Ontario · Registered charity
COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO
COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO (Ontario) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$265,660 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$260,405). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 781 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 781 education in the arts nonprofits under $100k, 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 Kensington Health Foundationlocal
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio match
- Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Incportfolio 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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose C$2k → C$38k.
From the CRA filings of COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO’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
COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 90% · 2019 97% · 2020 96% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
17% of COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
99% of COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO'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. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Kensington Health FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewitt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Incite Foundation for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter Wood Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tony Cesaroni Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fleck Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 6% of FY2017 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO?
- COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO (Ontario) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$265,660 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$260,405). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 10 organizations giving C$265,660 in grants to COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$260,405 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON THREAD: COMMUNITY CHORUS OF TORONTO 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 10 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