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BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC.

BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$177,124 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$80,490). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$4.1M
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
C$177k
Grants received
C$6.1M
Net assets
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC. runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 380 arts nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 380 arts nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$4.3M) Expenses 100 (C$4.3M) Net assets 100 (C$1.3M)2018 Revenue 92 (C$4.0M) Expenses 92 (C$4.0M) Net assets 155 (C$2.0M)2019 Revenue 89 (C$3.8M) Expenses 89 (C$3.8M) Net assets 196 (C$2.5M)2020 Revenue 61 (C$2.6M) Expenses 61 (C$2.6M) Net assets 242 (C$3.1M)2021 Revenue 54 (C$2.4M) Expenses 54 (C$2.4M) Net assets 282 (C$3.6M)2022 Revenue 83 (C$3.6M) Expenses 83 (C$3.6M) Net assets 248 (C$3.2M)2023 Revenue 92 (C$4.0M) Expenses 68 (C$2.9M) Net assets 431 (C$5.6M)2024 Revenue 95 (C$4.1M) Expenses 83 (C$3.6M) Net assets 470 (C$6.1M)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (83)Net assets (470)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 26% · 2018 32% · 2019 31% · 2020 57% · 2021 60% · 2022 33% · 2023 31% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC.’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (10% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 361 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$0
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C$0
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C$0
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C$0
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C$0
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C$1.0M
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C$509k
’24
9.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$19k.

From the CRA filings of BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD 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

BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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 BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC..

45%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 58% · 2019 31% · 2020 36% · 2021 52% · 2022 47% · 2023 74% — 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

57% of BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

61% of BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC.'s grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$69k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Ontario, across 2 regions.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$109k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC. reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$1.2M
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  • 30% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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board members

Questions and answers

Who funds BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC.?
BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$177,124 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$80,490). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC. have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$177,124 in grants to BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC., 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC.?
Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$80,490 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BURLINGTON THEATRE BOARD INC. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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