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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

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.

C$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
274
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$342k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 274 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k197 grants · C$762k
  • C$10k–50k56 grants · C$1.2M
  • C$50k–250k18 grants · C$2.0M
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$999k
C$5,374
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$110M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Toronto International Film FestivalC$341,969
Soulpepper Theatre CompanyC$338,137
Tafelmusik Baroque OrchestraC$319,039
National Youth Orchestra of CanadaC$231,555
Canadian Film CentreC$205,669
Art Gallery of HamiltonC$199,041
Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video FestivalC$193,608
Royal Conservatory of MusicC$143,531
Textile Museum of CanadaC$115,230
Tarragon TheatreC$110,450
Drayton EntertainmentC$106,497
Canadian StageC$99,307
Toronto Children's ChorusC$97,833
Fringe of Toronto Theatre FestivalC$77,944
Cantabile Choirs of KingstonC$67,390
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$35M · 286 repeat orgsC$536k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

286 repeat relationships — 267 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

286
35

Total granted

C$35M
C$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+17%

Still filing today

97%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • TI
    Toronto International Film Festival
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.7M · revenue +2%
  • AG
    Art Gallery of Hamilton
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +54%
  • RC
    Royal Conservatory of Music
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SF
    Shaw Festival Theatre Endowment Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · C$313k · revenue -1287%
  • IE
    Idea Exchange
    one grant, 2022 · C$16k
  • EI
    Elmer Iseler Singers
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k

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
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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2
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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3
Eclipse Theatre Company

Eclipse Theatre Company develops new Canadian musicals in live venues.

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4
The Theatre Museum Corporation

The theatre museum corporation canada's theatre museum fosters public awareness of our performing arts heritage with online and in-person programming including exhibitions public learning events and caring for artifacts in its collection.

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5
Repercussion Theatre Theatre Repercussion

Producing professional classical theatre for canadian audiences

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6
Birdland Theatre Inc.

Toronto-based performing arts company committed to ensemble collaborations through its work with guest artists, sponsors and the community.

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7
Syrinx Concerts Toronto

Syrinx was established to produce and promote concerts featuring canadian artists and composers by producing an annual series of chamber concerts.

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8
The Musical Stage Company

Produce mainstage musicals and digital concerts enriching the toronto arts scene. - offer ticket subsidies for students. - provide workshops to students at the performances and educational study guides. - offer a free training program for…

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9
The Purple Theatre Company

Produced original canadian theatre

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10
The Gallery Players of Niagara

Live and virtual chamber music concerts

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11
Orillia & District Arts Council

Enhance and promote visual literary and performing arts through events public art advocacy and education

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12
Ontario Arts Council/Conseil Des Arts De L'ontario

Since its inception in 1963 the ontario arts council (oac) has played a vital role in promoting and supporting the development creation and production of the arts for the enjoyment and benefit of all ontarians. the oac has fostered the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prologue to the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Design Exchange. 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

