Ontario · Registered charity
Biglake Arts
Biglake Arts (Ontario) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$141,175 to it, the largest being The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation (C$50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Biglake Arts has grown faster 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.
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundationshared funders
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio match
- Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundationshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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: 2023 15% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of Biglake Arts’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. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell C$50k → C$33k.
From the CRA filings of Biglake Arts’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
Biglake Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Biglake Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 99% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Biglake Arts'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$5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundationshared fundersON · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundationshared fundersON · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- West Kootenay Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Incite Foundation for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bennett Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.portfolio 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 Biglake Arts reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 13% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Biglake Arts
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Biglake Arts?
- Biglake Arts (Ontario) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$141,175 to it, the largest being The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation (C$50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Biglake Arts have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 10 organizations giving C$141,175 in grants to Biglake Arts, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Biglake Arts?
- The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Biglake Arts find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 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