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LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (Ontario) receives grants from 51 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,848,900 to it, the largest being PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATION (C$500,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$2.9M
Revenue FY2024
51
Funders on record
C$2.8M
Grants received
C$924k
Net assets
29/51 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%

Against its field

LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 690 public amenities nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 690 public amenities 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$1.3M) Expenses 100 (C$1.4M) Net assets 100 (C$981k)2018 Revenue 106 (C$1.4M) Expenses 112 (C$1.5M) Net assets 84 (C$828k)2019 Revenue 147 (C$1.9M) Expenses 127 (C$1.7M) Net assets 179 (C$1.8M)2020 Revenue 134 (C$1.7M) Expenses 127 (C$1.7M) Net assets 249 (C$2.4M)2021 Revenue 112 (C$1.4M) Expenses 0 (C$0) Net assets 294 (C$2.9M)2022 Revenue 154 (C$2.0M) Expenses 136 (C$1.8M) Net assets 375 (C$3.7M)2023 Revenue 196 (C$2.5M) Expenses 180 (C$2.4M) Net assets 449 (C$4.4M)2024 Revenue 226 (C$2.9M) Expenses 221 (C$3.0M) Net assets 94 (C$924k)
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Revenue (226)Expenses (221)Net assets (94)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 27% · 2018 23% · 2019 17% · 2020 36% · 2021 65% · 2022 41% · 2023 15% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

52% of LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (5% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 627 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$82k
’17
−C$168k
’18
C$147k
’19
−C$27k
’20
C$1.4M
’21
C$120k
’22
C$63k
’23
−C$125k
’24
3.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$61k → C$438k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Private Giving Foundationunclassified
C$500k
Smith Family Foundationunclassified
C$310k
Good Foundation Inc.unclassified
C$150k
The Lawson Foundationunclassified
C$133k
BenefAction Foundationunclassified
C$61k
Takla Foundationunclassified
C$30k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$14k
Good Neighbours Canadaunclassified
C$12k
funders
11
14
15
14
13
13
14
29

From the CRA filings of LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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

LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM.

18%
largest funder
42%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 30% · 2019 23% · 2020 41% · 2021 26% · 2022 71% · 2023 34% — 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

28% of LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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

81% of LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$224k 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 51 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 LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM reports

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

FY2024C$387k
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  • 13% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

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

Museum London74%London Jewish Community Centre73%London Children's Connection Inc72%London Community Hebrew Day School70%The Orillia Museum of Art and History69%The Learning Disabilities Association - London Region69%The Sharon Temple Museum Society68%The London Cross-Cultural Learner Centre68%

Nationally

Museum London74%London Jewish Community Centre73%Manitoba Children's Museum Inc.72%London Children's Connection Inc72%The Discovery Centre70%London Community Hebrew Day School70%The Orillia Museum of Art and History69%The Learning Disabilities Association - London Region69%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 14%Fundraising 15%

Governance

13
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM (Ontario) receives grants from 51 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,848,900 to it, the largest being PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATION (C$500,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 51 organizations giving C$2,848,900 in grants to LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM?
PRIVATE GIVING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

Play a game about who funds London Regional Children's Museum →

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 51 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