Ontario · Registered charity
THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE
THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE (Ontario) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$397,087 to it, the largest being TORONTO FOUNDATION (C$218,055). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE has grown faster than half of the 119 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 education in the 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.
- Kingfisher Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Lawrence Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundationlocal
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 90% · 2018 84% · 2019 87% · 2020 68% · 2021 71% · 2022 76% · 2023 86% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (12% 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 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose C$19k → C$108k.
From the CRA filings of THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 55% · 2019 33% · 2020 49% · 2021 56% · 2022 62% · 2023 60% — 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
22% of THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
98% of THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE'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$47k 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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Kingfisher Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Lawrence Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lindy Green Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Youssef-Warren Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The K. M. Hunter Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pitblado Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Norman and Marian Robertson Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- The E & S Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
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 THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 85% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE?
- THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE (Ontario) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$397,087 to it, the largest being TORONTO FOUNDATION (C$218,055). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 19 organizations giving C$397,087 in grants to THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE?
- TORONTO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$218,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE 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 19 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