Ontario · Registered charity
LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK
LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK (Ontario) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$308,908 to it, the largest being Waterloo Region Community Foundation (C$161,591). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK 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.
- Astley Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fundlocalportfolio match
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundationlocal
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 27% · 2018 20% · 2019 41% · 2020 26% · 2021 34% · 2022 41% · 2023 22% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK’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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose C$31k → C$33k.
From the CRA filings of LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK’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
LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 49% · 2019 72% · 2020 65% · 2021 55% · 2022 50% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.
“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
52% of LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK'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$147k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$162k 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.
- Astley Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchON · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fundlocalportfolio matchON · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- Rotary Club of Kitchener Grand River Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Regionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewitt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterlooportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Kitchener-Westmount Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Music Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Centre Wellington Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First United ChurchlocalON · funds 4 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 LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 7% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK?
- LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK (Ontario) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$308,908 to it, the largest being Waterloo Region Community Foundation (C$161,591). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$308,908 in grants to LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK?
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$161,591 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYRICAL LINES EDUCATION NETWORK 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 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