Ontario · Registered charity
Fashion History Museum
Fashion History Museum (Ontario) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$228,136 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$220,291). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Fashion History Museum has grown faster than half of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Churchlocal
- Dogwood Heritage Society of B.C.portfolio match
- National Trust for Canada / Fiducie Nationale Du Canadaportfolio 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 50% · 2018 40% · 2019 31% · 2020 43% · 2021 66% · 2022 56% · 2023 49% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of Fashion History Museum’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose C$4k → C$18k.
From the CRA filings of Fashion History Museum’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
Fashion History Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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 Fashion History Museum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 68% · 2021 93% · 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
99% of Fashion History Museum'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$4k 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran ChurchlocalON · funds 16 organizations near you
- Dogwood Heritage Society of B.C.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Trust for Canada / Fiducie Nationale Du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ouellette Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stonefields Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ontario Genealogical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Partners in Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hal Jackman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Audain Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation/La Fondation Canadienne Beaverbrookportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shen Family Charitable 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 Fashion History Museum reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 41% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Fashion History Museum
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Fashion History Museum?
- Fashion History Museum (Ontario) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$228,136 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$220,291). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fashion History Museum have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$228,136 in grants to Fashion History Museum, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fashion History Museum?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$220,291 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fashion History Museum find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
Play a game about who funds Fashion History Museum →
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 6 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