Ontario · Registered charity
BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE
BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$21,672 to it, the largest being ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO (C$18,675). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,190 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,190 arts nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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.
- Kingfisher Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Good Foundation Inc.shared fundersportfolio match
- Lake Huron Learning Collaborative Inc.local
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 8% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (28% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$3k → C$4k.
From the CRA filings of BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE’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
BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 64% · 2020 84% · 2021 90% · 2022 87% — 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 BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE'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$2k 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.
- Kingfisher Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.shared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lake Huron Learning Collaborative Inc.localON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Wietse and Corrie Van Dolder and Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rotary Club of Port Elgin Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Powell River Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pilkington-Henniger Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawthorne Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pitblado Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waverley Pastoral Chargeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gill Ratcliffe 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 BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2022 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE
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.
Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE?
- BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$21,672 to it, the largest being ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO (C$18,675). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$21,672 in grants to BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE?
- ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO is the largest funder on record, with C$18,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUEWATER SUMMER PLAYHOUSE 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 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