Ontario · Registered charity
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY (Ontario) receives grants from 123 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$50,841,522 to it, the largest being CANADIAN OPERA FOUNDATION (C$23,742,000). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY's funding base is broadening — from 60 funders to 63 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 44 arts nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 Lewis Cohen Family Foundationlocal
- The Goldberg Family Foundationshared funders
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 17% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 24% · 2021 32% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% 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 60 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose C$4.9M → C$5.2M.
From the CRA filings of CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 123 funders by total. 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
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 73%; 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 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 50% · 2019 46% · 2020 34% · 2021 32% · 2022 27% · 2023 50% — 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
54% of CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
97% of CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY'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$81k 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 123 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundationshared fundersON · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- The Lewis Cohen Family FoundationlocalON · funds 7 organizations near you
- The Goldberg Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- McLean Smits Family FoundationlocalON · funds 15 organizations near you
- The Delaney Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you
- The Four Oaks Foundationshared fundersON · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Rotary Club of Toronto Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 15 organizations near you
- M.E.H. FoundationlocalON · funds 8 organizations near you
- The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundationshared fundersON · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Donald Bainbridge Family FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canadashared fundersON · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
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 CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 20% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY?
- CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY (Ontario) receives grants from 123 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$50,841,522 to it, the largest being CANADIAN OPERA FOUNDATION (C$23,742,000). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 123 organizations giving C$50,841,522 in grants to CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY?
- CANADIAN OPERA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$23,742,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY 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 123 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