Ontario · Registered charity
CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC.
CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$19,448 to it, the largest being ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO (C$16,318). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC. holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 380 arts nonprofits its size.
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.
- Sudbury Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire de Sudburylocalportfolio match
- The Lougheed Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Clifford and Lily Fielding Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
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 14% · 2018 17% · 2019 18% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 31% · 2023 17% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC.’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$2k → C$2k.
From the CRA filings of CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL 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
CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC.'s grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Sudbury Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire de Sudburylocalportfolio matchON · funds 27 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Lougheed Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 27 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Clifford and Lily Fielding Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Centennial Council 6074 Charitable Trustlocalportfolio matchON · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sudbury #10888 Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sudbury Charities Fundlocalportfolio matchON · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pitblado Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l'OntariolocalON · funds 9 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 CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 20% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL 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
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC.?
- CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$19,448 to it, the largest being ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO (C$16,318). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$19,448 in grants to CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC., 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL INC.?
- ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO is the largest funder on record, with C$16,318 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINEFEST: THE SUDBURY FILM FESTIVAL 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 3 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