABORIGINAL SOCIETY O/A TILLICUM LELUM — C$17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTRINGS ACROSS THE SKY FOUNDATION — C$17,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBAND Together: A Concert Band Initiative — C$16,150 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSoccer Without Borders Community Connect — C$16,075 over 1y, 13% of budgetCENTRE DE PÉDIATRIE SOCIALE DE LA HAUTE-GASPÉSIE — C$16,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetECOLE DU GRAND PORTAGE — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST. PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP SHAGABEC — C$15,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetANGIK SCHOOL — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCollingwood Neighbourhood House - Joyce Jam Session — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Indigo Love of Readin…The Art Starts in Sch…Cwb Welding FoundationVancouver Sun Childre…Construction Foundati…Td Friends of the Env…Stratford Shakespeare…Club des petits déjeu…The Jane Goodall Inst…Sedin Family Foundati…Plant a Seed & See Wh…Child Nutrition Counc…
Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la LectureON69.3× affinity120 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · The Art Starts in Schools Society · Cwb Welding Foundation · Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society · Construction Foundation of Bc (2012) Society · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada · Club des petits déjeuners du Canada - Breakfast Club of Canada · The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation / L'Institut Jane Goodall Pour la Recherche L'Education Et la Conservation de la Faune · Sedin Family Foundation · Plant a Seed & See What Grows Foundation · Child Nutrition Council of Manitoba 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 291 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 2024-07-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under arts.

Source object 106842057:2024-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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