Ontario · Registered charity
GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY
GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$212,823 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREY BRUCE (C$72,962). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts 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.
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Incite Foundation for the Artsshared fundersportfolio match
- Good Foundation Inc.shared fundersportfolio 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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2021 46% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% 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 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$23k → C$47k.
From the CRA filings of GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY’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
GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 58% · 2019 30% · 2020 29% · 2021 50% · 2022 41% · 2023 43% — 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
83% of GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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 GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY'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$74k 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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Incite Foundation for the Artsshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.shared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sun-Times - Cfos Christmas FundlocalON · funds 18 organizations near you
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Christopher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Music Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Bruce Greyshared funderslocalON · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 20 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 GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 11% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY?
- GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$212,823 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREY BRUCE (C$72,962). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 9 organizations giving C$212,823 in grants to GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREY BRUCE is the largest funder on record, with C$72,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY 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 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