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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

The Council for Business and the Arts in Canada

artsvest is Business / Arts’ signature mentorship and training program with a strong history and demonstrated success in building the capacity of Canada’s cultural sector.

C$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,447
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Canadian Hispanic-Latin American Virtual MuseumC$6,399
SUDBURY PERFORMANCE GROUPC$6,399
THE MULTICULTURAL THEATRE SPACE (THE MT SPACE) INCC$6,399
THE THUNDER BAY NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE AND CENTREC$6,399
SHURNIAK GALLERY INC.C$4,212
MELFORT ARTS COUNCIL INC.C$4,212
YORKTON FILM FESTIVALC$4,212
PAT THE DOG PLAYWRIGHT CENTREC$3,500
TWEEN & COMPANY THEATREC$3,399
H'ART CENTRE OF SMILESC$3,399
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCILC$3,366
SOUTHER ALBERTA ART CALLERYC$2,815
PRINCE GEORGE REGIONAL ART GALLERY ASSOCIATIONC$2,812
REALWHEELS SOCIETYC$2,812
PROPELLER DANCEC$2,812
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.

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$826k
Saskatchewan
C$774k
Alberta
C$706k
Ontario
C$587k
New Brunswick
C$178k
Prince Edward Island
C$126k
Quebec
C$74k
Nova Scotia
C$52k
Manitoba
C$350

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 204 repeat orgsC$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

204 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 187 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

204
593

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+16%

Still filing today

80%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$44k 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

  • SO
    Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Inc.
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$51k · revenue +14%
  • TT
    The Toronto Consort
    3× · 2017–2022 · C$28k · revenue +4%
  • NT
    Nightwood Theatre
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$26k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TM
    The Musical Stage Companygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$17k · revenue +47%
  • NA
    Necessary Angel Theatre Company
    one grant, 2017 · C$14k · revenue +11%
  • OS
    Open Studiograduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$14k · revenue +37%

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
Pacific Coast Stage Company

Nanaimo fringe festival public workshops

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2
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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3
International Theatre Inconnu Society

Presenting a season of theatrical production in victoria bc -working with one local emerging theatre artist annually to develop a presentation

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4
Gallery 7 Theatre and Performing Arts Society

Produce theatre workshops and guest performances

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5
Kindersley and District Arts Council

Artist workshops performing arts

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6
Pivot Theatre Yukon Society

Theatrical productions community actors and writers workshops pivot festival playwrighting competition and literary cabaret.

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7
Eclipse Theatre Company

Eclipse Theatre Company develops new Canadian musicals in live venues.

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8
Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society

The society produces the Vancouver Fringe Festival a 12 day theatre festival each September. The Vancouver Fringe serves as the home for independent performing arts in Vancouver following the Fringe Theatre Movement that spans across North…

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9
The Tir-Na-Nog Theatre School Society

Theatre arts courses & workshops live theatre events guest artists in concert & performance

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10
Kelowna Summer Theatre Festival Society

Promoting and presenting live outdoor theatre to local audiences, providing training and opportunities for emerging artists, enhancing volunteer and youth involvement in theatre arts

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11
Summerworks Theatre Festival
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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John Arts Centre Inc./Centre Des Arts De Saint John Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Nuit Blanche Le Magazine Du Livre. 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

497 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. 497 of the 813 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)
132
Early backer (in before they grew)
485/497
Grantees still filing
335/497
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$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetShakespeare on the Saskatchewan Inc. — C$51,298 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSouthwest Cultural Development Group Inc. — C$36,183 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetThe Toronto Consort — C$27,741 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetNightwood Theatre — C$26,407 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetJayu Festival Inc. — C$25,272 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetGordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre — C$24,038 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSing! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival — C$23,172 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetSUM Theatre Corp. — C$21,996 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSouris Valley Theatre Inc. — C$21,950 over 4y, 11% of budgetCALGARY PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL SOCIETY — C$19,919 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetREGINA FOLK FESTIVAL INC. — C$19,904 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSaskatchewan Express Society Inc. — C$19,894 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEDMONTON INTERNATIONAL STREET PERFORMERS — C$19,449 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Frank Theatre Company — C$18,740 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWATROUS MANITOU BEACH HERITAGE CENTRE INC — C$18,264 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetRIVERVIEW ARTS CENTRE INC. — C$17,966 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAlberta Music Education Foundation — C$17,935 over 4y, 12% of budgetSteps Initiative — C$17,723 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJAZZ IS SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$17,626 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVancouver Asian Canadian Theatre — C$17,283 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetThe Musical Stage Company — C$16,760 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOutside the March Theatre Company — C$15,905 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetThéâtre Bistouri — C$15,759 over 2y, 21% of budgetVICTORIA PLAYHOUSE INC. — C$15,414 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThéâtre Aux Écuries — C$15,373 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetVues d'Afrique — C$15,337 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFAIRY TALES PRESENTATION SOCIETY — C$14,419 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetGuild Festival Theatre — C$14,403 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetNecessary Angel Theatre Company — C$14,349 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCecilian Concert Series — C$14,300 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetTheatre Alberta Society — C$14,168 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLOUGHEED HOUSE CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$14,093 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJamii Esplanade — C$13,892 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetIntrepid Theatre Company Society — C$13,865 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOpen Studio — C$13,849 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNeilson Park Creative Centre — C$13,684 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetChildren's Discovery Museum — C$13,270 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetStudio 180 Theatre — C$13,125 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetYorkton Short Film & Video Festival — C$13,013 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetOrchestra Toronto — C$12,525 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTRE — C$12,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPlaywrights Gulid of Canada — C$12,247 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMoonhorse Dance Theatre — C$12,150 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetToronto Outdoor Art Exhibition — C$12,143 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetVibe Arts — C$11,994 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetChor Leoni Men's Choir — C$11,980 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDESIGN TALKS INSTITUTE — C$11,919 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetToronto Summer Music Foundation — C$11,880 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Rozsa FoundationOntario Arts Foundati…Deux Mille FoundationThe George Cedric Met…Lindy Green Family Fo…The K. M. Hunter Char…The Hamber FoundationConseil des arts de M…The Cole foundation/L…The Bulmash-Siegel Pr…Kingfisher FoundationCraig Foundation
Rozsa FoundationAB34.7× affinity54 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rozsa Foundation · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · Deux Mille Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Lindy Green Family Foundation · The K. M. Hunter Charitable · The Hamber Foundation · Conseil des arts de Montréal · The Cole foundation/La Fondation Cole · The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundation · Kingfisher Foundation · Craig 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 813 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 arts.

Source object 118877471:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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