318 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. 318 of the 328 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
309/318
Grantees still filing
208/318
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 budgetSoulpepper Theatre Company — C$3,574,390 over 8y, 14% of budgetToronto International Film Festival — C$2,682,241 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCANADIAN FILM CENTRE — C$2,373,189 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetTafelmusik Baroque Orchestra — C$2,251,227 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetArt Gallery of Hamilton — C$1,478,568 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetKitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra Association — C$1,073,008 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetRoyal Conservatory of Music — C$1,053,460 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNational Youth Orchestra of Canada — C$924,441 over 8y, 12% of budgetTarragon Theatre — C$825,758 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetToronto Children's Chorus — C$752,329 over 8y, 16% of budgetCanadian Stage — C$748,555 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetDrayton Entertainment — C$712,756 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetWindsor Symphony Orchestra — C$464,206 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetInside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival — C$446,784 over 8y, 13% of budgetThousand Islands Foundation for the Performing Arts — C$433,609 over 8y, 27% of budgetGardiner Museum — C$416,115 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHamilton Philharmonic Orchestra — C$390,310 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetKingston Symphony Association — C$325,283 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetTextile Museum of Canada — C$306,553 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetThe Grand Theatre — C$288,225 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetArt Gallery of Windsor — C$271,172 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetAgnes Etherington Art Centre — C$267,406 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetArt Gallery of Burlington — C$265,579 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetOttawa Symphony Orchestra — C$264,312 over 8y, 12% of budgetYoung People's Theatre — C$255,334 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCantabile Choirs of Kingston — C$229,984 over 8y, 29% of budgetTapestry New Opera — C$225,337 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetFringe of Toronto Theatre Festival — C$196,744 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetOttawa Art Gallery/ La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa — C$191,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetToronto Summer Music Foundation — C$189,905 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetArt Gallery of Guelph — C$188,481 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetLondon Symphonia — C$178,633 over 7y, 10% of budgetMcIntosh Gallery — C$173,629 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOpera Atelier — C$168,375 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTheatre Passe Muraille — C$158,444 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetFestival of the Sound — C$154,026 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetOttawa Chamber Music Society — C$152,950 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetPower Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre — C$151,187 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetQuinte Ballet School — C$146,551 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetFactory Theatre Lab — C$138,696 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetVibe Arts — C$134,710 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetArts Etobicoke — C$127,630 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCanadian Children's Book Centre — C$127,119 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBrott Music Festival — C$125,716 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPrologue to the Performing Arts — C$123,339 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetBlyth Festival — C$116,623 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCanadian Art Foundation — C$109,625 over 7y, 67% of budgetSchool of Dance (Ottawa) Pre-Professional Programme — C$107,781 over 8y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds Soulpepper Theatre Company ↗
  • Who funds Toronto International Film Festival ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FILM CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds Art Gallery of Hamilton ↗
  • Who funds Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra Association ↗
  • Who funds Royal Conservatory of Music ↗
  • Who funds National Youth Orchestra of Canada ↗
  • Who funds Tarragon Theatre ↗
  • Who funds Toronto Children's Chorus ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Stage ↗
  • Who funds Drayton Entertainment ↗
  • Who funds Windsor Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival ↗
  • Who funds Thousand Islands Foundation for the Performing Arts ↗
  • Who funds Gardiner Museum ↗
  • Who funds Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds Kingston Symphony Association ↗
  • Who funds Shaw Festival Theatre Endowment Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Textile Museum of Canada ↗
  • Who funds The Grand Theatre ↗
  • Who funds Art Gallery of Windsor ↗
  • Who funds Agnes Etherington Art Centre ↗
  • Who funds Art Gallery of Burlington ↗
  • Who funds Ottawa Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds Young People's Theatre ↗
  • Who funds Cantabile Choirs of Kingston ↗
  • Who funds Tapestry New Opera ↗
  • Who funds Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival ↗
  • Who funds Ottawa Art Gallery/ La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa ↗
  • Who funds Toronto Summer Music Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Art Gallery of Guelph ↗
  • Who funds London Symphonia ↗
  • Who funds McIntosh Gallery ↗
  • Who funds Opera Atelier ↗
  • Who funds Theatre Passe Muraille ↗
  • Who funds Festival of the Sound ↗
  • Who funds Ottawa Chamber Music Society ↗
  • Who funds Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre ↗
  • Who funds Quinte Ballet School ↗

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 George Cedric Met…Kingfisher FoundationThe K. M. Hunter Char…The Mary-Margaret Web…The Catherine and Max…The Council for Busin…Hal Jackman FoundationLindy Green Family Fo…The Slaight Family Fo…The Bulmash-Siegel Pr…The McLean FoundationMcLean Smits Family F…
The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable FoundationON35.9× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Kingfisher Foundation · The K. M. Hunter Charitable · The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · The Council for Business and the Arts in Canada · Hal Jackman Foundation · Lindy Green Family Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundation · The McLean Foundation · McLean Smits Family Foundation

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 328 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 890856370:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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