Ontario · Registered charity
AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC.
AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$959,296 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$549,866). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC. holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,067 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Lindy Green Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Kensington Health Foundationlocal
- Kingfisher Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2018 27% · 2019 25% · 2020 38% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 26% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC.’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$42k → C$131k.
From the CRA filings of AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC.’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 79% · 2019 58% · 2020 43% · 2021 64% · 2022 53% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
36% of AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC.'s grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lindy Green Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Kensington Health FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Kingfisher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conseil des arts de Montréalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Youssef-Warren Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lawrence Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 18% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC.
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC.?
- AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$959,296 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$549,866). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 21 organizations giving C$959,296 in grants to AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC., 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC.?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$549,866 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGAINST THE GRAIN THEATRE INC. find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register