Ontario · Registered charity
EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND)
EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND) (Ontario) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$73,054 to it, the largest being THE EVA LEFLAR FOUNDATION (C$43,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND) has grown faster than three-quarters 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.
- Sun-Times - Cfos Christmas Fundlocalportfolio match
- The James Goreski Private Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Markdale Rotary Club Charitable Trustlocalportfolio 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: 2019 39% · 2020 36% · 2021 51% · 2022 80% · 2023 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell C$25k → C$4k.
From the CRA filings of EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 40% · 2019 61% · 2020 98% · 2021 62% · 2022 54% · 2023 69% — 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
100% of EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND)'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$16k 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sun-Times - Cfos Christmas Fundlocalportfolio matchON · funds 18 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The James Goreski Private Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Markdale Rotary Club Charitable Trustlocalportfolio matchON · funds 10 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Conseil des arts de Montréalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Corporation Du Seminaire de St-Germain de Rimouskiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abe and Ruth Feigelson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Pierre Desmarais Belvedereportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Bourbeauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cole foundation/La Fondation Coleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Holland Centre Pastoral ChargelocalON · funds 10 organizations near you
- St Andrew's Presbyterian ChurchlocalON · funds 10 organizations near you
- Beth Ezekiel SynagoguelocalON · funds 6 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 EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 78% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND)
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND)?
- EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND) (Ontario) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$73,054 to it, the largest being THE EVA LEFLAR FOUNDATION (C$43,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$73,054 in grants to EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND), 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND)?
- THE EVA LEFLAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$43,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EL SISTEMA GREY-BRUCE (THE BIG SOUND) 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 2018–2023), and the filings of 7 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