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ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE

ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,815,372 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$3,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$1.5M
Revenue FY2024
9
Funders on record
C$4.8M
Grants received
C$29M
Net assets
7/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 380 arts nonprofits its size.

Operating margin88% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)114% · top quartile

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.

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$8k) Expenses 100 (C$7k) Net assets 0 (C$0)2018 Revenue 149 (C$11k) Expenses 393 (C$26k)2019 Revenue 65 (C$5k) Expenses 175 (C$12k)2020 Revenue 193816 (C$15M) Expenses 2964 (C$200k) Net assets 100 (C$15M)2021 Revenue 74314 (C$5.6M) Expenses 2471 (C$167k) Net assets 137 (C$20M)2022 Revenue 22825 (C$1.7M) Expenses 2432 (C$164k) Net assets 147 (C$21M)2023 Revenue 88092 (C$6.6M) Expenses 2912 (C$196k) Net assets 189 (C$28M)2024 Revenue 20407 (C$1.5M) Expenses 2670 (C$180k) Net assets 200 (C$29M)
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Revenue (20407)Expenses (2670)Net assets (200)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: 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 361 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$773
’17
−C$15k
’18
−C$7k
’19
C$14M
’20
C$5.4M
’21
C$1.6M
’22
C$6.4M
’23
C$1.4M
’24
15
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose C$343k → C$1.0M.

From the CRA filings of ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE’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

ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE.

62%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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.

How long its funders stay

67% of ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

62% of ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE'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$1.8M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$3.0M 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 9 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 ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE reports

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

FY2023C$750k
  • 11% of FY2023 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

10% of spending goes to programs.

Program 10%Management 44%Fundraising 47%

Governance

8
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE?
ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,815,372 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$3,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 9 organizations giving C$4,815,372 in grants to ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE?
Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ESTONIAN ARTS CENTRE 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 9 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