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LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY

LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY (Ontario) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$75,732 to it, the largest being THE GORDON AND LORRAINE GIBSON FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$30,182). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$481k
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
C$76k
Grants received
C$955k
Net assets
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%

Against its field

LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve10.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

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.

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$568k) Expenses 100 (C$557k) Net assets 100 (C$972k)2018 Revenue 121 (C$687k) Expenses 111 (C$616k) Net assets 107 (C$1.0M)2019 Revenue 99 (C$563k) Expenses 91 (C$506k) Net assets 113 (C$1.1M)2020 Revenue 9 (C$50k) Expenses 33 (C$183k) Net assets 100 (C$968k)2021 Revenue 9 (C$51k) Expenses 31 (C$174k) Net assets 87 (C$845k)2022 Revenue 69 (C$392k) Expenses 52 (C$287k) Net assets 98 (C$950k)2023 Revenue 89 (C$508k) Expenses 89 (C$497k) Net assets 99 (C$961k)2024 Revenue 85 (C$481k) Expenses 87 (C$486k) Net assets 98 (C$955k)
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Revenue (85)Expenses (87)Net assets (98)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: 2017 12% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 93% · 2021 80% · 2022 18% · 2023 4% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

53% of LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,845 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$11k
’17
C$71k
’18
C$57k
’19
−C$133k
’20
−C$123k
’21
C$105k
’22
C$11k
’23
−C$5k
’24
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$4k → C$8k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
The Sprott Foundationunclassified
C$20k
Smith Family Foundationunclassified
C$13k
Fernwood Foundationunclassified
C$5k
funders
1
3
3
2
2
1
1
3

From the CRA filings of LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY’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

LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY.

40%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 44% · 2020 88% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

0% of LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

74% of LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’19
’20
’21
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$8k 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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 393 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 LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY reports

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

FY2024C$5k
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  • 1% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY

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

North Bay Area Museum Society72%Canadian Raceboat Hall of Fame69%The Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society69%The Port Burwell Historical Society69%Lake of the Woods Museum69%Lakehead Transportation Museum Society68%Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston68%Naval Marine Archive The Canadian Collection67%

Nationally

Ladysmith Maritime Society74%Greville Bay Shipbuilding Museum Society73%Cowichan Wooden Boat Society73%The Maritime Museum of British Columbia Society72%North Bay Area Museum Society72%Vancouver Maritime Museum Society71%Vancouver Naval Museum and Heritage Society70%The Port Alberni Maritime Heritage Society70%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 10%Fundraising 29%

Governance

9
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY?
LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY (Ontario) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$75,732 to it, the largest being THE GORDON AND LORRAINE GIBSON FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$30,182). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$75,732 in grants to LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY?
THE GORDON AND LORRAINE GIBSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$30,182 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM & NAVIGATION SOCIETY 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 8 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