Ontario · Registered charity
CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA
CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA (Ontario) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$291,942 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA PARKER FOUNDATION (C$180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$399M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- C$292k
- Net assets
- C$440M
What Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada does
Ongoing programs
The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to 'foster and promote the study and enjoyment of and the production of works in the arts.' The Council supports support Canadian artists authors and arts groups and organizations through grants services initiatives prizes and payments. This support allows them to pursue artistic expression create works of art and promote and disseminate the arts and literature. Through its arts funding communications research and promotion activities the Council fosters ever-growing engagement of Canadians and international audiences in the arts. The Council’s Public Lending Right (PLR) program makes annual payments to creators whose works are held in Canadian public libraries. The Council’s Art Bank operates art rental programs and helps further public engagement with contemporary arts through exhibition and outreach activities. The Council is responsible for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO which promotes the values and programs of UNESCO to…
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from C$448M to C$597M (+33%).
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 92% · 2018 82% · 2019 94% · 2020 91% · 2021 92% · 2022 91% · 2023 94% · 2024 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell C$62k → C$33k.
From the CRA filings of CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA’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
CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 78% · 2019 66% · 2020 80% · 2021 59% · 2022 81% · 2023 75% — 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
38% of CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 5 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$30k 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.
Government revenue CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 93% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA?
- CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA (Ontario) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$291,942 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA PARKER FOUNDATION (C$180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 12 organizations giving C$291,942 in grants to CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA?
- VIRGINIA PARKER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA 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 12 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register