Ontario · Registered charity
CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION
CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION (Ontario) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$178,984 to it, the largest being Waterloo Region Community Foundation (C$99,387). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION's revenue fell 94% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,070 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 Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Astley Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontariolocalportfolio 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 1% · 2018 30% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 77% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (28% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$43k → C$4k.
From the CRA filings of CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION’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
CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 54% · 2019 57% · 2020 51% · 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$149k 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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Astley Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontariolocalportfolio matchON · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kitchener Rotary Club Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The K. M. Hunter Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stonefields Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Kitchener Grand River Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and ArealocalON · 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 CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 15% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION?
- CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION (Ontario) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$178,984 to it, the largest being Waterloo Region Community Foundation (C$99,387). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$178,984 in grants to CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION?
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$99,387 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATESCAPE WATERLOO REGION 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 5 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